Word: rids
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...team, however, continued in practice and braced a little, but not enough to get back into the good graces of the students. Some of the lacrosse men themselves were glad enough to have their association abolished, for they perfectly understood the cause of so doing, and wished to rid the association of an obnoxious element which in a measure was responsible for the chronic defeat met with everywhere. No objection whatever is offered to their reorganization in the fall, and the chances are that if the obnoxious element is kept out, and the right men obtain control, lacrosse will once...
...chum's 'twas - by the rid...
...regard as an impertinence your intrusion of yourselves into a dispute-declared by me to be private between Mr. HI. - Phillipps and myself, and I am now glad to be rid of you, whose return for the faithful work I have given you (and others), is this present censorious caballing against...
...last I was rid of her, and my chum took me over to where Amy and the Yale man were standing, and introduced me. "Your fame has gone before you," said she, "and I have heard Cousin Dick here tell about you so much that I feel well acquainted with you." I mentally voted my chum a remarkably good fellow, and perhaps smiled a little smile of satisfaction, as the Yale man stalked off, looking as sour as if we had won the last race at New London. We waltzed (not the Yale man and I) and promenaded, and promenaded...
...impossibility to do himself justice, - a fact that the rank-list will probably bring to light, - and not a few broke down under the pressure. This mixed system of hour and mid-year examinations is, then, very unsatisfactory, if not pernicious, in its result; and one way of getting rid of the difficulty is to have no hour examinations, and give all the marks on the mid-years and annuals, but with the time for the same reasonably extended...