Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Last evening's exhibition of up-to-the-minute efficiency on the part of Cambridge's heroic hook-and-ladder huskies was a most welcome diversion to such bored and exam-ridden denizens of the University who happened to be within hallooing distance of the Lampoon Building at the time...
...course this is very little compared with the great work of relief carried on by the Red Cross in hospitals and battlefields, and among the civilian population in war-ridden France and Serbia and Italy and Roumania. However, it brings a thrill of pride to Americans and emphasizes the fact that the present drive for new members is simply another means afforded the people to aid this great cause. --Boston Herald...
...Sodality has again succeeded in obtaining M. Alloo, of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as its conductor. M. Alloo himself, upon being interviewed, stated emphatically that "the Sodality should not discontinue its efforts, since, even in the war-ridden countries of Europe, music has assumed a higher, more sacred, position than ever before...
This critic has stimulating criticisms to make in regard to the danger of an "academic mind" among professors, and concerning the system of intercollegiate athletics. Most imperative, however, is the need pointed out for an awakening of intellectual enthusiasm. And this cannot be adequately done by our present lecture-ridden system...