title: pandas replace (erase) different characters from strings
body: <p>I have a list of high schools. I would like to erase certain characters, words, and symbols from the strings.</p>
  
  <p>I currently have:</p>
  
  <pre><code>df['schoolname'] = df['schoolname'].str.replace('high', "")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, I would like to use a list so I can quickly replace <code>high</code>, <code>school</code>, <code>/</code>, etc.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions?</p>
  
  <pre><code>df['schoolname'] = df['schoolname'].str.replace(['high', 'school'], "") 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>does not work</p>