Word: bare
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject discussed under "Topics of the Day" is the high rent charges for college rooms. The arguments advanced in favor of a decrease in rent are to the point, and lay bare the evils brought about by the present high rent. The communication touches the same subject as the second editorial. The Athletic Outlook is a straightforward article on the causes of Harvard's athletic defeats of the last few years and the present outlook, which, according to the writer, is "no more discouraging than any that have preceded...
...lawsuit and while this is pending scores of students are spending their money and inconveniencing themselves-waiting apparently endressly. It is not our purpose to take sides on the question of the law suit. In the first place we have no knowledge of the point in question beyond the bare fact that the university complains that the architect has not finished the building at the specified time, and the architect that the university delayed in awarding the contracts for the construction of the various stories. Wherever the truth of the question may lie, the fact remains the same that...
...excellent in every way with the exception of its verse. The dearth of real poetry of which the editors of our papers are loudly complaining is well illustrated by this number. Of the three contributions in verse, two are of little merit. They are lame in their movement and bare in their thought. The lines "A Picture" are better than the other verse...
...Harvard graduating class numbering 236 only 114 or a bare majority ranked over 70. Of these only 9 ranked over 90.- Dartmouth...
...noble art of self-defence." That the ancients, especially the Greeks, did box, and that most savagely, we know. So far from using gloves to lessen the damaging effects of their blows, or even from using simply the power that nature and training had given to their bare fists, they increased this by tying strips of hard bulls hide round them when clinched, and sometimes even attached nails and lead buckles to these to make their blows more deadly. They also usually, but not always, fought continuously until one of the combatants gave in, "rounds" apparently not being to their...