Word: barely
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stories and a play complete the number. "The Viceroy's Treasure" is bare where it might have been convincing; and it is difficult to determine whether "Upon Thy Children's Children" is or is not farce. The latter begins rather effectively with an Indian legend and ends with an entirely obvious and uninteresting love story, apparently intended to illustrate the ancient theme of the legend. "The Ambassador" is clever, light, and decidedly amusing. Without it the number would be a comparative failure; as it is, Mother Advocate turns into the road for a new volume with at least one good...
...Study of the History of Painting from 1200 to 1900," a series of tables designed to show the student at a glance the relative importance and historical position of an artist, and to relieve the teacher of the necessity of presenting much routine material, such as dates and other bare facts. The outlines will be bound in large folio form and will be issued early next week...
...Boylston and Grays to the present Unitarian Church, where the most solemn services were held, in which Phillips Brooks made a prayer of remarkable power and passion. On January 26, 1893, with the snow deep on the ground, but with the whole University, officers, students and servants standing bare-headed, the funeral procession of Phillips Brooks, perhaps Harvard's most eloquent son, passed through the Yard...
...Then there were no dormitories outside the Yard; the Yard was the centre of all College life. One of the chief temporal ambitions of every student was to room on the Yard; a room in Holworthy being the summit of his hopes. There was very little except the bare necessities in these Yard rooms, but few were carpeted, and almost none contained any such decorations as pictures or casts...
...possible place that might be suggested for the trophies is the large reading room on the first floor. The walls in this room are now rather bare, and could be greatly improved by an attractive exhibition of cups, photographs and trophy cases...