Word: bareness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...while few in numbers, greatly surpass both in appointment and convenience those of our Alma Mater. The larger part of the college work is carried on within one large building which is fitted up in a style which is simply startling to one accustomed to the hard benches and bare walls of his own college. The dormitory system pursued, in many respects, resemble that in vogue at Harvard. The central college building is located on a hill over-looking the lake and college grounds. The views from its windows are very fine. This building has a large court...
...News thus comments on the tremendous cheering farce at the Dart mouth game: "The Yale men among the audience now began to assemble on the west side of the grounds, realizing that there was just a bare possibility of winning and that good hearty cheers were needed to give our nine spirit and confidence for the hard up-hill game before them. Up to this point the small Dartmouth contingent had struggled nobly with their complicated cheer, and the Yale rash were wholly inadequate to silence it. But after the sophomores met them squarely on their own grounds shouting with...
...three events, while Sheff. had nine entries and was also successful in three. This puts '85 ahead with 80 per cent.; next comes '87 with 60 per cent., then '86 with 50 per cent., then Sheff. with 44 4-9 per cent., while '84 foots the list with a bare score...
...society (one of the largest in the College) less than half a dozen men were present at that lecture. Does it not amount to an insult to invite earnest and distinguished preachers to come from Boston (thus taking a whole evening from their very busy week) to speak to bare...
...majestic figure of Homer is treated as the Greeks treated the figure of Jove. The grand head has heavy clustering hair and beard, the mighty chest is bare to the waist. The figure is seen in full face, the attitude is self-reliant, commanding, king-like. A staff is grasped in one hand, the other holds the drapery which comes from the shoulders and covers the lower portion of the body and the lower limbs. The modeling of the chest and limb is masterful, the pose of the head majestic. The pale dull red, green and yellow of the background...