Word: barest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regards class feeling in the early part of the course, it is proper and necessary to speak of hazing; and a very few words will suffice. The wild reports that have been circulated through the newspaper world within a few years have had only the barest foundation in fact. The unparalleled atrocities and so on have consisted in a quiet call upon some unwary freshman, a reading of some Greek or Latin author to the company by their unwilling host. probably from a recumbent position upon the table, and, finally, an invitation given him to retire to his couch...
...hours later I had strolled down to the pier, and was watching the little yachts and row-boats gayly starting out with their loads of fishing and picnic parties, when father and daughter came walking down from the hotel together. Mr. Carlin passed me with the barest recognition, but Bertha withdrew her arm from his and stopped short to speak with me. He made no remark but addressed himself to the old skipper of the Rosa, a dainty little yacht, some twenty-four feet or so from stem to stern, and asked him if his boat were yet engaged...