Word: baring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...omit one simply on account of a word which is not used in society, is certainly straining the point a little. It is like the use of "limb" for "leg," "retire" for "go to bed," and other similar absurdities, and reminds me of Moliere's prude, who had the bare limbs in pictures carefully covered...
Dark rocks that yesterday were bare...
...recently introduced method of getting out books is cumbrous and unpleasant; but of course we poor undergraduates are not expected to see its merits, as, indeed, we do not, though its faults are patent to all. The increasing interest in the study of history in this College has laid bare another defect in our Library. Of what works we have duplicate sets (Bancroft, for example), only one set is reserved, so that some man gets hold of the other and holds it till after examination. If we are informed rightly, there is but one copy of Luden...
...think a great deal of good will be done. If we are to have new recitation-rooms, they ought to be made with all the improvements that the art of building has attained and that experience can suggest. If our present recitation-rooms are poorly ventilated and lighted, have bare walls and hard benches, let us hope that the new ones will be light, airy, comfortable, and attractive...
...approaching exhibition of etchings at Sanders Theatre by the Art Club, and the lecture by Professor Norton, seem to us deserving of more than the bare statement of facts given last week. It is to be conducted in the same manner as one which Professor Norton gave, along with a lecture on etchings, at Parker Memorial Hall several years ago. The interest in the Art Club has greatly increased among its members, and we feel convinced that this exhibition will tend to arouse a similar interest among the other members of the University. The exhibition is not to be open...