Word: modest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Simple-hearted, modest-hued...
...modest blooms of early prime...
Freshmen - Modest visiting-cards; note-heads on which to write the first letter home to mamma; envelopes, with name and number of room, to demoralize the village postmaster...
DEAR SIR, - You said a little while ago that it was very kind of the Faculty to let us know so early when the dreadful examinations were coming. Do you suppose the Faculty would mind if I made a modest suggestion about the arrangement and order of the examinations? I once thought of calling on the President and telling him of it verbally, but some one said I need not be discovered if I wrote to your letter column; and I prefer to be incog, at any rate until I see whether the Faculty will adopt my plan...
Popularity, did you say? Humbug! Spider is not unpopular because he gets high marks, but because he talks about them. Low marks do not hurt a fellow much, but high marks will do him good, if he is modest about them. But it is unkind to accuse me of truckling for popularity. I was talking about the system. Any system that breeds such fellows as Spider is an unmitigated evil...