Word: modest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...such meanness presumptuous; it is a poor return for the readiness with which the football management offered to divide its surplus with them. The foot-ball men want $140 to get a ten-dollar cup for each man on the team and for the substitutes. The request is a modest enough one even if they did not have a cent for buying them. When, however, they have $280, half of which they volunteer to give to the crew, it is contemptibly mean for any one to question their right to what they ask. The excuse crew men offer...
...much difference between it and those on either side, and because some of the expenses, such as theatres and parties, where an increase is made, are for the very luxuries from which the athlete is debarred. This leaves as in the catalogue the columns, Least (assisted), Economical, Moderate (modest), and Very Liberal (well to do), besides three higher grades which need but casual comment. In the lowest grade the estimate for rooms and gas is $44. This must include fuel also, for the author later gives the price of the cheapest rooms as $25 and the least expenditure...
...given by Mr. Leighton are too large, because they include some expenses which a really economical man would never incur, while the estimates of others are inconsistently large. For similar reasons, the totals in the medium grades are not low enough. It is rather surprising to find the term "modest" attached to a grade in which the estimated expense is $1,225. It appears to us that for the vast majority of college men, the 'modest" limit is much below this. Taking the discussion as it now stands, we fail to see that the statements in Professor Palmer's speech...
...Bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, civil engineer, mechanical engineer, bachelor of science in mining and metallurgy, engineer of mines and metallurgist, electrical engineer and analytical chemist, besides higher degrees of M. A., M. S. and Ph. D. In presence of such a collection of high-sounding names, a modest Harvard man stands aghast until he remembers that their value must be taken with a grain of salt.- Cambridge Tribune...
...whole history of experience has been honest, industrious, humble, modest and unassuming over land and sea. I am the greatest pedestrian in the world. I have travelled on foot over 50,000 miles, and over 50,000 miles on sea, and my name has been immortalized, and I have had more than one hundred demonstrations and receptions, but I have not made one cent out of all over my expenses. My next great circular is the Invisible Power of All-visible Powers. I have been to the principal colleges of America the last fifty years...