Word: modest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...poetic feeling for nature, which finds such varied expression in English literature, is equally apparent in this modest English...
...Macy '99, J. F. Brice '99, and H. James '99. Professor Baker read a letter from Mr. George Meredith which had been written in reply to an article of his in the Monthly, and in which Mr. Meredith gave some supplementary theories on the novel and a modest apology for his shortcomings as measured by public opinion...
...Hoping that you may all find pleasant memories associated with these modest trophies...
...only natural that the friends who have been impressed by the pure life and tragic death of Marshall Newell should come here to think of him. Each year turns out from the mass of youths at this University, leaders, pure, modest and masculine characters. Marshall Newell was one of these-the true type of man. Though poor and with but few acquaintances, from the very beginning he made friends. Reserved, yet companionable-true to the type of wholesome, single-hearted men, he was one of those who leaven our life and whose memory the College rejoices to foster. His character...
...quantity. He might have lived to build a railroad, to be a useful citizen or to have a happy home, but one thing we know, though it had been years later, his death, could not have brought home to his friends with greater force its lesson of a modest and unassuming life. What more can a man do in leaving this world than to give the truth of life to those he loves...