Word: modest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cultivate the social as well as the scholarly interests of the members has been the aim of the international organization everywhere. At different places this ideal is sought in different ways; at Cornell, for instance, a residence building has been thought necessary. In this University more modest methods have sufficed. It is still too soon for the full effects of the cosmopolitan movement to be evident; it is not too much to say, however, that it will promote the interchange of students between countries and in some measure aid the cause of international harmony...
...worked here with unflagging energy and zeal, a shining example for his pupils, and an object of love and admiration to all who knew him; while his books have brought to Harvard wide renown in his chosen field of Mediaeval English History both in this country and in Europe. Modest, unselfish and retiring, with the broad outlook and noble charity of judgment which supplement and adorn the highest attainment, he labored steadily onward, never courting prominence or notoriety, but at the same time deeply grateful for the many testimonies of admiration and respect from the world of scholars which poured...
...following inscriptions: "He taught the classics with distinction for twenty-eight years in a secondary school in New York City and won the respect and affection of his pupils by his cheerful patience, justice, and hopeful sympathy. He was simple in his desires, sincere and unaffected in friendship, modest in all relations. This fountain is the gift of his boys, including graduates of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia Universities...
...Advocate begins its current issue with a call for more candidates; but it would seem that the candidates do enough already. So far as the signatures attached to the articles give any sign, candidates have written all the prose of the number with the exception of a modest page of editorial paragraphs, the joint product, we presume, of ten literary editors. The editorials are sensible and good-natured, but a small enough mouse for such a mountain of approved talent...
Captain Burr's modest and straight-forward account of the development of the team, Mr. Watts's survey of the football season, and Mr. Fisher's description of the present condition of the Trophy Room, complete the November tribute to outdoor sports. Mr. A. K. Jones, who rang the College bell for fifty years, is the subject of a brief article with portraits. "Says Butler" is a good character sketch, well within the range of undergraduate observation and handling. Mr. Lippman's "Reply" to Professor Wendell's "Privileged Classes" shows keen and clever fencing without quite coming to a precise...