Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...flawless taste and his inspiriting influence far beyond the walls of Harvard. Whatever he wrote himself bore all the graces of a distinguished literary artist. He leaves Harvard the poorer by a genial personality an unfailing sympathy for the student (too often obscured behind an exterior of mocking shyness), and a fund of knowledge which the college will be long in replacing. Boston Tcaucribt...
...services during the opening days of the mid-year term to talks by members of the Faculty was inaugurated last year, and met with so much success that it bids fair to become an annual custom. Those who are timid of "regular" ministers will perhaps lose some of their shyness before secular professors, deans, and doctors. The others will be much interested to learn the views of Dean Gay and those who follow him. For six days, religion will cast off the cloth and wear, so to speak, the common business suit. In this garb it may well make...
...their competitive work was one of the greatest evils of the University's athletic organization. This practice made the choice of managers dependent upon qualities of no importance in handling teams. Besides, as it worked out, most of the money subscribed came from Freshmen who through ignorance or shyness felt in necessary to give liberally to each of the twelve or fifteen managerial candidates who were sure to call upon them. Generosity is an excellent habit, but being imposed upon...
...past the difference in ages has led to a mutual shyness; the new system of young advisers is the good one. But because their relation to the Freshmen is based on friendship, there is no reason for a lack of parental supervision. Plain talk should be the basis, for it will always endure...