Word: modest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Football, like other sports, is taking a modest place in the scheme of young men's activities. Yet what football there is, will undoubtedly be well worth watching. In the middle ages the CRIMSON players used to shudder at the Eli menace. Today "the informals," those loyal survivors of the sport in the University, are facing a foe more formidable than the Bulldog in his halcyon days. Whereas "All American" elevens have in the past been mythical, they may in the near future be actual organizations. Each military cantonment plans to have its team...
...review at the United States Naval Radio School in Cambridge which took place last Wednesday, marked an extraordinary growth from its rather modest opening on April 15 to the present organization, which musters about 1400 men, with new comers every day from all parts of the country...
...further feature of the need for the careful assurance of our connections with the Latin-American republics is the need for a careful observation of their long and sparsely populated coast lines. The difficulty of patrolling these shores with the modest naval equipment of many of these republics is quite obvious; and the danger which may be presented by the use of certain strategic points along the South Atlantic and Caribbean shores are of course of prime importance in any campaign against roving commerce raiders and submarines...
...Harvard University have thus far aroused themselves from their comfortable state of lethargy. . . . Will it take the very rumble of the enemy's guns to convince them? . . . Ordinary peace-time excuses are no longer excuses" Shades of Patrick Henry! Here is the CRIMSON transformed from a modest advocate of universal preparedness for social efficiency into a war conjurer. These words are wonderfully like the cries of other people in 1914: The enemy is coming! We are being attacked! Our national security is endangered...
...been in proper proportion to the remarkable prosperity of this country. Never before have wealthy Americans, who have accumulated many times an ordinary fortune during the last two years, made such liberal donations to educational and charitable institutions. Columbia University shocked the public when President Butler asked for the modest sum of thirty million dollars. Already nearly two thirds of this amount has been promised and the remainder is practically assured. Other colleges and universities all over the country are asking for gifts to satisfy their respective needs. Now Harvard has appointed a Harvard Endowment Fund Committee to raise...