Word: modest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work is one which appeals especially to college men on account of its intensity and athletic character. We cannot say that Dr. Grenfell himself appeals to college men more than to other people; but we feel no hesitation for that reason in urging Harvard men to hear the modest missionary of Labrador who is achieving with his own hands the regeneration of inhabitants of our own continent...
...special inducement; particular excellence of instruction is merely an added desideratum. The foreigner here, like the Rhodes scholar abroad, wishes above all to learn something about other standards, manners, and customs during the few years spent in our colleges. He is peculiarly receptive to every impulse, though, naturally, modest and awkward in asserting himself in the strange society in which he is placed. Behind this reticence he feels that he would really be gaining what he came for if he could count a circle of American friends, with whom he might to some extent at least participate in ordinary social...
...that the law of averages and the conclusions possible therefrom are in this case decidedly misleading. For instance, there are a great many men in every class, of whom we never hear as accomplishing anything in so-called "undergraduate activities." They may be the men of more modest or even straitened circumstances. They come here for an education in the sense of procuring a firm intellectual foundation and of obtaining the maximum benefit from each course. Everyone will agree that such men form the real backbone of the College. Their cause is eloquent by its silence...
This morning's communication on association football merits the consideration of all undergraduates not already engaged in the spring major sports. From modest beginnings, soccer has steadily progressed in importance among the minor athletics, and this advance has resulted in the engagement for this year of a professional coach. Its position is therefore assured, if it receives adequate support from the undergraduates...
Theodore William Richards, a chemist who has weighed the atoms in his balance; an explorer to whom the elements of the universe have told their secret; a modest seer of things invisible...