Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...particular, the CRIMSON should give some non-financial reason for continuing its obnoxious liquor advertising. To be sure, the advertisements this year have taken a less disgusting shape than formerly; the brewers have become modest, and no longer flaunt their waers in our faces with an are of rakish conviviality; but why should the CRIMSON hesitate to do what most reputable newspapers and magazines have long since done and expel such advertising altogether? College papers are traditionally idealistic. Some of them have been the pioneer spokemen in movements for civic betterment. Shall the CRIMSON chcose to stand aloof from this...
...Starting on a modest plan in one-half of a large wooden barrack, with an equipment consisting of three rooms separated by wooden partitions, three blackboards, a small supply of paper and pencils, and fifteen textbooks, we began what later developed into a thriving school with somewhat more than 1,700 scholars, 35 teachers and 27 different courses of study. Soon after this, church services were begun in the same barrack. The Roman Catholic priest and the local Lutheran pastor were permitted to hold regular services. In connection with the church services the men organized among themselves a choir...
...Department of Tropical Medicine comes under the Graduate School, and is now in its fourth year. The possibility of securing Professor Strong as its head precipitated its foundation, and funds were secured to carry on the school for five years in a modest way. As this period approaches completion plans should be made for putting the Department on a permanent and adequate basis. The only other School of Tropical Medicine for civilians is that of Tulane University, New Orleans, and it seems to your committee highly desirable that the School be maintained. The tropics are steadily increasing in economic importance...
...past generation of rapid exploitation of the country's resources, has offered some enormous money prizes, the average business man's income is moderate. And though good fortune plays its part and seems occasionally to pour wealth into the lap of its favorites, the average business man gains his modest "competence" by a combination of knowledge, persistence, good judgment in estimating values, and courage in making or seizing opportunity. Everyday business is not an adventurous speculation...
...first place, there was an unusually small proportion of the class present. Again, this is practically the only existing Freshman tradition. Freshmen, here, lead an unusually unmolested existence. They are not called upon to wear caps, or to refrain from sitting on any sacred fence. Even this modest assessment is only in the nature of a loan upon posterity; 1919 itself may some day have a picnic. When the Freshman picture is finally taken, the class can use the opportunity to prove that its oversight was not deliberate...