Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This will be the first opportunity to hear the work of the orchestra with Eugene Modest Alloo, of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who has been engaged to direct the Pierian, as conductor. Under his charge the Pierian has greatly increased its ability...
Another innovation which the Sodality has introduced is the appointment of Modest Eugene Alloo, of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as conductor. Under Mr. Alloo's conductorship the Sodality hopes to give a concert which will be on a level with those given by Mr. Whiting...
...President Taft said at the opening meeting: 'We are modest in our hopes, but that is no reason for thinking that we cannot accomplish that we recommend...
...this institution as a background; the author has treated the life of the youthful offenders with such understanding sympathy that he brought forth many such comments as that of the New York press: "Memory fails to bring to mind a more human and affecting bit of playwriting than this modest and unassuming little piece...
Timely also and much needed is the message contained in Mr. Lodge's "Modest Plea in Defense of the Humanities." While it is neither possible nor desirable to turn education back into the channels in which it flowed at the time of the Renaissance enthusiasm for the ancient world, it is undoubtedly true that the pendulum has swung too far towards the so-called "practical" subjects. Living implies more than efficiency and abundance of material goods; it includes the prime necessity of escaping boredom. Mr. Lodge's plea needs hearing at Harvard, where the number of men concentrating...