Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Some modest author anonymously publishes "Thrown Away." He contrasts the ideals of our dreams and ambitions with the mundane facts of war. We are rather surprised, however, to find a news boy suddenly shouting "Extra" supposedly in the midst of a peaceful wood, and one still wonders whether the author was wise in not signing his name to his contribution...
...most instructive discussion of Militarism from the viewpoint of a soldier apeared in the Infantry Journal for November, 1910. Reprints of this may be secured from the War Department. The object of the writer, Captain Crawford, is to induce a wider intelligent discussion of the subject. A more modest aim, fit to be suggested here, is that before anyone discuss Militarism, in or out of print, he learn something of both sides of the question, and not permit hones for the future cause him to neglect to even consider present day problems. AN AMATBUR SOLDIER...
...which could be followed is the Oxford Union--a world famous forum for the discussion of every leading question of the day, a debating ground in which the proven leaders are practically assured of a seat in Parliament. The Harvard Forum of a year or two ago were the modest beginnings of an attempt to follow the famous English model--and incidentally to solve at the same time the ever present problem of the Union. While it is to be hoped that the Forum have not permanently perished under the care of the Speakers' Club, the dispersion of the limited...
...Thayer '14, himself a writer of no mean ability, and W. C. B., Jr., '14 whatever modest person he is, have both reviewed the Illustrated, perhaps the hardest magazine for a literary person to criticise without losing his temper. They have done better than many of their seniors. Both conclude that it needs more skill in presentation, but that there is a great interest in its subject matter. What grave "assistant" would have stopped with this...
...eminent in the subjects that interested him-especially mathematics and chemistry; but what was "the more than modest laboratory in the basement of University Hall"? He was strong and wiry; he rowed bow-oar on the university crew which, through the action of Charles W. Eliot, one of its members, in buying crimson handkerchiefs to make them more easily recognizable, established that color as the token of Harvard...