Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lampy, then, who should be very proud of his children, and to the author and the artist, the aforesaid children, who are very modest, our Harvard world and the bigger world outside, too, owe a great debt of gratitude (which should be accompanied with a cash reward) for giving us in so trim a little book the Alice sketches, which make memorable this year's volume of our jester. Dear Lampy (forgive this touch of sentiment: it is genuine), to how many generations have you brought laughter and fun. Not that you are always funny...
...collection can only be estimated. Authorities say that it would bring at public auction many hundreds of thousands of dollars. In other ways its value is inestimable. It far surpasses in every way other gifts to the Library since 1638 when John Harvard founded it with the modest bequest of 370 books...
...modest and straight forward editorial in the February Illustrated stated that the task of the magazine is to be รค record and as far as possible an influence." It records by illustrations and by solid artifices. The really interesting illustrations in this number are those of the old library, of the Cadet. Corps, of a Shelby portrait in the Library, and of the Western colleges with which we are exchanging professors. Among the "recording" articles is none about "the "new Medicine" by Dr. Richard Cabot an extremely clear summary. Another is a description of the Medical School, which reads...
...many Johns of Boston who are straight and clean and brave? The gentleman of the first person, as well as he of the third, whom Mr. Barlow conducts through a Parisian evening in a study of the contrast between Basque impetuosity and English simplicity, pay a very modest price in losing the outside as well as the inside of their pocket-books; in fact, they 'get off easy'; but I don't care about them; I want to know what became of that American boy who danced so well and over whose head the plate was smashed. Was his skull...
...second of a series on "The College Man and Current Problems," is sane and well balanced, but somewhat dull and pointless. Mr. Whitman presents a convincing argument in favor of the training furnished by the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. While Mr. Whitman is convincing, he is over modest, for, if the training is as useful as he says it is, it is safe to predict that the School will do more for the solution of economic and social problems than all the "social workers" and talking reformers combined, though, doubtless, the talkers would claim the credit for each...