Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That much abused figure of the past.--the modest-minded individual fresh from a bath who wrapped himself in a blanket before answering the telephone.--is likely to find his precaution a painful necessity if the results of future experiments in wireless photography keep pace with the present. While it is not possible to see by radio, the great advance that is being made in reproducing pictures through the air is shown by last Saturday's achievement, when a photograph transmitted by wireless from Rome was received and reproduced in Bar Harbor forty minutes later and published...
...tutorial system is in effect only in one division, and is barely out of the embryonic state. Nevertheless, it has already justified its establishment, an is now in the position where one begins to question: "How did we ever get along without it?" With this good start, a modest forecaster anticipates the extension of the tutorial system to practically all departments. The problems are not everywhere similar but tutors, when possessed of proper qualifications, both of mind and character can effect in the student a fuller appreciation of intellectual riches than any other single factor. And this is over...
...inference is that Yale has found the faculty advisor system Inadequate if not useless, an evaluation of its merits as true at Harvard as at Yale. The advisors frequently either know less than the advisee about the problems of the curriculum or are quite as modest as he in advancing their ideas. Sometimes, too, the advisor turns dictator, forcing the student to take a course blindly, "for his own good". But in each case the effect is the same: having "ended" his troubles by putting down certain marks on a card, the undergraduate either wonders for the ensuing three years...
...American people. Even 300 millions might seem to come under this head--a judicious stoppage of the leaks in the income tax might easily account for this sum. Unfortunately the Soldiers' Bonus bill now before the Senate fails--despite Senator McCumber's optimism--to confine itself within these modest limits. If we are to believe Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, the payments for the first two years will come to at least 850 millions. Past experience has shown that the estimates of those who foster large scale expenditure are apt to err upon the slender side. In this case...
...same on both sides of the Atlantic. But there's one great difference; and that is the readiness of the young men on this side to undergo the horrors of journalism, and daily journalism at that. Oxford and Cambridge have each their weekly student paper; but they are modest affairs, edited secretly by a single shamefaced man in his own rooms, printed in some obscure den behind a hotel, and read (or shall I say circulated?) by a few hundred persons...