Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...form of military training. The Freshman who elected equitation to satisfy his physical training requirements will find himself, provided he is already on good terms with his horse, galloping down the Post road at a rate that will make the old hero of Put's Hill squirm under his modest tombstone in Greenwich...
...fame of Dean Briggs' anecdote is now extended well beyond college circles. In a recent issue of the "Globe" the leading editorial quoted it (with the original modest fifty dollar stakes now swollen to several hundred!) as the "classic example of the most efficient way to nip threatened blackmail in the bud. The little story appears to be as susceptible of wide application as many an ancient parable. Harvard is to be congratulated for having presided at its birth...
Reprinted below is an editorial from the Boston Post deploring a "restricted Lord Bryce". Why did the Viscount address fifteen hundred Harvard students when he might, have spoken to--well a mere modest million of Post readers? We do not know and it is none of our business. If we were to hasard a guess it would be that he preformed to "confine his words to a limited number of hearers" and just why he would not do so we have yet to discover. "Was it not a mistake?", asks the Post, as if the Viscount or the University were...
...plans for the town, there is a set of photographs of scenes in the war area, including the ruins and temporary barracks of the Pinon of today. Contrasted with the latter are the architect's drawings for the new buildings of the model village, which are planned to be modest and artistic, befitting a small farming community...
...successful. But instead of being welcomed by the world, they are not infrequently regarded as invaders and intruders. Others, quite willing to resist the lure of the great world, are contented to shut themselves up within a voluntary ghetto, to discharge their duties of citizenship in a humble and modest manner, in order to be able to live their own life as Jews. But instead of appreciation for their spirit of devotion and self-sacrifice, they often bring upon themselves misunderstanding and suspicion, Still others demand their full rights as men and insist also upon their full rights as Jews...