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...know that food is an important issue, but we don’t have a solution right now,” Cline says. “We are looking to explore if there is some modest thing we can do, but nothing will be ready by the opening celebration in the fall...
...while Cross has achieved such individual accomplishments this year, she remains modest and highlights the team victory at Ivies as one of the biggest successes of the year...
...modest arena erupted, a sea of Crimson specked with the maroon and gold of Eagles fans but roaring nonetheless...
...this vernacular habit? Benjamin Franklin called it “modest diffidence,” advising orators to avoid “the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion; but rather say, I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons; or I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken.” A spoonful of humility, Franklin argued, helps the assertion go down...
...College’s Handbook for Students stipulates that “Harvard permits undergraduates to undertake modest levels of business activities on campus, subject to approval by the Harvard College Business Advisory Committee.” The implications of this regulation has threatened to trip up a few of the young start...