Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Both pretty and modest and true...
...sure to produce a Class Song, a thing that is at present much needed in our class. I understand that the '79 Glee Club tried very hard to get a good class song, but, failing in-its attempt, was obliged to accept one offered by a man of but modest musical accomplishments. There are several men in the class who have good voices, and, because they are only Freshmen, they have no chance for the Harvard Glee Club. I can sing a first-rate 2d tenor, and should be most happy to have my name associated with the foundation...
...moral is obvious. Let there be some opportunity given to those who wish to meet an instructor for the purposes of reading at sight; let some instructor deliver a course of lectures in German, in language suited to our modest acquirements; in short, let the same opportunities be given to the man who wishes to study German as to the one who wishes to study French; and it will soon be seen that enough men will make use of the privilege to warrant its being granted...
...college life." nor to " shut themselves up between the covers of their lexicons" (which, by the way, we should hardly have considered as one of the natural instincts of a Freshman), but generally to assert themselves, and make themselves "felt and respected in all places." What a sweet, modest little rosebud the Williams Freshman must be, to judge from all this...
...seems to need roughing less than any class that has come to Harvard for several years. Certainly it is not so painfully "cocky" as are most Freshman classes. Indeed, some of the class seem to feel that upper classmen consider them beneath their notice. For the consolation of such modest men we would say that unless a man gives himself away by knocking at the door of U. 5, or by calling the instructor "professor," he is not looked upon as an inferior being by any except senseless Sophomores. We are all liable to be taken in, at least once...