Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...petition sent to the Corporation, asking for a spring vacation, has not yet been heard from. It seems that the Faculty ask only for the whole of Fast Day week, - a week at present partly broken up, - which is certainly a very modest request. But there is some fear that if this week is allowed us, a week will be taken from the summer vacation, - that long recess which has lately been one of our greatest glories. A number of men who live beyond the Ohio are induced to come to Cambridge, in preference to any other Eastern college...
...College of the City of New York has put forth an organ entitled The College Echo. It is not for such modest persons as ourselves to speak in any terms whatever of a paper which is capable of breaking forth in strains like the following...
...scholler shall goe out of his chamber without coate, gowne, cloake, and every one everywhere shall weare modest and sober habit, without strange ruffian like or new fangled fashions, without all lavish dress, or excess of apparel what soever: nor shall any weare gold and silver or such ornaments, except to whome upon just ground the President shall permit the same, neither shall it be lawfull for any to weare long haire, locks, or foretops, nor to use curling, crispeing, parteing or powdering theire haire...
...Acta Columbiana has a correspondent in Princeton who has but one trait that is praiseworthy. He is modest, although his command of the English language is limited. He fills five columns with trivial events of life at Princeton, and concludes: "I hope that those who have a poor opinion of the College from reading this letter will lay the blame to the writer." We shall take him at his word...
MILTON."SKIP the poetry." Chum's eyes were weak, after the midyear grind, and I was reading the Crimson to him as he sat, with his back to the fire, gazing partly into vacancy, and partly at a photograph of one of Raphael's Madonnas, which adorned our modest study. We had read all about the grievances of the Memorial Hall victims which are almost as enlivening as the old plank-walk appeals; all the discussions intended to prove that a man who wears a clean shirt insults a man who does not, or (and to the latter opinion...