Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Briggs' remarks were characteristically modest. Lack of space prevents anything further than his brief directions. 1. Trust the office. 2. Come to the Dean and tell him if you are being treated unfairly. 3. Call during office hours or on Tuesday evenings at the Dean's house. 4. Read the regulations; and last of all remember that the office is your best friend, but "The man should seek the office, not the office...
...movement now on foot for the organization of those interested in the work being done by the Prospect Progressive Union in Cambridgeport deserves to succeed. The history of the Union is interesting. The work was begun in a modest way last February. College men were asked to support it with their time and their money, but the response was not very encouraging. Nothing daunted a few energetic spirits went ahead, established the work, and persevered in it. The Union has grown and prospered, until now a very important work is being done and the field is constantly broadening and opening...
...best accomplish having your religion honored in the entire circle of your acquaintance? not by ostentatious professions. Make your quiet yet efficient profession by constant attendance on christian worship and ordinances and by taking your modest port in such associations for religious improvement as have your confidence and sympathy. Follow the leading of your own enlightened conscience by letting no cumulative force of example or persuasio turn you one hair's breadth from what you regard as your duty; by making your own way through college a right line, a straight line in the direct way from earth to heaven...
...more fortunate than her collegiate brother in pursuance of the study of English-for in writing her themes she has ever before her eyes the chance of handing down her name to posterity,- as several of them have recently done in a little publication entitled "English Composition." In this modest book have been collected a number of daily and fortnightly themes, selected as the best and most representative compositions of the different English courses for which they were written. And when we confess that these compositions are far ahead of the work of most of us in originality of thought...
...ancient wooden image of Athena, said to have fallen from heaven, and the sacred olive tree, planted by Athena herself. Throughout the city itself were the temples, altars and idols without number. Yet all this magnificence had no effect on Paul save to stir his spirit, while the obscure, modest altar "to an unknown god" gave him the text to his famous sermon on the Areopagus. It is interesting to note that in this sermon Paul quotes, in the words "For we are also His offspring," from the writings of Eudoxus, the originator of the Epicurean philosophy...