Word: modicums
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Some people, whose sense of orderliness is all enveloping, have spent a great deal of time, much more worry, and a modicum of intelligence on the problem of what to call the present war. Quite irrespective of the fact that war is fought as a vital mode of justice to preserve the living age, rather than as a spectacle to be duly nominated and recorded in history, the more important fact remains that wars are not named by those who fight them...
Democracy is not the unmixed good which this letter might seem to account it. If democracy at Harvard would bring about a modicum of tolerance, tolerance of ideas of creed, social standing, intellectual ability, then democracy ought to be our aim. If it would bring about a closer relation of professor and student, a crying need at Harvard, it is true that the experiment of the Freshman Dormitories should be carried further. At all odds, a college less democratic than Harvard is hardly conceivable. JACOB DAVIS...
...students of 1798 "were obliged to go to the kitchen door (of Commons) with their bowls or pitchers for their suppers, where they received their modicum of milk or chocolate in their vessel, held in one hand, and their piece of bread in the other, and repaired to their rooms to take solitary repast...
...never fail to devote so much time to their studies, nor swerve in their duty. Thus, as it were, wedging their minds between two rigid walls of time they learn to accomplish more by thus limiting their opportunities of study than many who never cease to "grind" out the modicum of study required by the college regulations. The art of study is truly a great one, and an art that ought to be learned early in life, before, if possible, a man reaches college. To those who find it difficult to learn at so late a period, system...
...gentleman who "was recently the recipient of a dinner tendered to him" by some society or other. The two words which we have italicized prove sufficiently that the author of the item deserves, at least, to graduate with high honors in newspaper English. There is necessarily a modicum of bad matter in college journals, but bad manner is inexcusable...