Word: timid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...world has lavished money on this place that we value so highly and expects to see men here abounding in life and enjoying, finding and obeying the masters of their souls. If any man at this University grows timid or reckless, if he becomes either skeptical or profligate he was no up to Harvard College, he should not have been sent here...
...even greater national significance will speak under the auspices of the club since not only the range of subjects which can be pertinently touched upon, will be wider but there will be nothing in such a name as the Harvard Reform Club which might make the most timid, suppose of ballot reformers, dread being compromised to free trade, as he might with some reason fear, by speaking publicly under the auspices of a Free Wool Club...