Word: timidity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Laughlin says that when the Bland Silver Bill was passed six years ago the effect upon the country was much the same as though a cage of wild animals had been set down in the streets of some populous city. At first timid people were anxious, fearing the consequences if the cage should break, but as time went on and nothing happened, quiet was restored. Now, however, when notice has been given that the balances of the government in the N. Y. Clearing House must soon be paid in silver, the people are as anxious as if the cage...
...little forward; a little embarrassing it is to be alone here, especially as I have forgotten a good deal of my Arabic. Don't you think, my dear fellow, you and I could manage to give them the slip? Run away from them, eh?" He uttered a timid little chuckle, and at that moment an innumerable host of hours began a ballet d'action illustrative of a series of events in the career of the Prophet. It was obvious that my poor uncomplaining old friend was really very miserable. The "thornless loto trees" were all thorny...
...matter of college athletics. First, our own faculty came out with its plan of reform and was partially followed by a number of other colleges. And now Amherst brings forward another plan-that of entire prohibition from inter-collegiate sports, which may be called either bolder or more timid than our own, according to the way in which one chooses to look at it. The plan adopted is more in accordance with the traditions of Amherst than it would be of any of the larger colleges, and we feel positive that it would never meet with success at Harvard. However...
...believe, is that of every undergraduate of Harvard whatever his creed. It is an "outrage," and should be called by no milder name, that these blue-laws are in force at the foremost university of America. All this nobody denies; and yet slow year drags after year and the timid conservatism of the Harvard Corporation permits no change...
...from the tyranny of boarding houses and outside establishments. With the present limited accommodations the freshman who succeeds in getting rooms in the yard may well deem himself fortunate; and the marvellous facility with which one is "left" in the spring lottery tends to make a man very timid about loosening his hold on his former quarters, however bad. As to the need of more dormitories in the yard, such a question seems beyond debate, and to such a demand as the present the college must not fail to reply in some way satisfactory to the mass of wandering boarders...