Word: timidly
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...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...
...woman to send you her verses; she will do it; I can vouch for her most profuse willingness in that regard. Ask the Nihilist over there in the corner when and where he is to speak next on his pet subject, and win his regard for life. Allow the timid-looking old gentleman by the mantelpiece to tell you about co-education, and swallow every mad idea he offers you, and finish him up by asking for his last pamphlet on "A Refutation of the Arguments on the Physical Disability of Women to do Man's Work." Get the stout...
...himself, and after examining the guest-book, the chief of police and several other Boston dignitaries, he found that Mr. Pratt was actually staying at the Vendome - his room was up pretty high, to be sure, but for all that he was at the Vendome. After two or three timid knocks the door was partly opened, and Dan'l's classic head appeared, with the question if he'd come to buy a photograph. The reporter said that such was not his purpose, but he would like to get Mr. Pratt's opinions on the topics...