Word: timidness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the aid of an enthusiastic orchestra and adequate, if sometimes timid, scenery. "The Governor's Wife" seampers triumphantly on to a happy (not tired) ending. Even the Bull-Ring scene, in spite of its terrifying recollection of a football game at the Stadium, is distinctly thrilling...
...Alas! It can never be! The new school of pedagogy may allow women pupils, but we feel sure that the College will never be subject to the feminizing sway. That timid idea, so tentatively proposed by the Governing Board will not be adopted at Harvard. The stern spirits of every Puritan from Miles Standish to Cotton Mather arise in solemn protest. We see the inventor of the original "New England conscience" deliver his fateful warning.--Never. The drear halls of Sever shall not be made frivolous. No shall they invade the awful precincts of "Mem". For this is your...
...interesting feature of this tribunal is that its decisions are to be in no way binding. The board expects to publish its findings and thus crystallize public opinion. This is a step in the right direction, and though a somewhat timid one, is based on the strong principle that if public opinion is given facts on which to base its judgment, neither capital nor labor will dare to bring forward an unjust cause...