When, in 1908, he gave the Hibbert lectures in Oxford, the venue had to be changed from a modest library to the vast rooms of the Examination Schools building.
Professor Lautner contrasts Holmes' legacy with that of John Harvard, whose donation of a modest library and four hundred British pounds led to a major university that bears his name, implying that MSU's debt to Holmes is far greater.
A modest library held English-language biographies of Eric Clapton and Andre Agassi, and a full set of Danielle Steel.
What he provided was a haven of normality, with a piano, a few pets (cats and birds) and even a modest library.
This news is slightly bittersweet for me, since I just switched to Adobe Lightroom last week, mainly due to the unbelievably sluggish performance of Aperture with even my modest library of images.
On a wintry Thursday evening, a motley group of high school students clad in Western business attire shuffle about the modest library of Branford High School in southern Connecticut.
There is even a modest lending library of lost books that indicate the Long Island mindset: "Be a Real Estate Millionaire," "Gross Anatomy," "Blue Highways," by William Least Heat Moon and Joe Torre's inside-the-clubhouse tell-all.
Recorded data from just a few hours of observation typically contain about one trillion bits of information, which is roughly equivalent to storing the entire contents of a modest-sized library.
The library offers a modest selection of books on the borough — check out Allen Abel's 1995 "Flatbush Odyssey: A Journey Through the Heart of Brooklyn" — and plenty of thrillers by Dean Koontz and Mary Higgins Clark.
