Word: friend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...moved by an undue prejudice against Japan, but friendliness to China must not imply animosity toward Japan. The real interests of Japan as well as of China require a policy of neutral helpfulness between the two countries and it should be the aim of America to act as the friend of both countries and to promote this policy...
...specified above, one of which is for a translation in Greek and the other in Latin. The subject for the Greek of the passage in J. B. Bury's "History of Greece," Chapter 12, Section 1, beginning with "Sparta had achieved the task," and ending with "from a friend of Lacedaemon...
...Major Henry L. Higginson the University has lost a councillor and benefactor, the students a friend. Ever mindful of their welfare he gave them the Union and Soldiers' Field. Outside the University he created, and for years at his own expense maintained, the Symphony Orchestra. Without holding public office he was always quick to serve the public and unsparing in his denunciation of public wrong. Many will feel that a friend has gone from us, for he was much loved, because he loved much...
...there was in the country or the world; because he gave the University two great gifts, one the Soldiers Field, on which he hoped that manly sports of many kinds would be generously cultivated through long generations of Harvard youth, and on which he erected a monument to youthful friends of his who fell in the Civil War, and the Harvard Union, where he hoped that democracy and good-fellowship among Harvard students would be forever cultivated; because he had proved himself to be the most successful promoter of good music that Eastern Massachusetts had ever known; and because...
Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, Fellow of the Corporation, donor of Soldiers Field and the Union, and throughout his long and useful life friend and benefactor of the University, died on Friday night at 9 o'clock...