Word: generous
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Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70-'73 said she thought the College's new and more generous financial aid policy, announced last fall, had driven up the number of applications...
Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70-'73 said she thought the College's new and more generous financial aid policy, announced last fall, had driven up the number of applications...
Ronald Reagan knew how to win a reluctant bride. He told Americans how beautiful they were, how generous and strong and brave, and even if everyone knew that some of this was blarney, it was still lovely to be loved and to try to live up to the image. So it is a little sad and strange to listen to conservative leaders--who still honor Reagan as the greatest modern President--as they file for divorce from the people he cherished so deeply...
...generous as he was brilliant. Instead of hoarding his ideas, he shared them with all comers. Indeed, as many as half a dozen mathematicians would sometimes gather to wrestle with Erdos' provocative notions about integers, whole numbers and primes--furiously scribbling complex proofs as the old man flitted among them, imparting astonishingly acute insights in wholesale lots...
...housing the crown jewels of human evolution. Every fossil took on a mythical cast as he waxed eloquent about how it revealed some magic moment of our origins. Here he was, the grand master, sharing his passion, knowledge and intuition with a new disciple. He was often like that: generous, open, supportive, always trying to win new converts to his way of working, his way of interpreting the past. Born in Kenya of English missionaries, Louis was initiated by tribal elders into the native Kikuyu society. As a young man he was adventurous, impulsive, driven, ruggedly handsome and romantically African...