Word: generous
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This explanation is false. It is false because it fails to account for the immense investment of emotion and time which students put into their community service programs. Thus, it is still unclear why Harvard students who are so generous in their programs are also so close-fisted outside of them. How can they both care about and not care about the poor at the same time...
Over its 50-year history, the Student Dorm Crew has relied on above-average pay and generous incentives to encourage students to roll up their sleeves and scrub bathroom sinks. But when students found more money in their pockets after the University's much-touted increase in financial aid last fall, the Dorm Crew program was left to develop new strategies to encourage students to work...
Many agree that crew administrators have made what is possibly the least glamorous job on campus significantly more attractive with a generous pay structure and flexibility beyond that available in most other jobs...
...Gifts to Harvard can take on other forms as well. Most of the art museums lack large endowments of their own for new pieces, and rely heavily on donors for new acquisitions. Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886, remains the most generous benefactor to the Harvard Art Museums. In 1953, he gave a donation of over 3,700 works. Here, inheritance was the name of the game: This descendant of John Winthrop gave up practicing law after a few years to devote himself to art collecting...
Department chairs said they hoped the more generous financial aid program would help recruit graduate students...