Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...times past (though, of course, there is no such thing now) there have been many students here, with generous hearts and long purses, who have bought everything they thought they wanted without asking the price, and have given to every beggar that called, simply to get rid of them...
...character, borrow a car-fare, and make a pilgrimage to this Mecca of boundless generosity. Our poor friend Jones is just weak enough to be food for all these hungry visitors. Endowed with that thirst for knowledge so common here, he is always found in his room, and his generous heart compels him to cry "Come in" at every knock on his door. Many a time has he sold his best coat - for the wretches will hardly look at an old one - at about one nineteenth of its value, and then been wheedled into taking his pay in cheap vases...
There are various avenues to college popularity: some wish to be popular with a few, and therefore seek by means of their money to make friends with the conspicuous members of prominent societies; some try for it by prowess in boating or at ball, and some by generous contributions to the funds for current expenses; some by being jolly fellows, and others by the politic exercise of an eloquent and self-asserting tongue...
...Holyoke House, which was accepted by the society. This room, large, high-studded, and in every way suited to the purposes for which it is intended, has been fitted up in a most becoming manner, with an eye to the aesthetic as well as the practical. Thanks to the generous subscriptions of the members, the committee have been obliged to omit nothing required in the best-appointed society rooms. According to the agreement of the lease the Institute library is to be removed hither. New and elegant bookcases have been ordered to receive it, and it will be rearranged, catalogued...
...accomplish all this, the Society has been at an expense of between four and five hundred dollars, more than half of which was subscribed at the meeting at which the change was decided upon, and the balance was forthcoming in so generous a manner as to give the strongest evidence of the growing interest felt for the society. So much for what has been done. It is in the future, however, that the Sophomores look for the best fruit of their labors, and are anxious that the spirit of progress, inaugurated by them, should find some worthy champions in those...