Word: generously
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...uneasy desire for a change, but will decide according to the best interests of Harvard. The meeting last night from beginning to end showed a strong desire to adopt whatever course was most honorable for the College, and the discussion was carried on in a frank and generous manner...
...this board has shown its interest in the welfare of The Crimson. To-morrow we join in the celebration of their Class Day, and the general festivities of a class that has not only done much for Harvard journalism, but has, during the year now closing, shown itself exceptionally generous, as a class, in sustaining other literary institutions within the College...
...College occupying its enviable place in the higher culture of our time; and we look to the able and thinking undergraduates to come forward now, and whenever there is need, to remove the burdens by whose weight the usefulness of the Reading-Room is impaired. The generous response which this call has already met with but indicates that the old true spirit of Harvard is still here, and shames the shamelessness of those men who sow only where they can receive a lion's share of the harvest...
...expected from the State Boards of Education, in the form of scholarships or otherwise, it becomes evident that the School must be carried on either by the help of the teachers for whose advantage it is intended, or by an endowment. The gift of Mr. Anderson, however generous, only sufficed to equip the School in an inexpensive manner, and to support it for two seasons. Repeated efforts to place it on a permanent basis have failed, and the Trustees do not feel justified, especially at a time when it is so difficult to raise money for scientific objects, in running...
...This interruption arises neither from lack of enthusiasm in the pupils of Penikese, nor from any want of generous interest in the naturalists who have thus far given their services to aid the enterprise. On the contrary, the second summer at Penikese was, to the surprise of its friends, as striking a success as the first had been, and the lists for the coming year were as crowded as ever. But the pupils at Penikese come from a poorly paid class. However grateful for the privilege of studying at a seaside school of natural history, very few among them...