Word: generously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...success of the Glee Club Pierian concert last night was unusual, both in a musical and financial way. The sale of seats was the largest that has ever been known, and the generous applause of the audience was sufficient evidence of the success of the concert musically. The Glee and Banjo Clubs and Pierian Sodality certainly deserve the success that accompanied their united efforts last night. All that faithful practice could do to improve each of them, had been done, and its result was manifest in the way the Glee Club sang and the Banjo Club and the Pierian played...
...conscientiously, but he did not expect much from "the boys." Like them, he thought examination a good deal of a bore. He was a genial and extremely popular man, and when he became president the students always felt that he was on their side. His was a large and generous idea, and in all of his published work he has deserved well of his country, but the idea of the practical teaching of history, even of America, was yet to evolve from the tutorial system of Harvard College...
...playing at second, his regular position. The team's training is noticeably lax, but the experiences of the season will doubtless necessitate an improvement. Ford's catching is daily growing better but Brownlee throws better to second base. The season has been unpropitious and college support has not been generous; besides a debt of last year's association had to be paid, - and a few inopportune rains may swamp the management financially...
...branches of physical culture. It seems like a myth when we realize that the undergraduates' favorite fancy is at last to be realized, and that Hemenway will be the only college gymnasium to have the luxury of a swimming-bath. The thanks of the University are due to the generous contributors to this project, without whose aid the new auxiliary to the gymnasium would be a thing of the distant future. Whatever may be said of "Harvard indifference" nevertheless the fact remains, that when any crying need is felt, Harvard's sons are always loyal...
...club seems ready to be of some use outside of mere social pleasures, and to fill a place where it may do a great deal towards keeping up a manly and generous feeling upon all athletic matches. If the finances are started upon a sure basis the club cannot fail to succeed...