Word: generously
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...half he spent abroad, travelling and studying. Then returning, in the fall of 1889, he joined the junior class at Hamline. He completed this year and in the following autumn came to Harvard, where he was admitted to the junior class. During his two years in Cambridge his generous, courteous bearing won for him many close friends. He was a member of the Delta Upsilon and of the Pierian Sodality. Of the latter he was for some time president...
...when he lauded Shelley's letters to the skies, saying that they would long outlive his poetry. Arnold says of himself that there was in him a good, definite streak of the Philistine. Yet we should not dwell too much upon the mistakes of a man so full of generous enthusiasm for the best things. Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater and Henry James were all apostles to the Philistines...
...York Tribune in reference to Ysaye's American debut: "He came and conquered as erstwhile Rubinstein did, and, indeed, suggested no character so much as a Rubinstein of the violin, - an artist with a great, sympathetic, sensitive soul, responsive to every variety of emotion, prompt and generous in its givings out, who makes one forget all about the art of violin playing in the simple enjoyment of the beautiful and impassioned proclamation which he makes...
...pleasant to be able to speak of any performance on the part of the students in terms of such high praise as the French play has deserved. The work which the members of the Cercle Francais and their generous helpers have done this year has already won general and hearty commendation. It is to be hoped that it will be further rewarded by the presence of a large and enthusiastic audience at the final performance of "Les Fourberies de Scapin" this evening...
...Hancock street, Boston. The expenses of the committee for the year will be one thousand dollars, half of which has already been subscribed. It is hoped to raise the other five hundred dollars before December 1, and an active canvass now being made among the students is meeting a generous response. Subscriptions may be sent to the treasurer, C. E. Noyes, 7 Ware street...