Word: generously
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard is indebted to Professor and Mrs. de Sumichrast for their great hospitality to new members of the University. The reception last night was the tactful expression of a generous impulse...
...recent acquisitions is the case containing the more interesting cryptogamia. This has been arranged in part and proves attractive to all visitors. A few weeks ago a graduate of the University, who resides in one of our eastern cities, presented to the Botanical Department for present use, the very generous sum of ten thousand dollars. Of this amount, one quarter will be used by the Herbarium for the completion of its series of scientific publications, one quarter by the Botanic Garden, and the remaining half by the Botanical Museum in the completion of some of the cases which have been...
...Harvard Memorial Biographies' the story of the generous lives of our fellows dead in the war is told with pathetic and tender simplicity. Every page is inspiring. I read a few lines written by one of my own dear college friends, Peter Porter, sweet, high-minded, poetic, humorous, lovable comrade, scholar and gentleman. He was colonel of a New York regiment; he fell leading a charge at Cold Harbor. Before going to the war he made his will, and the words with which he began it seem to me sincerely characteristic of the spirit of modest self-conservation which...
...Jarley. A man is known, says the proverb, by the company he keeps, and not only so, but made by it. Milton makes his fallen angels grow small to enter the infernal council room, but the soul, which God meant to be the spacious chamber where high thoughts and generous aspirations might commune together, shrinks and narrows itself to the measure of the meaner company that is wont to gather there, hatching conspiracies against our better selves. One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading. My advice would be that they should confine themselves...
...early life, St. Francis was very fond of dress and pleasure, but he was ever generous, kind to the poor and pure, and in these traits can be seen the ruling characteristics of his after life. He had some ambition for military fame, but on becoming ill after one campaign in which he took part, a more serious conception of life took possession of him. Soon after, when he was on the way to join in another war, a voice from heaven seemed to call upon him to renounce his present mode of life and devote himself to the service...