Word: generously
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...after all is said, we still recognize the true man. In fact, "virtue" really means more today than ever. Though a low conception of manliness has been allowed to creep in, still we honor the man who is truthful, generous, open hearted, courteous, and pure, the true...
...contributing to something which shall always stand, not only as the finest college athletic field in the country, but as a memorial to those Harvard men who unselfishly devoted their lives to their country's good. It is, too, but fitting that, when Col. Higginson has shown so generous and lively an interest in our athletic welfare, and the graduates have with equally admirable alacrity subscribed forty-seven out of the necessary fifty-thousand dollars we should show our appreciation by a hearty and ready response to the call for the last three thousand dollars...
...inconveniences of our present reading room have tried our patience sorely, even so far that a year or two ago a movement was started to raise subscriptions to form the nucleus of a fund for the erection of such a reading room as has just been given us. The generous gift of some anonymous friend has spared us the necessity of waiting. perhaps many years, before the student movement could bear any practical result. To both of our unknown friends we wish to extend the heartiest thanks of the student body, whose appreciation is hearty and sincere...
...which he was, heart and soul, ready to do anything that he could. The few extracts from letters of his sufficiently show the warm interest he had in the matter. It is especially appropriate that active work in such a memorial should begin with his classmates and their generous subscription of ten thousand dollars and promise of further support, should be a good example to call forth further subscriptions from every man who wishes to honor the memory of Phillips Brooks, and have a share in the completion of a project which he so greatly favored and worked...
...that score feel justified in suggesting such an undertaking. The first objection to this would be that it takes an enormous amount of time to perfect anything of this sort; but who will not acknowledge that if the Dickie and Pudding private theatricals, given simply for pleasure, find generous support, a venture supported by the college, and acknowledged to be the most important event of the year, would call forth a great number of men who would be glad to give the time required, in exchange for the advantages sure to follow. Another objection is that men who really have...