Word: generously
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting was characterized by the utmost warmth and loyalty. The speeches were of the greatest interest. No one who heard the "Reminiscences of Louis Agassiz," by one who knew him so well, will forget the eloquent tribute paid to the great man's intellectual sincerity, to his generous devotion to his work, to his unflinching theism. "Why Harvard is better than Yale" was ably demonstrated by a Yale...
...twenty or twenty-five thousand dollars pledged by college students or through them we shall have an argument which, backed by the strong statements of the Overseers'Committee, the President and the Librarian in their recent reports, will carry conviction to the hearts of our generous alumni better than any words we can put on paper...
...more unfortunate step in the educational world than such a significant and conspicuous lowering of the standard of the higher liberal education would be at the present time. The one thing more needful than any other in the whole business, social and political world of America, is a broad, generous and leisurely liberal education for its young men preparing for active life. To lower the standard of liberal culture, and above all for the movement for its reduction to come from those bodies which should be its friends, would be deplorable in its moral effect throughoutthe community. Besides undoing much...
Resolved, That in the death of Philip Deland Stone we have lost one of our most promising members, whose manly nature, generous, true-hearted impulse and brave simplicity won all hearts; we recognize that in his death we have suffered an irreparable loss...
...committee particularly desire that a generous response should be made by seniors to the circulars sent them. A messenger will call upon men willing to give at any time they appoint. Notice of readiness to contribute should be sent to the Rev. Francis G. Peabody, chairman of the committee...