Word: generously
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Geothe and Cogswell" is a development of an article contributed by Professor Francke to the "Nation," treating of one of the most generous and cultivated men that Harvard ever produced...
Announcement was made yesterday of the gift to Harvard University of twenty acres of ground for athletic purposes by Mr. Henry L. Higginson of Boston, who has already earned so much gratitude from the people at large by his generous support of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...donor of this magnificent gift is already well known to the public as a generous and public-spirited man. He is especially respected by Harvard men as a liberal giver in response to appeals from the university. Year after year he has made generous bequests in an unobtrusive way, until, even before his last gift, he stood among the first of Harvard's benefactors. Now he has shown his loyalty to the students' interests in a way that must make every man personally grateful. Tonight Harvard men will have an opportunity to make his acquaintance. No true son of Harvard...
...coming up readily to the need, or of the management in not soliciting subscriptions with sufficient assiduity. The simple fact remains that the freshman class has not, up to the present date, subscribed enough money to support the crew, and has, therefore, shown itself to be less generous than preceding classes. The opportunity has now come for the men to redeem such a reputation. If the meeting tonight is not largely attended, and if the freshman class does not subscribe liberally during the coming week, it will go on record as the only class whose athletic reputation has been sullied...
...athletics which the year has developed, and friends of the college have been hoping that all traces of "Harvard indifference" had died out forever. But if this performance is the result of the new spirit we had better return to the old days of listlessness. If this year's generous gifts,- the Weld boat-house, the Carey Building and the new athletic grounds-have roused a spirit which manifests itself in such a way, we had better give up athletics altogether...