Word: generously
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Senior class thanks the Class of 1916 for the generous contribution of $167.25 to the Senior Picnic Fund. This beats all records by a good margin. May they find the same willing response from the Class of 1919 three years from...
Secondly and equally important is the custom of the financially decrepit Seniors begging a few humble pennies from the generous Freshmen. The object of this Freshman philanthropy is one of the worthiest met with in a college career--it is the Senior Picnic. Let every member of 1916 come to the steps behind Memorial Hall with his pockets well filled with small change to help give the Seniors a last grand party...
...Santayana will be happy to see his work so warmly appreciated by the group of men who have thus undertaken to discuss it, and will be particularly gratified to recognize that in so doing they have caught something of his own rare spirit. His own attitude--judicial but generous, frank but reverent, cultivated but strong--is reflected in their essays concerning his. Nor does one note as much difference as one would expect between the style of the master and that of his disciples: the number is well written throughout, and in parts shows true distinction...
...time, which will elapse between when the date of the donation and the time when the money falls into the hands of the University should encourage the custom of giving unconditionally, and it is to be greatly hoped that future legators to the Mutual Foundation will follow the generous example of its founders...
...boat-race was rowed on Friday, the first day after Commencement at Harvard and the second day after Commencement at Yale. This date leaves Thursday an off day in the Yale festivities. Thus the proposal of Friday, coming from Yale, was not merely fair but generous, a courtesy which Harvard men should appreciate. The dates were settled without a suspicion of friction between the Colleges, and settled by men who did not question, outwardly or inwardly, each other's sincerity. This would seem, and should be, a matter of course; my excuse for mentioning it is its inexcusable novelty...