Word: generously
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Oxford and Cambridge, than which no universities have turned out finer, cleaner, more manly, more highly cultivated, and more practically trained scholars, statesmen, empire builders, or more generous enthusiasts for general athletics and clean sport--in Oxford and Cambridge the purpose is study, and the honors are paid to the scholar. There are no undergraduate newspapers, no class meetings, no college politics, no football rallies, no business managers, no claques for organized applause, no yell leaders, no dances, no social functions of the mass. Social intercourse during term between the sexes is strictly forbidden; and it is a matter...
...undertakings; he carried on detailed researches on the group of the Echinoderms; he added scientific knowledge of the great oceans by his deep-sea researches; he travelled more extensively than any other man of his time in studying coral-reefs; and he assisted Harvard, his alma mater, by his generous donations to her museums and other interests...
...BULLETIN has called our attention to the fact that a recent CRIMSON editorial on the exclusion of books from the Reading Room was misconstrued by many. The CRIMSON realizes that the great majority of the Faculty are extremely generous in regard to books they have written. Our editorial, far from being general in its intent, merely wished to protest against two or three books whose exclusion we believe unjustified...
...greatest service to the University, apart from his teaching, was his organization of the Department of English. He was chairman of the Department for many years, and the development of courses of study in the later periods of literature was largely his work. His views were broad and generous. He valued scholarship wherever be found it, even when it lay outside of his own particular interests. He was, in fact, the least dogmatic of men, despite the impression to the contrary which his vigorous way of speaking frequently made upon those who did not know him well...
...should take the form of a memorial to Burr, for as the first president of the Varsity Club he was largely responsible for its assumption of a useful and active position in connection with undergraduate athletics. The CRIMSON takes great pleasure in expressing to the donor of this most generous and timely gift the sincere and deserved gratitude of the undergraduate body...