Word: generously
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...certain that there is in the University a large number of men who can afford to do so, but who have not yet taken the trouble. The CRIMSON sincerely hopes that those who are able to join will do so at once, for no University institution deserves more generous and widespread support than does the Union...
...wise and generous action on the part of the athletic authorities in abolishing subscriptions for Freshman teams was taken at the sacrifice of over $2,000 of income. This money was collected by canvassing from door to door, and the evils of this system were so general and apparent that their removal is a great relief to all undergraduates...
...conditions under which Mr. Grahame-White has offered to fly for the Harvard Aeronautical Society on Soldiers Field are magnificently generous and form a proof of his appreciation for the Society's work in the Harvard-Boston Aero Meet. Mr. Grahame-White is now receiving $5000 a day or more, and he offers to fly on Soldiers Field for his mere expenses. This remarkable offer places before the student body an opportunity such as no other community has ever had, and it is certain that practically no member of the University would be absent from such an exhibition...
...conduct of students in athletic contests were always as generous and sportsmanlike as the conduct of Harvard students in the committee that has charge of those contests, much of the talk against athletics would die a natural death. For the real danger in athletics is not physical, but moral. If a case against them is ever made out, it will not be because they kill a man now and then (though the risk of physical injury should be studiously reduced); it will be because they appear at times to paralyze the honor of contestants and spectators. I write...
...proposed to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary by putting a colonnade round the top of the Stadium and thus carrying out something like the original plan. It suggested that the Athletic Association should pay twenty-five thousand dollars toward the proposed addition, and that the class should pay the rest. Generous as the suggestion was, the committee did not at first feel authorized to assume a new debt. At last the Corporation, the committee, and the class came to an agreement. To show the final position of the committee in this matter, I quote several paragraphs from the record...