Word: generously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spirit of helpfulness and cooperation is nowhere so clearly evident as in the policies of the College Library. No other large depository of valuable books is so generous of its treasures. The rules, though they at times seem irksome and unreasonable, are mild when compared with those in force elsewhere...
...Java he served the rich Van Ressler long and faithfully. Van Ressler was grateful. He rewarded Dundee by giving him a generous portion of his rubber plantation. The trees were young but would be ready to tap in a year or so. Success was at hand...
...field for discussion. It is fair to say that up to this time the proposed cessation of upper-class course meetings has been looked upon by the majority of students with more or less optimistic, and unknowing, docility. Now, however, when professors and instructors are beginning to portion out generous assignments of reading and to utter vague hints concerning the ultimate examination on that reading, the three weeks following the Christmas Holidays assume a more severe and on the whole a more normal aspect. As has been said before, and as will be said until experience has proved the truth...
...cold has long since gone but nevertheless I am very grateful for the antidote. As a matter of fact the bottle is here on the table as I write and occasionally I take a sip, in order that I may establish a sort of personal relation with my generous unknown friend. Whoever you are and wherever you are I should like to see you if ever you come to New Haven; you must come over for dinner. I do not care for stimulants as a rule--indeed I rarely touch them--but this sheems to have hit the spot...
...conversation then turned on the editor of the next I happened to have brought. "That man never had a generous or unselfish motive in his life; and you will never live to see him have one." I never knew of Mr. Norton's acting from any other motive. He not only read out loud at home every evening; he offered every family in the land choice material for similar reading; every Sunday he read to the inmates of the Hospital for Incurables, not Tar from Shady Hill.... To describe Charles Eliot Norton in a single phrase, I should...