Word: generously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building have been finished, and we hope very much that before another year the new indoor athletic building will be in use also. I hope the graduates who are returning for their reunions will find time to visit the site of this building. It is made possible through the generous gifts of three anonymous donors, but unfortunately the building cannot be finished unless $200,000 is forthcoming before late fall...
Prominent architects and artists are constantly asked to devote their services to public enterprises like the Chicagio Fair. Generous, many of them invariably do so. Their time is usually sacrificed, they receive no payment. In addition, their schemes are often censored by stodgy directors who insist on conventionalities. But Mr. Geddes and the Chicago Fair architects find their task happy, for between them and the men who hold the moneybags is Dr. Allen Diehl Albert of Evanston, Ill., old family friend, collaborator and spokesman of Rufus Cutler Dawes,* the Fair's president. Long a journalist (Washington Times, Columbus News...
...Master of Fassefern who had sired her, or Willie Weams, the groom. Divot Meg, the village's woman, out of compassion for Nancy, swore it was the master, then strangled Nancy's mother lest she quaver her own doubts in the matter. Others, less generous, preferred to believe it was the groom; hoped thereby to establish superiority over the spirited little orphan. The flaccid minister took her in; his wife sanctimoniously bullied her; his old mother defended her in malicious warfare with the wife...
...unusually generous bequest of Mr. Charles H. Ditson to the muscle department puts at its disposal a relatively large annual income. The terms of the gift allow a wide range of usefulness for the money and will give an opportunity to the Music department for varying somewhat its present functions...
...Generous donations of books, pamphlets and manuscripts continue to pour in and these are appreciated as increasing the scope of the collection, but on the other hand they require an augmented staff and cannot remove the necessity for selectively directed purchases. Partial relief in this direction has opportunely appeared through the generosity of the anonymous donor of the $100,000 Florence T. Baker Fund. The income from this Fund is available for the purchase of books and other printed material...