Word: generously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Close on the heels of the Bok Peace Plan, pacifism, and Sir Harry Lauder's plea for international friendship comes the opportunity to prepare for war in the offer made to undergraduates by the naval flying station at Squantum. That it is a generous offer there is no denying. It is also a wise one, from the point of view of preparedness. It aims to fit educated men as officers, and this can do the service no harm. It was only too obvious during the war that it was as impossible to make gentlemen by Act of Congress...
After a cursory view of TIME'S summary of events, the Generous Citizen points with pride...
Harvard men will learn with conscious pride that every day thirteen western colleges send up thirteen generous prayers for this "godless university". Of course, Harvard has always gloried in being godless has even taken pains, perhaps, to appear just a bit more godless than she really is but this solicitude on the part of her sister universities may be considered as a crowning achievement...
...many readers the most curiously interesting chapter will be the first, in which we read the history of Holden Chapel. Here again a persistent Harvard trait is illustrated, the practical adaptation of material means to immediate ideal ends. Built on a generous scale for religious purposes within one generation, and during a century and a half has been either entirely abandoned or employed as "senate-chamber, courthouse, barracks, carpenter shop, engine-house, dissecting theatre, recitation building, museum, lecture-hall, clubhouse, laboratory, general auditorium--everything but a chapel." In our architectural kaleidoscope this much abused solitary gift of an English donor...
After a cursory view of TIME'S summary of events, the Generous Citizen points with pride...