Word: generously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporter his opinion of the Student Friendship Fund, the Right Reverend William Lawrence '71, Bishop of Massachusetts, and Fellow of Harvard College remarked: "How can Harvard students do a more friendly thing for fellow students in Europe and the Near East than to show their sympathy by sending a generous contribution to help them to gain something of the privileges we are receiving in our great universities in this prosperous country...
...graduate students or members of the faculty. Nevertheless, in view of the fact that almost $4000 of the total $5000 is expected from the college alone, the present showing is exceedingly discouraging, and in order that the 'University may equal the gifts of other American colleges, a far more generous response is necessary to the appeal of destitute students abroad...
With the good wishes of many of the nation's most prominent men behind it, and the eyes of other American universities who have already made large subscriptions upon it, it is felt that the University will meet the desperate appeal of European learning with a generous response. In a letter to the CRIMSON yesterday, John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton University, expressed his sympathy with the cause of relief and his confidence in the support that will be given it. Several other similar statements have been received...
...There would be no difficulty in securing a generous response from any university in our country if our young men could only have their imagination quickened to realize the desperate plight of their comrades abroad. I hope that in your drive you will be able to reach every man in your university. No one would willingly wish to be left out of the collective group which, under the name of Harvard, will send help to those abroad who are in such distressing need...
After a cursory view of TIME's summary of events, the Generous Citizen points with pride...