Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nelson Perkins shocks his friends at home and is felt in all distant countries touched by his work on Reparations. The public praise heaped upon his career at the bar and in industry and banking cannot hide in his friends' minds the memory of a genial counselor, just as generous in his efforts as sage in his advice, nor can Harvard in particular forget the thirty years Mr. Perkins spent as Fellow, during which period he rose from the youngest of the Corporation to be its revered senior member and keenest spirit...
However the present plan now adopted, is a very generous one, and it is better that it should come now than at some later time, when some newly-passed law might have forced it down the University throat...
Congratulations on your excellent article! "Fosdick's First" is almost perfect. May I add one factor that, perhaps, would make your write-up more complete? I make this suggestion believing it is due the Rockefellers to mention this interest of theirs. I refer to their very generous appropriations over a period of years to Negro education, which work your splendid article did not mention...
...know that if it were not for their generous contributions, both to the building of Meharry's new $2,000,000 medical plant, and also, their very substantial appropriation; towards the maintenance of Meharry Medical College annually, over a period of many years, we simply could not have kept open, this, the only medical college for the training of Negro youth in the vast area west of the Allegheny Mountains and south of the Mason and Dixon Line...
...white man and an American citizen, I personally consider these generous appropriations towards Negro medical education of the Rockefeller Boards to be among the most constructive activities which the Rockefellers have done in America...