Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purely as a matter of record and wholly in the spirit of the game, The Literary Digest guaranteed the American expenses of the Cambridge Rugby Team during its visit to the United States [TIME, April 16]. Marshall Field was a generous contributor in as much as he entertained the team and others at dinner. Fortunately there was no "angel" as the receipts from the games and the courtesy of the various hosts not only met the American expenses but paid the advances Cambridge made. In a word it was a successful sporting adventure...
...QUEEN AND MR. GLADSTONE- Philip Guedalla-Doubleday, Doran ($5). A generous selection from the correspondence of two indefatigable letter-writers, edited and introduced by a 19th Century specialist...
...indifferent student body, and the celebration of an occasion which is as fraught with historical significance as the coming tercentenary should be more than a round of ostentatious ceremony and speech-making led by the faculty and the alumni, with intent to loosen the purse strings of generous graduates. It should be a matter of great interest and pride as well to the students who are very much a part of the oldest college in the country. With a new constitution, which it is hoped will obviate the former tendency of the organization to forget its original aim of perpetuating...
...distinction between the A.B. and S.B. degree remains at Harvard as a relic of the time when no liberal education was complete without a generous amount of the classics. In some quarters, notably in England, this belief has defied all the educational developments of the twentieth century. But there are few at Harvard, outside of the classicists themselves, who would still hold that Latin and Greek should be accorded a place of special privilege in the curricula of the secondary schools...
...Wagner places the fee of the artist before the responsibility of himself and of the artist to the public. Both Mr. Wagner and Mr. Thomas are placed in the position where they can protect themselves; the generous public who support both but which cannot safeguard its interests is left out of consideration...