Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Student Council of America's oldest institution of culture are graciously permitting the crowd which their team attracts each Saturday to be canvassed for any loose change that may be lefty in individual Jeans after the purchase of a $4 or $5 admission ticket. The gift is particularly generous in this blase age of ours when good cords are hard to collect, and in view of the optimism expressed by the President of the Student Council who hopes for an average contribution of twenty-five cents per spectator. Most gratifying of all is the announcement that a plan...
...speaking of the gift of the site, Dr. Shapley said, "The general interest which Mr. and Mrs. Fuller have for long had in astronomy made them aware of the importance of the Oak Ridge site as a location for a big reflecting telescope. Their quick and generous offer to Harvard of their valuable tract has been a great satisfaction to all the members of the Observatory staff who are concerned with the operation of the new reflector...
...Harvard authorities in their attempt to find if college to supplant the Army on the football schedule. For the West Point contest hitherto has been a great financial success. The Military Academy, in agreeing to but one contest at West Point after every three in Cambridge, has been generous in easing the obstacles raised by Harvard's rule limiting the football team to one trip away from Cambridge per season. But it is a matter of principle and of reason that the football team from West Point should be eliminated from the Harvard schedule...
...Yale it is another indication that she has the welfare of her community at heart. Having given $15,000 in cash to the community chest, and having provided $100,000 to create employment, she has already done New Haven a generous deed but in a less fantastic way. This coupled with her participation in the plan announced today, shows her willingness to meet extraordinary proposals called for by the present acute emergency...
...deny that to fall in with the proposal would have been a clever way of making a generous gesture and carrying off applause as gracefully as possible in a bad situation. A method of assisting unemployment relief has been suggested to the President, and he has declined to accept the means and its concomitant sacrifice of principle...