Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alumni and, secondly, of the student group, mainly because of the attendant publicity and a resultant inquisitiveness of the world into a private matter which should be solved primarily by Harvard if she is to maintain, in any sense of the word, her "specific code" of "enlightenedness, generous and fine sportsmanship, and pioneering in social progress," as the letter phrases it. The stigma is Harvard's; and it should be scrubbed out in private...
...question is quite debatable,--what is 'good' to the Christian may well be 'evil' to the Neitschean. But when related to the standards of a specific moral code, a situation either conforms or it does not. Harvard has forever identified herself with a specific code, one which signifies enlightenedness, generous and fine sportsmanship, and pioneering in social progress...
...getting married, he transferred his affections to food. His most famed affair (purely conversational, literary) was with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Says Biographer Sitwell: "Pope's tongue was in his cheek. Pope was a lifelong friend of great Dean Jonathan Swift, 21 years his senior. Swift was parsimonious, but generous to his friends; once when Pope and Gay came to see him he asked them to stay to supper?they had supped; to drink?they preferred talk. The Dean then figured how much he had saved by their refusal, gracefully presented each with half-a-crown...
...accuse her of influencing Wagner, even of distorting facts herself for the sake of proving Minna a shrewish, ill-bred woman and herself the ultimate inspiration, the great love of Wagner's life. That the Burrell documents provide a strong case none will deny. Minna was evidently a generous, badly abused soul and Wagner loved her. But Authors Hum and Root have weakened their argument by conducting it in a spirit of backtalk, by forgetting in their vindictiveness, that Tristan and Gotterdammerung will endure long after the names of Minna and Cosima have passed out of human remembrance...
...large collections of birds, one from China and the other from South America, have been added to the ornithological collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard through the, generous, interest of a number of alumni of the University...