Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time to recognize that dependence on generous gifts from a relatively small percentage of alumni is an unfortunate one. The college should maintain as complete a contact with its alumni as possible, and the policy which results in keeping contact only with the favored few is one that should be reconsidered...
Frondizi said he would ask Congress for an "ample and generous" political amnesty, under which "all political parties can freely function." He thus made payment on his political debt to the Peronistas, but was also living up to his deep personal belief that no one should be persecuted for political ideas. He praised the military for their "historic service to democracy," but warned them to stay out of politics from...
...economic thermometers that showed the cost of living at a new high, and unemployment compensation at a new high, too. He gave the body-economic a couple of solid thumps and came up with his prescription: some belt-tightening around the soft underbelly of business and labor, a generous dosage of self-reliance, and a faith that the U.S. Government has no intention of letting a full-scale depression develop...
Philanthropic foundations in 1956-57 handed out 39% of the gifts-$319 million. Next most generous source: alumni, who donated $101 million. Grants and gifts tabbed for faculty salaries (including the vast Ford Foundation gifts) rose 506% from 1954-55; next highest gain was in gifts for basic research...
...issue brought almost everybody out swinging-Christians, Jews and unbelievers, graduates, undergraduates, faculty members and plain kibitzers. "The only interpretation," snapped Jerome Davis Greene, '96, longtime Harvard overseer, in a letter to the Harvard Crimson, "is that in spite of generous gifts from Jews toward the erection of the Church, and in spite of the sacrifice of Jewish lives of which it was a memorial,* the gifts were somehow impressed with a trust that forbade any contamination of the premises that might compromise the claims of Protestant Christianity to a monopoly of ultimate truth." Wrote Psychology Professor Jerome Seymour...