Word: tendered
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...water-lilies. It would be a great addition to the attractiveness of the Garden, if an aquatic house could be built on the upper terrace. In such a house it would be possible to cultivate the magnificent "Victoria regia," or Water-lily of the Amazons, and the varieties of tender water-lilies of smaller size...
...Thackeray's most powerful book, "Henry Esmond" was of all his works the best and noblest. Its charm does not lie in its rich and beautiful style, nor in the strength of its plot, nor in the accuracy of its historical description, but rather in the deep and tender sympathy and comprehension of human nature that Thackeray has so marvelously expressed. In "Henry Esmond," in "Pendennis" and "The Newcomes" Thackeray showed that power which has placed him high among English writers--the power of creating in fiction, by his sincerity, by the brilliancy of his humor and the tenderness...
...Mouth of Babes," by J. LaFarge '01, is an admirable bit of work. It is delicate and tender in conception, and artistic in execution. The theme of the story is the uplifting of a day-laborer's character through the spirit of his dead wife, ever present in their little daughter...