Word: whose
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...members of the Class of '78 of Harvard College, sincerely mourn the sudden death of our classmate Melvin Hasbrouck, as taking from our number one who was not merely a pleasant and genial companion, but a noble-hearted friend, whose generous and thoroughly unselfish nature may well serve us as an inspiration and an example...
...scholarship question was ably handled, and, as a practical question interesting to our University, conclusively settled by President Eliot in his reply to "T. W. H." in the Nation of March 6th. Yet one idea has protruded itself in the discussion of this question whose influence seems to me most pernicious: I refer to the idea that these scholarships are charities and their acquisition a cause of humiliation. This notion was pressed by "T. W. H.," but I should have considered it unworthy of notice had not an editorial in the last Crimson and an article in the last Advocate...
...this spirit and with this intent an alms? Most decidedly, No! It is rather a mutual helping toward a common end. Or, on the part of the donors, it was at most a loan, not repayable to the lenders, - they do not want it again, - but to the cause whose friends and representatives they were, whose interests they had most at heart, and which they believed they were most effectually aiding by the establishment of these scholarships...
...roll of honor. The successful ones are the men who have overcome sharp competition by force of superior ability; they are men in whom have been found parts and powers worthy of recognition and encouragement, not for themselves alone, but also for the general cause of education, whose furtherance they are especially fitted and bound, directly or indirectly, to secure...
...Whose soothing monotones my senses please...