Word: generous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...complex academic life at the passing moment. Dr. Birkbeck Hill was evidently deceived in one or two minor traits of college civilization by undergraduates with a taste for the American joke. In the main, this English writer's statements are correct, his few strictures richly deserved, his generous praise well bestowed...
...crew is still in urgent need of funds and unless the members of the class lend more generous support, the crew will have to dispense with a training table...
...felt their want keenly; but though he desired them keenly; but though he desired them earnestly for Harvard, he cannot have desired them half so earnestly as she does herself. Fortunately she has not to wait for them, as Mr. Hill seemed to anticipate, till the rise of "some generous and wealthy benefactor," though she still must wait for several years. The recent financial crises made it necessary to give up all attempt to complete the fund towards the erection and maintenance of the Phillips Brooks House. Now, however, that the effects of that crises are wearing away, we look...
...students went out on the campus to sing the college glees. The more fortunate adjourned to the banquet which took place immediately after. The spacious dining rooms of the Princeton Inn were festooned with colors of the two universities and everything was arranged in a way suggestive of the generous rivalry between the crimson and the orange and black. There were 75 professors, alumni and friends of the two colleges...
...century were to be named for its first half it would be known as that of science; if it were to be named for its last quarter, in would be called the woman's century. Even though the new movement offends their vanity, men should take the right and generous view of the subject. The higher education of women is of the noblest and most characteristic movements of our time. In the state of Massachusetts there are forty thousand more women than men. When one considers that many of these women will in all probability have to support themselves...