Word: generous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correspondent whose letter suggests the foundation of a Peace Museum. The institute so built might surely offer its gallery of portraits and memorials as a Mecca to a peaceful world; and there would stand a library likewise devoted to this ideal; and, if the founders were really generous, the edifice housing these mementoes would be quite as inspiring as its contents. There is the raw material for a highly pleasing concretion of an ideal...
...gift of this large sum of money is an example of the present tendency of generous benefactors definitely to stipulate for what particular purposes this money is to be used. One recalls the recent donations to Vassar, the University of Michigan, and, overtopping them all in generosity, that of eleven million dollars to Harvard University to establish the House Plan. Evidently such restrictive stipulations may be considered by some, as President Little in the case of the stipulated donation to the University of Michigan, unnecessarily to hamper the authorities in attaining the general objective with the best possible results...
...they receive a diamond worth $175. If they pay $2 a week for 100 weeks they get two diamonds, worth $350. The company reserves the right to make a cash settlement at any time after eleven installments have been paid, this settlement to consist of a refund with the generous interest of 37-3%. This repayment-with-interest appears to have overshadowed the jewelry portion of the business. Hundreds of dollar-a-week investors have had their partial payments refunded at interest...
...poor taste," has brought about the foreclosing of the heavy mortgage which the editors of the oldest college comic sheet have carried for years and which nearly caused the bankruptcy of the paper in 1926. In that crisis, the publication was saved from failure only by the contributions of generous alumni...
...generous cooperation of Professor Salvemini has placed at the disposal of the History department a potent instrument for the further liberation of College courses from the somewhat solitary confinement characteristic in the past. His intimate personal contact with the actualities of his field fits him peculiarly for his part in the present effort towards a pedagogical method which transcends the restrictions of an artificial unity...