Word: generous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Resolved, That in him we have lost a classmate whose frank and generous nature endeared him to all who knew him and whose manly principles and acknowledged ability gave promise of a useful and honorable life...
...title page of the quarterly, whose appearance we announce more fully elsewhere, declares that it is published for Harvard University. This is true; for the generous gift of Mr. Thayer was intended as a further advantage to study in the department of political science at Harvard. But few public questions have ever existed in the history of our country of more intense interest and importance than that which is at present agitating it from east to west, and a publication devoted to the discussion of these problems will have important influence over a far wider territory than the university alone...
...accordance with the announcement made by President Eliot at the last Commencement, the publication fund, established in the department of Political Economy by the generous gift of Mr. John E. Thayer, is to be used in aid of a new journal of economics, to be published under the auspices of the University. The first number of this journal will therefore be issued under the above title, on the 15th of October, by George H. Ellis, 141 Franklin Street, Boston...
...young Doctor and Bachelor, as she stood before the president and faculty and trustees and received her diploma, was a harbinger of advancing civilization, and of the constant enlightenment which makes this age brighter than its predecessors. Her presence on that academic stage meant that every opportunity of generous development shall be opened to women, and it showed that if Columbia College, cautious, wise, and much deliberating, does not refuse her honors to trained and proved scholarship and intellectual attainment merely because they appear in the feminine form, no other institution need hesitate. Where Columbia dares to lead, every college...
...more points in regard to our future swimming-bath may be of interest to the college. Some time ago a friend of the university made a generous contribution toward the building of this bath. Thereupon the college authorities placed in the hands of a contractor the matter of investigating the water supply which could be obtained for the baths. The result of this investigation was the boring of the wells which we have been watching from day to day near the gymnasium. It was found that abundant water could be had from these wells for the purpose. That the bath...