Word: generous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...literary, as well as financial support from the college. We hope this support will be given. All college papers need support from outside, and the Lampoon no less, perhaps even more than most of them. Let the appeals, that have so often been made by the editors, receive a generous response...
...Springfield Union says: "The singing of the Harvard College-Quartet seemed to set the audience wild, and although they had a generous number of songs, encores were demanded and redemanded...
...night the great farce of the season will be produced for the third, would we could say for the last time. At quarter before seven the friends of the college will assemble in front of Sever in their generous hopes of getting seats "before the students come." At seven, or soon after, it is quite likely they will be seated complacently in the pleasant but not commodious lecture room...
...other by sleeping in laundries or under bowling alleys. As to the financial success of the scheme he is equally skeptical, his experience seeming to have been that the cooks got the greater part of his perquisites or wages, emphasizing their demands, when he was disposed to be less generous than they wished, by furnishing such poor food at the table presided over by him that the guests rose in rebellion. He was forbidden to talk to any of the guests and ordered to keep in the back part of the house. It is to be presumed that next season...
Resolved, That in his loss we mourn a man of good natural talents and handsome acquirements, conciliating in his manners, generous and benevolent in his disposition, and amiable in the whole tenor of his conduct...