Word: generous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Princeton and Yale both cordially welcome Harvard back again into the foot-ball league. The Princetonian and News express almost as much satisfaction with the recent action of our faculty as characterizes the most jubilant Harvardian. These courteous greetings are expressive of a generous rivalry that speaks well for the contest next fall...
...financial report of the University Boat Club, published in our issue of yesterday, was interesting reading to the college at large. No one of our athletic teams is more worthy of generous support from undergraduates than the 'Varsity Crew. In no other sport are the college representatives so hampered by lack of necessary funds. A determined effort is now being made by the officers of the club to pay off the debt which has so long been hanging over it, and this attempt should meet with hearty co-operation on the part of the students. The present management is able...
...they regard as easy work. But they will even then accomplish as much as they do when forced to attempt hard work, which they never perform except in the most perfunctory manner. No plan will make the college career of lazy men brilliant. The advantage to industrious men of generous liberty of choice of studies, after they have made a fair advance in fundamental and elementary studies, is very pronounced. And the work of a college should be organized to meet the needs of the earnest and aspiring students rather than the infirmities and defects of the indolent. - Pres. Angell...
...school purposes. The Greek government has offered to present the school with a site, for this building, valued at $13,500. Prof. White, in concluding, refers to this proposal in the following terms: "It will be to our enduring shame if we do not at once respond to this generous offer of the Greek Government, and provide for our school a permanent and fitting home at Athens...
...many years with straightened income, he first made use of enlarged means in relieving distress and want, and in helping students who were struggling under adverse circumstances. He practised the most rigid economy as to his own personal expenses, that he might enjoy the greater luxury of a generous giver. He repaid the aid that he received at Phillips Exeter Academy by funds which, with their accumulations, now amount to nearly forty thousand dollars. He has been the liberal benefactor of Bowdoin College and of numerous charitable associations. He has stood between many worthy persons in various conditions of life...