Word: generous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...though in the latter case, the means are not yet at hand. The establishment of a "Retiring Allowance Fund" on such a scale as to enable the Corporation to fix a retiring age for all officers of the University, is a cause which President Eliot thinks most worthy of generous assistance...
...provost urges that the average age of young men entering college is still too high. This has a tendency to turn students into the professional schools without a preliminary college course. He closes with a reference in detail to the many needs of the university and urges generous consideration of its purposes from friends, alumni and from the state...
...generous sum of $30,000 has been deposited with the Mercantile Trust Company of New York by J. H. Hyde of the class of '98. as a permanent lecture fund for the Cercle Francais. The interest on the sum will be used to bring to Harvard every year a distinguished French man-of-letters, who will give a series of lectures on French art, literature or history...
...another column is announced the establishment of a fund to provide the University with an annual series of lectures by a French man-of-letters. This extremely generous action on the part of the Senior who has established the fund is sure to be appreciated at Harvard and by the graduates. Nothing is more in keeping with the broadening purposes of a university than a project which will bring to the instructors and students the influences of foreign culture. A yearly visit from an illustrious French scholar, who is to speak to us in good French and from a fresh...
...acting, of course, was the weakest part of the production, but considering that is was not professional it can be called exceptionally good. Such acting is rarely seen in amateur theatricals and the French Department is to be congratulated on the generous services it has received from outside the University. In fact the way in which the title role was played by Miss Cushing nearly lifted the acting to the level of merit of the music and the costumes...