Word: generous
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...preference to the New York Harvard Club again seems questionable: many members of the Club have been extremely generous in fitting up athletic grounds and towards other college interests, but the general relation of the Harvard Club towards building up the University is no greater than that of the Associated Harvard Clubs of the West, who do not appear to have had any special privilege. Why should a New York graduate who belongs to the Harvard Club have a better chance at tickets than his classmate who has not joined that club, or another classmate who lives in Boston...
...interpretation and criticism of the New Testament, a work for which he was noted throughout the Christian world. He was not only a master of the New Testament, but he was a model of its teachings. His work influenced his whole life and helped to make him the strong, generous, open hearted man that...
...Gardiner M. Lane '81 has made a generous gift to the Corporation under which the Classical Department will be able to invite, for several successive years, European scholars of eminence to come here to lecture on subjects connected with Greek or Latin literature. It is hoped that the first lecture may be given in the spring, but no definite arrangements with a lecturer have yet been made...
Yonder on the Delta stands a hall built in memory of Harvard men, who gave all they had or hoped for in this life that their country should be one, and should be ruled in the spirit of a broad and generous democracy. So high were the hopes of these men, so strong were their wishes, so firm their resolves, that our land should be the home of a free, united people, a field for the full development of the human race, that they thought no price too great to pay for that...
...built in the belief that here also will dwell this spirit of democracy side by side with the spirit of true comradeship, friendship; but today this is a mere shell, a body into which you, Harvard students, and you alone can breathe life and then by a constant and generous use of it educate yourselves and each other...