Word: generous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Porto Ricans citizens of the United States. The press of the Island has expressed the joy that the people feel now due to such an important event, and there is faith in the United States and in the spirit of fairness prevailing here which has led this nation to generous action for the benefit of assailed mankind...
...brave man, the strong man, the generous man will receive that honor and fellowship which is the foundation of liberty and equality. The man who is the reverse will be judged with justice. If ever we inclined towards the vice of snobbery, if ever we weighed men by what other men said about them, if ever the faintest measure of false standards was raised among us, that is now gone. The democracy of equal service is ours to the fullest. We are preparing to fight for a great cause. We will honor other men who unselfishly are preparing to fight...
...principal need for the future is an adequate endowment fund. Under the present status the librarian must count upon generous friends of the University for the annual income. Due to the varying amounts of the gifts, it is impossible for the librarian to estimate his budget accurately for the ensuing year...
...publicity has had the effect of prompting several very substanial gifts wholly unsolicited and many expressions of enthusiasm on the part of Harvard's friends. These facts lead to the belief that when actual soliciting is begun, as it will be very shortly, the response will be immediate and generous...
...generous CRIMSON, with its profession of patriotism, has said recently of the Harvard Union for American Neutrality in an editorial entitled "Worse Than Slackers": "Suddenly a new group in opposition to Harvard prepared has arisen. It is called the Harvard Union for American Neutrality, a high-sounding idealistic name which successfully clothes the real spirit of this unfortunate movement...