Word: generous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much for the gift of a convenient room, for the generous loan, or even for the fact that they have made possible a graduate dining hall, that the University deserves the highest praise. Rather it is because they have recognized and rewarded the students whose courage and perseverance so fully deserved success. Harvard men with similar ideas and the will to succeed will be grateful for the precedent thus established...
...action of the Corporation in voting twenty scholarships for refugee students has been universally applauded as a generous and constructive measure. However, these scholarships are contingent upon the raising of an equal amount of money by the Harvard Refugee Committee. The meeting planned for Tuesday night, with three prominent speakers, is naturally a splendid opportunity for persons interested in this drive to contribute...
Telegrams commending the drive continued to pour into the offices of the Committee in Adams House. Albert Einstein, a world-renowned mathematician and himself a German refugee, wired "Appreciate greatly your generous effort as aid in emergency and as humanitarian attitude." Frances Farmer, Broadway and Hollywood star, sent her best wishes, as did Helen Hayes, the first lady of the stage...
...some free, untroubled world. Naturally, this august ruling body is not enmeshing itself financially, for it has stipulated that no awards, which amount to $500 apiece, will be made unless the Undergraduate Committee on Refugee Students can raise an equalize. Furthermore, the University is in part covered by a generous gift of $5000, and it looks very probable that the remainder will be donated by some humane alumnus or alumni. Thus the Corporation assumed almost negligible financial responsibility and left the actual success of the refugee plan up to the student body...
...striking indication that under the impact of civilization's horror at Nazi pogroms the mills of diplomacy had at last begun to grind a useful grist. Mr. Chamberlain also said that if new surveys are reassuring 10,000 square miles in British Guiana may be leased "on generous terms" to refugees. Said he: "His Majesty's Government hope that other countries...