Word: generous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passed the Fellows bill to admit 202,000 D.P.s over the next two years, a more generous formula than the Senate's discriminatory Wiley-Revercomb bill. ¶ Passed a farm-price support bill to continue present support policy until 1950. ¶ Received the Andrews draft bill from its Rules Committee, where it had been bottled up for five weeks...
...social, intellectual, or commercial ways. The Committee on Admissions has solved its problem of choice by compromise. While emphasizing the "democratization" of the College, the committee continues to admit a large body of men from a small number of private schools. These men, as has been pointed out, make generous alumni, and they therefore perform a valuable function while Harvard remains a privately endowed institution. Nonetheless the Admissions Committee should continue to work toward the most efficient and fairest intellectual entrance tests, screening out men whose ability to make use of the College is doubtful...
...Wisdom. The U.S. was strong; it was generous. Was it also wise? History would have to judge; at least the people of the U.S. were showing their capacity to learn. Though they were still busy with their own affairs, Americans were beginning to understand the hard lesson they had first learned at Pearl Harbor: that they were also citizens of the world and that good citizens are responsible citizens...
...Committee should be interpreted as reflecting in any way on the Band. The Band is an admirable organization, the best of its kind, and the College would be a poorer place without it. It has given pleasure to thousands of Harvard students and alumni and deserves their generous support. I hope and believe that ways can be found for getting more money for the Band and that it will receive the support it has so richly earned. W. J. Bender Dean of the College
...average of a little less than 100 papers per course. Since the Registrar's Office requires grades one week after the examination has been held, there is little opportunity for correcting papers thoroughly and in time for the students to see them. Fifteen minutes per paper is a generous estimate, for this amounts to a 25-hour work week. Moreover, in Government or Economics, for example, most of the readers are teaching fellows who have exams from their own course sections to grade...