Word: debts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...they had received from her hands, and in a knowledge that what they gave would help some unknown person in the future over the same difficulties over which they themselves had been helped. One cannot go through Harvard with his eyes open without realizing more and more this priceless debt that he owes to those who have gone before...
...whom a realization of this debt of gratitude is brought home, begins to wonder how he can ever repay this obligation. If he went to the previous generation of men from whom part of his benefits had come, and if he should ask them what he should do even to begin to pay back all he owes, they would tell him not to consider the debt as standing against them, but to transfer it with interest to the generation about to come after. Most men are not in a position where they can give very much at once to their...
...should be understood that this leaving of one's book to the different libraries is only a way to begin the repayment of one's debt to the University. The other instalments should be scattered through all the rest of one's life...
...finances of the crew have been only slightly bettered, several men and the glee club coming forward with subscriptions. But there is still an urgent need for $600, without which the crew, if it goes to New London will be greatly in debt...
...another column there is a call from the Cycling Association, for candidates for the bicycle team. The association deserves rather more support than has so far been given it. For the past year or two the association has been laboring under a large debt, which it has finally paid off. At first its meets did not pay for themselves, but the club made up the deficit by raising subscriptions, and has now succeeded in making its meets profitable. This has meant a struggle to arouse in the college a large interest in cycling, which has resulted thus far successfully...