Word: debts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...difficult and fatiguing task. They have devoted themselves untiringly to the interests of Harvard, sacrificing their private pleasure to the welfare of the university. College men must not look on thoughtlessly, as many are apt to do, and consider it all a matter of course. They must remember the debt of gratitude due to those less conspicuous, but no less faithful and important workers, than the crew-the coaches, to whom the CRIMSON tenders the hearty thanks of the university for their year's service...
...lives of these men teach us the beauty and loveliness of work, and of utter unselfish devotion to country and fellow men. They remind us of our duties as citizens of the republic. The problems of today are harder than those of slavery and the public debt; we must work side by side with others, learning and teaching. The idle and indifferent are the dangerous ones...
...stated that there will be no Columbia 'varsity crew this year. The boat club is in debt quite heavily, and as the students think Columbia's chances of success in the races with Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania are poor, they are unwilling to undergo the expense incident on getting a crew in condition for a race...
...work. Developing trays of all sizes, hypo tanks, graduates, scales, wash-boxes, gas and running water, are at the disposal of members. The sink has been lined through out with zinc, making leakage an impossibility. What the club now needs is an enlarging lantern and more lockers. A small debt remains, which will probably be raised before summer, and it is hoped that an enlarged membership will enable the club to increase the dark room accommodations...
...railroad reformer is how to allow each of these two farces, conservatism and enterprise to assume their relative positions in the best manner possible. The speaker then spoke of the building of the Wisconsin Central road to Lake Superior by eastern capitalists some years ago, their large bonded debt, the attempt of a few of the largest stockholders to depreciate the value of the stock and buy it up at their own price, and their failure. Mr. Abbot thought too that a railroad foreclosure was a barbarous way of settling the difficulties of a road...