Word: debts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...travel. New York has been spending money like the proverbial drunken sailor. Nor is New York alone in its extravagance. Our Congress is appropriating millions of the public's money with scarcely an inquiry to find out how those millions are to be spent. The interest on the war-debt is going to amount to a billion dollars a year. This does not bother Congress. Like New York, it cares not how the millions are spent on pork, as long as they can watch a penny here and there to prove to the public how economical they are. Until...
Many of us are inclined to forget our social responsibility. There was a convention in the Middle Ages that the privileged class--the nobility--owed a certain debt to the poor. The titled nobility, we hope, has dropped out of our civilization; but there is still a privileged class; and while all men and women have a duty to the community, those who receive the most from the community have in return the greatest obligation. The danger is lest college men forget this obligation and regard college only as a help to personal advancement. Dr. Daniel Hunt Clare, speaking...
These statistics must show to the country at large as well as to college graduates the immense debt that is owed to the universities, and particularly to the teaching upon which every institution depends. Since 1905 there has been no increase in the salaries of the members of the Harvard Faculty. A man who has spent seven years in training receives only $1260 a year, an amount earned by the majority of day laborers. Now if over is the time to prove that "training the mind" is worth more to the community than "minding the train...
...owes the college teacher "a square deal"? Thus far in the several "drives" for endowment funds the alumni of each institution have collectively assumed the debt, thereby declaring a gratitude for professorial admonitions which they scarcely felt in their undergraduate days. A correspondent yesterday gave evidence that the mellowing fingers of time have touched others equally. Though he went into business without a college course, and prospered, he is not one of those who glory in being "self-made," but has always regretted his loss...
...become better informed on European problems and history. Americans have a fair knowledge of the British Empire, but of France and Germany they know little. France needs economic and financial help very badly. The war was a terrible blow to us; our most productive provinces were pillaged, and the debt we incurred is a heavy burden to carry...