Word: owe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were ruled off the Princeton team at Cambridge. And yet, I fear, only because there is no such disparity in the score, there is mutually admiration and good feeling between Harvard and Yale. "Those of us who were in college when Princeton was the friend and Yale the enemy owe to Princeton our efforts for fair play and fair consideration, and I know that numbers of Harvard men are with me in condemning the action of the Harvard mass meeting as hasty and premature. Let us wait till the evidence is all in and sifted before casting...
...regretted, since these years will develop a new generation of American scholars, and will be no less rich in popular enlightenment, here in America in regard to the art and literature, the religion and the politics of the wonderful race to which we so largely owe our own civilization...
...able to do much to advance the interests of this department. A report has gone abroad in the college, due largely to an unfortunate misunderstanding of a remark of one of the members of the newly organized club, that the men who come to Harvard from other colleges owe no allegiance to the University. Such an absurd rumor scarcely needs refutation. It is true that the most of these men come here as graduates of other institutions, and that their first allegiance is due to these institutions; but that they are also loyal to Harvard, and are interested...
...come to Harvard from other institutions form a distinct class. As one of the most prominent of them said at the meeting, they feel that they owe no allegiance to Harvard. They come here as the graduates of other institutions for the purpose of continuing their work in some of the departments of the university. They are almost uniformly men of considerable maturity, and of extended experience with educational institutions, as well as with the world. Their attitude here is that of impartial, disinterested observers. Their opinion must, therefore, carry great weight with it; and it is a fact that...
...pleasure that we feel obliged to call attention to the present condition of the Pierian Sodality. The men who are at present the managers of the Pierian do not perhaps understand that a responsibility of no light weight rests on their shoulders, and that in their official capacity they owe it to the university to bring the society back to its former position among Harvard musical organizations. The managers, however, cannot be entirely responsible for the present degenerate condition of the Society in view of the fact that the members themselves have lost all interest, do not attend rehearsals...