Word: owe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...serve under him the loss is immediate and personal. Our debt to him is twofold. Each of us has profited, by the daily contact with a masterful personality, by the stimulus of a high-purposed leadership, by the example of a marvelous industry. This is the debt we owe as individuals...
...women engaged in a common work we owe another debt-a debt that is shared by all workers in libraries. To the administration of libraries he brought abilities of such an order as had rarely if ever before been so devoted, and he proved that such abilities are not wasted but on the contrary are demanded in the care of books. Whoever, therefore, shall devote himself to the care of books must find his work dignified, his place in the community elevated because of the life-work of Justin Winsor...
...bestirring themselves for the sake of their class, and for the sake of their college-for it deeply concerns the prestige of the University itself to maintain the high Freshman athletic record of the past-would do well to enter the competition for places on the Freshman team. They owe it to the college, to their class, and as a mere question of intelligent policy, of self interest if they will, they own it to themselves...
...CRIMSON take this last opportunity of wishing the University Eight that success tomorrow to which its hard and faithful work entitles it; and of acknowledging, as best it can, the debt of gratitude which all Harvard men owe to Mr. Lehmann in return for what he has done, particularly for the rowing interests of the University and in general for the good of college sport in America. It has fallen to Mr. Lehmann to teach us all the lesson of true sportsmanship: to treat opponents with fairness and courtesy, and to strive to the end that the best team...
...society today is the alienation of two parts. Men overlook the supreme good in their zeal for material success. The note of greatness is absent from our progress, and the organizing power of moral impulse is gone. That we are better than people of a century ago we owe to our fathers, who have left us a goodly heritage of sturdy virtues, and this it is our duty to transmit to our descendants with increased worth...