Word: owed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...foreign matriculates. The men here from other lands are the men, who, in years to come, will be powers in their own countries. They burn with a deep love for their homeland. Their impressions of America and Americans, to a great degree, are acquired here on the campus. We owe it to ourselves, to the University and to the nation, to meet and to know these students who are virtually our guests. We owe it to ourselves, chiefly because we can learn much from them that will broaden our sympathies and understanding. The Pennsylvanian...
...single illuminating contribution to this most vital topic of the world's thought. What we had a right to hope for was a leader who could tell us something of the great part our people ought to play in this new, throbbing world, something of the debt we owe mankind for our prosperity. Has Hughes been such a leader? On the contrary, he has shown himself to be only the old-time conventional campaigner, bent on "making out a case" against the administration. In his attacks on Wilson he has not once broken the monotony of his dignified invective...
...yesterday afternoon in commemoration of the 19 University men who have lost their lives in the European war, and in recognition of those men who are still engaged in various branches of activity in that war. "If these men see us here now they will appreciate it, for we owe them our gratitude and our respect. They have done a great thing, and we shall be the better for it. This influence which they have had will never perish, but always be remembered by the men of the University...
...world, now and then a man of fine spirit feels that he must go right out and do something to correct them. The spirit that moved Lafayette, Kosciusco and Garibaldi was keenly alive in this young man. The Republic of France will not forget him, and we all owe him a debt of gratitude for doing so much to testify to the desire of some of our countrymen to show an active sympathy...
...better or for worse. It is a mighty responsibility, this thing of determining the future history of the country, and those first voters, boys and girls, who don the habiliments of full-fledged citizenship when they take their first ballots in their hands and step into the voting booths owe in return for the new privilege that hence-forth is to be theirs, all the serious thought that they can bring to bear upon the choice offered to them. Four years ago they were on the threshold of their majority. Today they have crossed it. Four years ago their interest...