Word: owed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Although Royce has a number of disciples who follow his scheme of thought in its essentials, he has a far larger constituency of those who disagreed with him and yet feel that they owe what is best in their thought to his stimulus...
...previous letter I urged that we owe it both to the public and to ourselves to make clear the reasons for drilling on Sunday. It did not occur to me to say, as your correspondent of yesterday suggests, that the order for Sunday drill was unjust...
...these has been surpassed by the event. They have all been found capable of making the greatest denial of self that men can make; they paid away their own life that the life of their fellows might be happy. To put into words the reverence that we owe to the young who have worked and suffered and died for us is beyond our powers...
...possibly have within the next ten years, a navy of sufficient strength alone to stand guard over our enormous coast-line? For I neglect any mention of fortifications which we have or might build, as being perfectly useless in repelling an invasion. We must realize that we owe our present and somewhat false sense of security to England's navy, but England is at war with the most up-to-date, wide-awake, and militarily progressive nation on the globe, and it would not be giving the nation which has already astonished us with such marvelous inventions in artillery...
...writers are fluent and entertaining; the editorials, deploring Harvard architecture and commending smokers, glass flowers and the Scholarship Service Bureau, are admirably expressed and sound beyond cavil. But barring that final sonnet, none of it, to drop into the vernacular, "proves anything." To Mr. E. C. MacVeagh '18 we owe our thanks for demonstrating that it is not impossible for an undergraduate to write good verse and still to remain aware of the big things that are happening in the world he lives...