Word: owed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reception for the members of last year's victorious baseball team will be held in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. That Yale's nine last year was one of the best in the history of that college is unquestioned, and we owe an especial tribute to the men who by their fighting spirit defeated that team in the face of great odds...
...Lampy, then, who should be very proud of his children, and to the author and the artist, the aforesaid children, who are very modest, our Harvard world and the bigger world outside, too, owe a great debt of gratitude (which should be accompanied with a cash reward) for giving us in so trim a little book the Alice sketches, which make memorable this year's volume of our jester. Dear Lampy (forgive this touch of sentiment: it is genuine), to how many generations have you brought laughter and fun. Not that you are always funny...
...owe the community the duty of being a scholar and in this we rely upon you and trust you, and the authorities of the University stand always ready to help...
...unusual honors conferred by the French and German governments reflected the highest credit on the University which he served. As the founder and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, he added enormously to a formerly meagre knowledge concerning meteorology and climatology. And it is chiefly to him that we owe what advancement has lately been made in the study of the air in relation to aerial navigation. Professor Rotch will long be remembered as a pioneer in that branch of scientific knowledge of which we have so far seen only the beginnings...
President Taft stands for our present forms of government; Theodore Roosevelt '80 advocates direct legislation. Many of the men who have been closest to the ex-president and who greatly admire him personally have found it impossible to subscribe to the doctrines of his Columbus speech. We owe Mr. Roosevelt a great debt for awakening the public conscience in this regard to the illegitimacy of many large fortunes. But the reforms which are necessary can be accomplished best if they are enacted by a conservative representatives body, rather than in the heat of popular passion. The conservatives of the country...