Word: owing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...course in Harvard University, they voluntarily become members of a society whose good name must necessarily be affected by their individual acts, and that every principle of good breeding, or rather of common decency demands that they jealously guard the reputation of the institution to which they owe so much...
Every year a large number of graduates devote their time to helping Harvard athletics by coaching the teams. To these men the undergraduates owe especial thanks, and therefore it seems of interest to note who they have been this year...
There are scores of men in public life in England today, said Mr. Lehmann, who, like Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Asquith and Sir William Harcourt, owe much of their success as public speakers to the fact that they took part in these Union debates while at college. Here they acquired an excellent training by addressing large and heterogeneous gatherings, which cannot be acquired by speaking before smaller though more intellectual societies. Mr. Lehmann hoped that in the near future some such organization as the University Club might do for Harvard what these clubs have done for Oxford and Cambridge, not only...
...leading men of every denomination visit the University. As Episcopal Bishop of New York Bishop Potter is regarded both in this country and in England as one of the leading men in the Church today. He is an eloquent and forcible preacher, and all who can do so owe it to themselves to hear him tomorrow night at Chapel...
...hundreds of graduates look back upon it as one of their happiest. Class Day memories. The customs and traditions that are left to Harvard men are few enough, and we should treasure those few jealously. It may be too late for us to save this cherished ceremony, but we owe it to ourselves as Harvard men; we owe it to the graduates who have left the custom in our keeping, and we owe it to those who are to come after us, manfully and vigorously to protest against the threatened action of the Corporation...