Word: owing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Merriman writes with bubbling enthusiasm of the winter quarter. The articles of interest on the last few months include one on the late Dean Wright by his temporary successor, Professor Smyth, loving and sympathetic in tone towards one to whose unfailing kindness all graduate students of recent years owe a debt never to be forgotten. Dean Haskins is welcomed in a cordial editorial. Mr. R.H. Dana as laudator temporis acti shows that last year's success in rowing is due to a return to earlier ways. Professor Jackson gives a review of the work of the late Wolcott Gibbs...
...Eliot pointed out that our Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was established four years before that at Johns Hopkins University; but the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was first offered by examination to students of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. This is something our scholars will always owe to Yale. The Business School is the first graduate department to begin by demanding a degree for admission, and the number of its special students is usefully large. It is a great satisfaction that the school has shown such promise of growth...
...afford to give relatively large sums to the class fall to do so, the more conscientious ones will be bearing much more than their share of the burden. The only just expectation is that every man give just as much as he can afford and no more. Seniors owe this duty to their class, and careless postponements of the subscription will unnecessarily complicate the duties of the Treasurer...
...owe a duty to visiting teams--one which should be a pleasure--to receive them as friendly enemies, and the committee which has just been constituted by the Athletic Committee can make itself very valuable by co-operating with over-worked managers. We bespeak for it the assistance not only of managers but of all undergraduates who realize our neglect, and have the time to do their part toward remedying...
...brief address, stated the aim of the meeting, and introduced Owen Wister '82 as one who in Undergraduate days was himself a scholar, who won his degree "summa cum laude," with honors in English, philosophy, and music; but dearer by reason of his books, for which all owe a debt of gratitude...