Word: owing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...closing, Professor Norton strongly emphasized the boundless debt we all owe to Harvard, saying that the only way we can begin to repay it is by making ourselves the worthiest men and living closest to our highest ideals...
...Graham Taylor, professor of Christian Sociology at the Chicago Theological Seminary, addressed the open meeting of the Social Service Committee in Brooks House last night. Very directly and forcefully Dr. Taylor explained the debt which men of culture owe to the laboring classes who make their leisure possible, and the way in which this debt may be paid back in most effective social service...
...attainment and capacity, at least the best service in their power. Individualism, carried to excess, is a danger of the Harvard elective system, and becomes an evil when men so far lose themselves in the struggle for personal advancement as to neglect the duties of help and influence they owe the men around them...
...against them? First, he must give the world his best. He must make it the aim of his life not to look for easy positions, but to make himself indispensable and invaluable in whatever position he fills; he must feel "not that the world owes him a living, but that he owes the world a life." Second, he must not take something for nothing, but must pay full price for what he does receive. He must repay the love of men with his own best love, and, above all, he must repay the love of woman, which is the most...
Louis How, '95 tells the story of his grandfather, James B. Eads, the engineer, a great man who did not owe his greatness to political success; whose greatness was of such a stamp that he was not allured by suggestions of political influence as a reward for brilliant achievements in another line. He was a man without schooling, but of great genius, and an indefatigable worker; the story of his rise from walking the Mississippi bottom under a diving-bell to the position of the leading hydraulic engineer of his time, and more than any other man, the river...