Word: owing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mark, they invested their profits in dollars, pounds, guilders, and other more stable monetary units. They not only did not suffer in the general financial break-down of Germany, but they also in a large measure escaped taxation. According to the German system of taxation, those who owe the largest amounts are given long periods of time in which to pay, while the smaller taxpayers must pay within a few weeks after assessment. By the time the larger bills fell due, the mark had almost invariably declined so precipitously in value that the amounts actually paid were negligible when compared...
...sorry that you do not feel the reasonableness of our position about the Freshman dormitories. It is not a departure from the past to refuse to compel white and colored men to room in the same building. We owe to the colored man the same opportunities for education that we do to the white man; but we do not owe to him to force him and the white into social relations that are not, or may not be, mutually congenial...
...present established, are from individuals, the Victor Chapman and the Fiske Fellowships, the Webster scholarship, and the Farnsworth Room. The Sargent paintings, placed where Harvard men, graduates and undergraduates, are passing by hundreds every day, stand as a constant and striking reminder of how much the University's living owe to the sacrifices of its dead...
...should not be canceled", declared Mr. Charles M. Schwab in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "I do not believe that the people of these countries want the loans cancelled, because they feel that there is a moral obligation involved which they cannot shirk. They realize that they owe us a debt that can never be paid, and that the least they can do is to return us our money...
...rebuilding of the Library of Louvain offers an opportunity f9r our students to help pay part of the debt which we owe to the first nation to stem the German advance. Professors from Louvain have taught at Harvard. Harvard's president holds a Louvian degree. The relations of the two universities have been close. It would be a calamity if Harvard did not take her place frankly and fully with the other American colleges in the movement to restore to Louvain at least a part of what she sacrificed in the great war." DEAN G. H. EDGELL...