Word: owing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most gratifying aspects of the campaign for the Endowment Fund is the generous and hearty response with which the call has been answered by graduates of other colleges. It is perhaps to the alumni of our sister-universities, Yale and Princeton, that we owe a special debt of gratitude. "It gives me great pleasure," writes one Princeton Graduate to the chairman of the Fund, "to enclose my contribution to the Endowment Fund of the University. Had I not been a Princetonian, I should have gone to Cambridge, and were I not a Princetonian now and working myself for her Endowment...
...owe to Harvard a loyalty that should not cease with the acquisition of a diploma. Any means of sustaining a more intimate connection of the graduate with the University should meet with the heartiest approval. Future graduating classes will do well to follow the policy...
...patriotism, his unhappy experience in the war is good evidence. Because, beginning in 1915, he insisted that the United States must have a trained body of officers, he was reprimanded and disgraced by the high military officials. The Plattsburg camps owe their existence chiefly to him. "Furthermore, General Wood is a man who can work in harness with other people; a man who makes his decisions only after consultations with others. As a President he would never think that he could govern the people of the United States without the aid of other minds. He makes friends and associates...