Word: repay
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...more of these concerts every week in the warm weather. Undesirable publicity could be avoided by holding them in some part of the Yard which could be closed except to members of the University, and we feel sure that the size of the attendance would well repay the performers for their trouble...
...Wise-Woman, who carried on a flourishing trade in quack medicines, enchantments and fortune telling. Chartley had incurred the displeasure of the Wise-Woman, and she on learning from the supposed boy that the he was to wed Luce at her house on the next day, planned to repay him for his insults. She conceived the idea of disguising the page as a woman and marrying him to Chartley, giving at the game time Luce, the goldsmith's daughter, to Boyster. The following morning the masked wedding was cleverly carried out by the Wise-Woman, who sent each person away...
...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...
...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 precious thing in all the earth, with no transient endearment, but with his most faithful and abiding devotion. Third, he must be brotherly. College men have privileges...