Word: debt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this if it felt that the club had given what it could afford to give. But there is a belief that there was considerable unnecessary extravagance last year, that money was spent in ways that the glee club had no right to spend it in view of its debt to the college and the pressing need of the crew. No one objects to the club having a good time during the trip and after it, but there are a great many who object to needless and selfish extravagance. There seems to be a disposition in glee club circles to regard...
...that the success of the modern tendencies in Cambridge is, in the main, assured, the University and the country owe a debt of gratitude to the man who started the college on its new career of progress. Dr. Hill had a mind of remarkably strong original power, and came to see early in life that the great need of modern education was some method of imparting to the pupil power and knowledge, as well as learning. When he came to preside over Harvard College he immediately instituted reforms with this end in view. He caused examination papers...
...Extended markets of the United States; Learned's Report in House Exec. Doc. 1870-71, vol. 8, No. 94. - (b) Destructive English control would be removed; Dublin Review, vol. 35, p. 151; Bourinot; Constitutional Manual of Canada. - (c) Canada's debt would be assumed; Johnson's Statistics of Canada...
...political, social, and economic difficulties. - (a) Canadian Religious troubles; Forum X, 323; No. Amer. Rev., vol. 148. p. 667; Arena, vol. II. - (b) Race problems; Forum VI: 458. - (c) Difference in language; Critic VII: 165. - (d) Political system is different from ours; Forum VI, 458. - (e) Large and increasing debt; Statesman's Year Book...
...Republican policy has been unfavorable to a military spirit. - (a) Pensions given through gratitude have been called a debt: G. B. Raum, Pensions and patriotism in North Amer. Review, Vol. 153, p. 213, Aug. 1891. - (b) It has accustomed the people to fight for rewards and not for patriotism: Pres. Cleveland's message. - (c) It has aroused disgust at the mercenary spirit of veterans: Weekly Tribune, July...