Word: debts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Today is the birthday of the man who won France to the aid of the American Colonies in their struggle for independence--Benjamin Franklin. The debt we owe France can never be paid. It is not alone a National debt. It is also a personal debt of Americans to Frenchmen. This is best shown by a letter of Franklin addressed to President Washington, June...
...repay those barrels of gunpowder if the people stand behind it with their money. The Franklin Thrift Stamp Drive is asking you to do this. The appeal of Franklin: "for want of due returns, they being of great amount, has finally much distressed him," reminds us of our debt more powerfully now that France has sacrificed her all, than it did when Chaumont advanced us 2,000 barrels of gunpowder...
...would have thrown himself heart and soul into such work as this. . . . All of you who take' advantage of the opportunity to become associated with this work will never regret having undertaken it. It is up to us who have had special advantages of education to repay our debt to society by doing our part, and I know that Harvard men are going to make their contribution." Mr. Peters concluded his speech with a tribute to Colonel Roosevelt's remarkable comradeship and personality...
...debt which the University and the old R. O. T. C. owes him is great--it would be fitting to partially repay it, should a suitable means be found...
...possible that anyone could ever disobey him. Many a young officer in France today is the better for having as his ideal of what an American officer should be Lieutenant Colonel Shannon. The graduates of the Harvard 1917 summer military camp and the University itself owe him a great debt. His last words to the Harvard regiment on the platform of Sanders Theatre in August, 1917, were: "If I ever get any of you in my outfit, I won't let you go." The University is proud of having had him in its outfit, and will not let his memory...