Word: owe
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...gratitude which we all owe to the New York Harvard Club for the kind manner in which they entertained our eleven can hardly be told too strongly. It is not a little flattering and encouraging to young men to be congratulated so heartily by men of whom not a few have grown old in reputation for more substantial than athletic reputation. The encouragement to hard work and unflinching purpose, as well as the assurance from such a source, that the cause in which their efforts are expended neither is nor ought to be despised by the best...
...discussion, a new consideration appears, which takes us beyond the Analy ical Idealism, so far insisted upon, and leads us to a second form. or to what may be called Constructive Idealism. The considerations upon which this final form of the doctrine rests are essentially those which we owe to Kant's Transcendental Deduction of the Categories...
...both of the 'varsity and of their own class. Consequently they assign all sorts of excuses as reasons for not contributing more generously. It is scarcely necessary to say that this impression is an erroneous one and the sooner they relinquish it the better. It is a duty they owe the college and their class to subscribe liberally to the maintenance of their college teams...
...meanly, or to surmount it. The exercise of surmounting obstacles gives to a person a mental and physical exhilaration which is lasting and ennobling. In a physical sense, after surmounting an obstacle, there may be a descent, but mentally and morally there is never descent. Many great men owe some of their strength to the obstacles they had to overcome. There are enough difficulties in the way of every human being; the best training any young man can get is a habit of grappling with them and conquering them...