Word: ought
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that permission has been given to have Theatricals in Boston, there ought to be no difficulty in raising all the funds that the Crew require, especially as the graduates have provided for $10,000 already...
...CORNELL ought to be satisfied, now that she has an opportunity to show the boasted superiority of her oarsmen. It is not a Freshman Crew that she will have to meet this time, however...
...such petty thefts occur only occasionally, the members will endure them with a patient shrug; but if, on the other hand, two or three men persist in habitual thieving, they ought, when detected, to be summarily ejected from the Reading-Room and thereafter deprived of its privileges...
...matter of fact, if arrangements can be made with Oxford and Cambridge, our crew will go abroad next summer, whether they are successful or unsuccessful in the Yale, Cornell, and Columbia regattas. It ought to be the aim of our crew to establish their reputation, before going to England, as the best American college oarsmen; if they fail in this, they are bound none the less to row the Englishmen for the honor of Fair Harvard...
...does on their excellence in their mental and physical capacities. Laying aside the respect due to their instructors, which is apparently of trifling importance to some, the annoyance it gives to those members of the class who wish to get some benefit out of what is said, ought to deserve some consideration. Good will and good feeling demand that. We would beg, therefore, those who show their appreciation of the Lecture by the exercise of their feet and not of their brains, to give a little better chance to those who wish - foolishly perhaps - to exercise their brains...