Word: ought
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...abuse prevalent here has long been a source of very general annoyance, and I have often thought that it ought to be brought before the College public through one of the papers. Still, it hardly seemed sufficiently important to call for an article; but I notice that in your last two issues you have established a department of "Correspondence," and here, I think, is the suitable place to make my complaint...
...recitations, also, that perfect justice is done us. This system of frequent marking eliminates variable elements, and I think it would also eliminate many of the inherent evils of the partial systems, while uniting their advantages. And if this or any other is the only really right system, it ought not to be left to individual discretion to choose any of several other methods, but there should be a more universal adoption of the right...
...very apt to find himself in want of friends too; but a person who does not talk of any lack of money is not generally suspected of anything worse than a slight tendency to avarice, which, on the whole, is a desirable characteristic. In money matters your policy ought to be this: to seem to have twice as much as you spend; and to spend about half as much as you seem to. You ought always to have a little money in pocket, and the fact ought always to be known. Don't talk about your money. Bragging...
...have one more bit of negative advice for you, and then I will end my letter with a few words of worldly wisdom about human nature and the way in which you ought to treat your fellow-beings. The truth is, if you will pardon a vile pun on that last sentence, that you ought not to treat them...
...never hope to win a race while we go on in this way. It is impossible to get up a decent crew while no one cares to try for it. The present captain is forced to spend most of his time in urging men to join who ought to have volunteered long since, and be now working for old Harvard with might and main. The captain is out daily with a scratch crew, good, bad, and indifferent, and is working hard with such stuff as he can get. The president of the H. U. B. C. and others have told...