Word: ought
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fail for lack of support; for a study whose practical value is actively appreciated is much more earnestly pursued than a purely theoretical one. This is shown by the Law School, where the work of the average student far exceeds that of the same person in college. And particularly ought an elective in law to be given in the Collegiate Department of this University, in whose Law School an elementary knowledge of law is indispensable. It must be acquired before entrance, for no time for it is given afterward, and without it the studies of the first year cannot...
...monument to the Confederate soldiers at Charleston. What course of reasoning justifies the placing of this picture in our hall to the memory of the Southern dead in general, and excludes from the same hall tablets commemorative of that part of the Southern dead for which we ought to have the most regard, our own graduates...
Such an action would be particularly appropriate in this year of the Centennial; it would be an action, too, becoming an institution of learning, which ought to lead the way towards advancement and right, and most of all becoming Harvard, the Alma Mater of Sumner, who was the first to feel and impress on the country the duty of reconciliation with the South...
...idle to expect good time or interesting races as long as the present system is continued. The same men, at every meeting, carry off the prizes with little exertion, while in every race a line of dispirited stragglers, few and far between, bring up the rear. Some change ought to be made immediately, so that every one may have fair warning of what will be expected...
...course I do not suppose that all that has been said will meet with every one's approval, but what ought to be urged upon the Corporation and the students is the formation of some definite constitution, which shall explain the powers, duties, and responsibility of the Corporation, the Directors, and the Steward, and in which provision shall be made for stated meetings of the Association, at which the Directors, the Auditor, and, if necessary, the Steward shall present reports, and which shall give an opportunity for a fair, open discussion of the condition of the Association. I believe that...