Word: ought
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...class of '75 instituted the rush around the tree, '76 would have done away with it and no murmur would have been heard. Had '74 started the custom of delivering the very superfluous "Ivy Oration," '75 would have seen at once that one oration in a day ought certainly to be enough for men of moderate desires, and on their Class Day no such useless proceeding would have been gone through with. But since these exercises were begun by the class of -, and were thought by the next class of sufficient importance to be kept up, they have become...
...such matters, and his attacks upon me were so violent that, although I have no wish to enter upon a prolonged discussion, I feel that I am justified in saying a few words in my defence. With my opponent's premises I agree. In saying that Class Day ought to commemorate class traditions, he is unquestionably right. The present system of instruction, however, has rendered our own class traditions radically different from those of our predecessors. The Harvard class of a dozen years ago was a very different thing from the Harvard class of to-day. Brought together daily...
...ought not to expect to have more than one Class Day, and for a member of one of the lower classes to give a spread on that day, especially if it interferes in any way with a Senior's arrangements, would seem to be an infringement on the peculiar rights which the graduating class has by the courtesy of the other classes and of the College authorities. This courtesy has been so universal, that an exception appears very marked...
...Courant thinks that the necessity of bowing to college friends ought to be abolished. It says that a man whom you meet twenty times a day for a whole year knows that you know him; and it considers the convulsive nod and the sickly smile with which Yale men greet each other unnecessary and annoying...
...only been possible in this short space to present some of the most striking features of this most interesting report. It is a document that ought to be read by every graduate as well as every undergraduate, and it is safe to predict that, were it more generally read, the Class Subscription Fund would be greatly increased by the voluntary subscriptions of our alumni. There is an earnest, manly ring in the reports that shows how faithfully every one of Harvard's servants is devoted to her interests...