Word: ought
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...following men, under the coaching of W. J. Otis, L. S. S., are hard at work in the Gymnasium, for the Freshman Crew: Messrs. Bacon, Brett. Harwood, King, LeMoine, Martin, Morgan, Page, Patton, Perry, Taylor, and Wiley. Any six of the above will make a strong crew, and ought to promise well for the Regatta...
...objection to this plan is the apparent injustice to any Juniors and Sophomores who may elect Senior studies. Will not the absence of Seniors throw the work on the other classmen, and if a Junior or Sophomore has brains enough to carry a Senior elective, ought he not to have any privileges granted the men for whom the course was established...
CONNECTED with this subject is another; the manner of taking one's meals. Memorial Hall has often been suggested as the place where Commons ought to be, and a writer in our columns has argued that Commons should be made compulsory. But to us the English method, where breakfast could be provided in the room of any student, has always seemed pleasant; of course the arrangement here, quite different from the English, would make it impossible for the College to do such a thing. But really, to prepare a plain breakfast not much work is necessary, nor to prepare...
...lecture-room can repair. Never free from interruption either by your chum or some caller, asked continually to do something foreign to the work that demands your attention, your mind at last takes on a desultory habit, to overcome which great energy is needed, - energy, too, that ought to be employed in studying, not in bringing your mind into a fit condition for work...
...general rule, be unanimous in voting Saratoga Lake the best course in the United States, and the citizens of Saratoga the most amiable people to whose hospitality they were ever confided. It is true that the New England crews will have to travel somewhat farther, but this objection ought certainly to be overweighed by the superiority of the Saratoga course over that of New London...