Word: ought
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Question: Resolved, That the Civil Service Act ought to be by law extended to all departments of public service...
...purpose of college life?" he cannot fail to see the justice of the faculty's regulation. College life is free and easy, and athletics particularly so engaging that it is very easy for us to forget the higher duties we are here to perform. But intellectual culture is, or ought to be after the primary aim of college life. Athletics are well in their place-are essential, in fact, but just as soon as they begin to absorb the best of our energies, a halt must be called. And this is virtually what has been done. It has been found...
...well balanced, the feet planted firmaly against the stretcher, and the inside arm constantly moving against the oar and extending it. This will keep the button up. When fully forward in which position the knees should be open to about the breadth of the chest, the oar, which ought to have been gradually coming to the water on the forward swing (the hand pressure becoming lighter and lighter as it reaches over the stretcher) must grip the water firm, square and clean, the whole weight of the body being lifted onto it (not with a snap) off the stretcher...
...called careful attention to the subject in his last annual report; and still there is no response even to his appeal. Where the fault lies we do not know. The matter one of those in which the students themselves are virtually powerless. But wherever the power is vested it ought to be used. As long, certainly, as we are deprived of the fullest posible privileges of our library, we are parially rebbod of those, high education advantages which Harvard aims so proudly. Our faculty we feel assured have befriended our request-and the corporation last year certainly gave the question...
...promised well for the future. The work of the freshmen, while not of course nearly so good as we expect later in the season, was encouraging. The chief thing to be regretted about the match was the small number of men who were in attendance. The freshmen certainly ought to show more interest in the work of their eleven. It must be remembered that as a general thing training is after all dreary work and that a little encouragement from day to day will go a great way toward inspiring an athletic team to victory. Every freshman owes...