Word: ought
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard debaters, therefore, have upon their shoulders no light responsibility. The University looks to them to reassert its superiority and to show once for all that the two defeats sustained were exceptions. All eyes will be upon these men, and if they win, as they ought, they may be sure of the gratitude and appreciation of those whom they will represent. The first thing to do is to secure a keen competition for the honor of a place on the team. May the best men get it, and then make the most of their opportunity...
...Whitney can surely do much to obtain this college support by personal application. He knows or ought to know, that the Harvard Athletic Committee is working for the same ends as he, and every whit as earnestly as he. Yet he has attacked individuals under the committee's jurisdiction, without giving them a chance to speak for themselves. The course he has thus taken runs the risk of error, and it tends very strongly to cause such distrust and illfeeling as to destroy the influence which he might exert as the ally of the conservative movement in the colleges toward...
...suggests mental weakness, that takes a firm grip on large numbers of Freshmen every year. They have to be told upon all possible occasions where they can do most to benefit themselves, and there is no end to the necessity of prodding them on to do things which they ought to have sense enough to do of their own accord. If there is one thing which can put a new man at Harvard in the way of making friends with his classmates and can give him a dignified and respected position before the College public, that one thing...
...good sound sign of a promising career. The power of strenuous application, of assiduous mental labor, I count the next in importance. The man who is fresh while others are tired, is sure to win an advantage in the competition of the world. Another mental trait which University life ought always to develop is independent thinking. Let a man think about the thoughts of wiser men but let him think for himself. Such a man will be self-regulating-quiet but strong-minded-not to be blown about by vulgar breath. Though such a man be reticent, his character will...
...what is more important still, when the athletic reputation of the class is at stake, there is absolutely no reason why every Freshman who is physically able to play football should not be on Soldiers Field every afternoon. That the squad is not as large as it could and ought to be is quite evident. Furthermore it is foolish to suppose that the incoming class is not up to the average in an athletic way. There must be more available football material, and as it is all needed by the coaches in their development of the eleven as well...