Word: ought
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...three weeks earlier than usual. The clubs give so few regular concerts in Cambridge that these Yard concerts are now about the only opportunities given the students to hear them and as a result they have always been well attended in the past. A good sized crowd ought to be in the Yard tonight to show the members of the clubs that their music is enjoyed as much as ever...
...generous and thoroughly representative support of a crew, financially as well as in other ways, helps to strengthen class loyalty and arouses the members of the crew to do their very best. For these as well as for the material reasons, all those Freshmen who have not done so ought to contribute to the support of the crew, each as much as he can afford; and those who have already subscribed should not think it out of the question to do so again now that their crew is really in need of their further support...
...those who have signed for tickets neglected thus far to purchase them, but over half of the class has not even signified its intention of attending the dinner. The mere fact that the dinner is sure to be a pleasant affair and that several good speeches will be made ought alone to draw a large number of men; but the knowledge that this is the first occasion on which all the members of the class are given a chance to come together and see one another for more than a few minutes at a time and that the affair will...
...careful preparation: preparation not only of the speakers when they are chosen, but of all who speak in the debating courses and in the weekly club debates. Constant practice must be regarded as all important. It is not only an indispensable condition to success in the intercollegiate contests, but ought to be considered the main part of the debating activity in which these contests are only stimulating incidents...
...sure to receive the same kind of a set-back in the eyes of the public,- to a smaller extent,- as that caused by defeat in a regular intercollegiate debate. This is so manifestly unfair to students who are not members of the particular club interested that some means ought to be taken to prevent its ever happening again...