Word: ought
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With a year's trial the nine ought to be more successful than before. The schedule is certainly an improvement over last year's because it does away with games with professional teams. Not only are such games distastful to those interested in college sport, but by leaving them out it becomes possible to play a number of colleges and schools with whom games could not otherwise be arranged...
...Memorial ought to be an ideal dining-hall. It needs only better board to make it so. If the Foxcroft Club had half as commodious or attractive quarters, it would then be a formidable rival in popularity to the older institution and there would be some justification for keeping up the payment of "head-money." It is a fact that for fifteen or twenty cents one can order any day a much better lunch at Foxcroft than is usually served at Memorial...
...Gown question, it must be decided by each class for itself. It a class is not decidedly unanimous on the subject, however, it would seem that the cap and gown ought not to be worn except, perhaps, on state occasions; for in that case, the advantages claimed for it, namely, the "democratic uniformity," the means of distinguishing Seniors, and the strengthening of class feeling, would not be attained. Now that Ninety-seven has voted to adopt the cap and gown after the spring vacation, it is expedient for every Senior to do his part in giving it a thorough trial...
...would expect, as the association grows in numbers, that the quality of board furnished at the fixed price would very noticeably improve. Each additional year of experience ought to enable the steward to provide still better board and service. Has such improvement been a marked feature of Memorial in the past? On the contrary, there has been of late a marked decrease in quality. Evidence of the quality of board furnished is found in the amount expended by the members for extra orders. The orders thus far this year amount to about seventy-five hundred dollars. A short calculation shows...
...Cambridge people who attend the public lectures at the Fogg Museum have not the self-respect to keep out of the seats which are reserved for students, some more effectual method of keeping them out than that of simply marking the seats reserved ought to be resorted...