Word: ought
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...study; another could have tables for games, such as checkers, chess, etc. A third room could be used as a small lounging room for private conferences and discussions. It was thought at first that the building should contain some bedrooms, but the advisbility of this is questionable, as it ought to have either no bed-rooms or many. The second floor in the centre of the building contains a small assembly room capable of seating...
...each committee who deserve to be elected. But if eight or more nominations are made for each committee, and a number of Seniors are induced to vote for candidates whose chance of success is small, chiefly for reasons of personal loyalty, the election may miscarry. The committee which ought to have consisted of A and B and C or D may in the end be made up of B, X and Y, for the obvious reason that the majority which should have gone for A, C or D was broken up and scattered...
...made on the merits of the question but upon the merits of the debate; that is to say, consideration as to what may seem to a Judge the intrinsic merit of either side of the question should not enter into or determine the award; but the award ought to be made to that college team which evinces in general greater argumentative ability and better form as speakers...
...next generation. However ready we graduates may be to take advantage of the privileges which have been given us, I am much mistaken if there are not many who feel that, when it interferes with the interests of the undergraduates, the present system is unjust and ought to be reformed. Edward Robinson...
...seems to me that this whole system which has borne such bad fruits this year is wrong. A man who plays in a game ought to have tickets enough for the people whom he wishes to have come to see him play. But surely this is all. Harvard undergraduate organizations are not commercial in spirit, nor are they like those in a political ward. The men who deserve favors at the hands of the College are those who would be the last to demand them, especially if they knew them to be granted at the cost of most...