Word: ought
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With the mystic school of the middle-ages, religion became individualism. But individualism has worked so deeply into our hearts that we are asking if we have not been selfish. Ought we not to extend our religious thought to others? With such an idea we will come to the thought that Christ is the friend of the workingman, the politician and the economist, in helping them to solve present problems. So with denominational differences. If discordant sects could get Christ's spirit, their differences would vanish...
...therefore ultimately a religious problem. There can be no anthithesis between politics and religion because the nation is bound to the same Almighty as the individual. The great ideals, social and political, are the Christian ideals, not that others have not had ethical insight, but because Christianity supplies the "ought" by which men are to aspire understandingly. To affect the nation, the individual must be reached, men not measures, must be supplied, and the great influence for making men is the Gospel...
...suppression of applause is my conclusion, then, nor even repression; but only a sensible control and direction of it. A control which may make it the vehicle of a cordial expression of generous appreciation of every neat performance, whether by the friends we love or by the foes we ought to cherish. Let all allowances be made for excusable and inoffensive partisanship,--barring the unmelodious horn of cracked tin,--but in our partisan enthusiasm let us not overstep the boundaries of courtesy. Even among the ancient Hebrews, whose code demanded eye for eye and tooth for tooth, the stranger...
...determining the value of organized cheering at games we ought to consider...
...yard dashes easily. Duffy of Georgetown, although he competed in the preliminary heats on Friday, did not run Saturday. In the quarter-mile Dives ran a strong race finishing just behind Long of Yale, who came in second about two yards behind Taylor. In the half-mile race Young ought to have had fourth place but slowed up just before the finish and Orton of Pennsylvania passed him. In the 120-yard hurdles Bird finished close to Clapp after an exciting race. Bauer won his heat in the semifinals of the 220-yard hurdles but could only get fourth...