Word: ought
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...third speech for the affirmative, R. LuV. Lyman said: We of the affirmative have no desire to abandon the Monroe doctrine; we simply say that when it works injustice it ought to yield. The negative has maintained that the retention of this small section of South American territory would be dangerous to the United States. Ever since its birth as a nation the United States has been surrounded cast, south and north, by the American possessions of European powers, and her interests have not been in danger. The gentleman has wisely overlooked in his argument any danger to our mainland...
...describe as "a few mistaken assumptions and several chains of false reasoning." The Sun may be totally mistaken in what it says concerning the graduate departments, but it seems to have phrased not only in "readable," but also in reasonable fashion some objections to the three years' course which ought to be brought to the attention of every man interested in the welfare of the College...
...President would undoubtedly welcome any honest expression of opposition to his opinion. That such opposition exists in the minds of a number of those undergraduates who have at all considered the matter, seems to me certain. It should not be forgotten that when the President says that competent men ought to attain the bachelor's degree in three years, most parents (who have a disinclination to consider their sons incompetent) will expect their boys to take this opportunity. Unless, therefore, it becomes evident that among the undergraduates, who are in a favorable position to observe the effects of the three...
...regret that he has neglected a great opportunity in pursuing that Three Year Idea which seems to be an academic incarnation of the national Spirit of Haste. To such a spirit, the chance which Harvard College has,--the chance to make her graduates the intellectual aristocracy of the nation,--ought not to be sacrificed...
Altogether, while a constitution is not absolutely necessary, it is a luxury which is inexpensive, lasting, with few or no bad effects, and several good ones; and therefore it ought to appeal to all as a desirable innovation. E. K. THURLOW...