Word: ought
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...object of the new regulations respecting the Yard rooms is a praise-worthy one. Almost every one is agreed that undergraduates in the College and the Scientific School ought to be allowed the advantage of student life in the Yard in preference to the older men in the graduate schools...
Catchings in the second rebuttal speech for Harvard, again declared the question inferred that where no national law is violated the President ought not to have the proposed power. The laws that have to do with our local needs ought to be in the hands of men who best know those needs. The affirmative to prove their case must, he said, prove that local self government is a failure. To grant the proposed discretionary power to the President means the establishment of a centralized government...
...substitute proposition of this sort is given a place on the incorporation ballets of November 21, the duty to vote against the Committee's plan of incorporation will be clear, honorable, and urgent for every man who believes that the legally effective control of our Society ought to remain vested in the student body of members at large. GORDON IRELAND...
...world, the educated man must have a strong and healthy interest in the affairs of other men. Mr. Paine, the second speaker, spoke upon the appeal which the needs of the poor in the great cities should make upon the interest of all intelligent men; Harvard men ought to feel what the darker side of life is. Alms are not the whole of charity. Successful charity must do four things: relieve worthy need, prevent unwise alms to the unworthy, raise, where possible, every needy person into independence, and make sure that no child grows to be a pauper...
Very seldom does a college paper contain an editorial more frank, timely and sensible than that in the present number of the Advocate. What it says is so true that it ought to be obvious to any thoughtful man; yet the subject with which it deals, the social side of college life, is so liable to misconception that it is a relief to hear it spoken of with such well directed candor...