Word: ought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...real principle ought to be that a Harvard game is a University event; that what supports the teams is the enthusiasm of the whole body of undergraduates and graduates; that the contributor to athletics does not contribute in order to get the preference of tickets, but for the furtherance of a sport in which he is interested. The present system does not secure an audience which is distinctly from the University communities: near me on the grand stand sat scores of people who were simply members of an outside public interested in a great sport. It is right...
...efficiency of any system for distributing tickets must be measured by what it effects, and in the general rejoicing over the success of the game, we ought not to forget that we have still to evolve a method of assigning seats at great games under which the advantage of a connection with Harvard shall be enjoyed by Harvard graduates, without personal preferences, except to the Corporation and Overseers, where preference is well, to participants in the game, as players and coaches, to purchasers of special Athletic Association tickets which are a general subscription to athletics, and to undergraduates. No club...
...there have not the time to train for a longer race, and the races have to be rowed in heats. Oxford and Cambridge, as has been mentioned, row considerably more than four miles. If our English friends can do it, I for one think the American college rowing men ought to have the stamina, and I believe they have it. To many people, it is a source of great humiliation that the Englishmen are so much superior to us Americans in contests involving endurance. Here, in rowing, we have the finest test of endurance that there is. We should...
...marshalships are, in the main, honorary positions, and ought to be given to the men that the Class considers most deserving of recognition. The first marshal presides at the Class Day exercises in Sanders Theatre...
...assert with reason that they are worthy of the attention of thoughtful readers." Nor is it too much to say that all the poems in the volume have considerable merit, and that the majority of them are decidedly better than the verses printed in the present-day magazines. It ought to be a matter of satisfaction and pride that they are the work of Harvard...