Word: ought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...news and make him a welcome guest, for this is the house of friendship. He wants your news and he likes boys, else he would not have come. Old men are more shy of boys, than boys of old men. I have been one and am the other and ought to know. Like the Arabs, nail wide open your doors and offer freely to all comers the sait of hospitality, for it is a great and a charming virtue...
...critical article on "English and American University Athletics," by John Corbin '92, appears in the October Outing, and ought by reason of its practical value to attract wide attention. The author knows his subject thoroughly, having represented one of the numerous colleges in football and the University itself in track athletics...
...hammer throw ought to go to Boal, who is in fine condition and has done over 135 feet every day for the last week. Neither of the Englishmen are above the average at home, where the standard is not as high as in America...
...toward the corrupt use of money in our elections and in our representative bodies. . . . There can be no reverence for law where laws and law makers are bought with money, and I fear we are rapidly destroying the possibility of such reverence in the minds of our countrymen. We ought never to forget that in democratic governments the black flag of corruption is apt to be followed by the rd flag of anarchy." The article closes with expression of confidence in the ultimate awakening of the nation's conscience to higher ideals...
...thing, but when a young man receives his railroad and hotel expenses for taking part in even one game, he is violating the letter of the rule. When there is any doubt in the mind of a student as to his standing in a game he ought for the good name of the University to stay out of it. Yours very truly, IRA N. HOLLIS...