Word: ought
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Academic freedom has found its sanest and most far-seeing exponent in the President of Harvard University. The professor ought to be absolutely free in classroom teaching on subjects within the scope of his chair. He ought to be free to publish his lectures or the results of his investigations, subject only to the qualification that what he writes should be uttered in a scholarly tone and form. He ought not to foist upon a class that is compelled to listen to him opinions on subjects outside of the field of his special competence, but this is a minor point...
Even in the imminent presence of the enemy, and while serving with their whole strength, Oxford and Cambridge can keep alive their old spirit. So much the more ought we, who have not been shaken so seriously, to remember and revere the academic traditions of the University...
Coach Donovan, in speaking of the prospects, said yesterday afternoon: "The squad is developing very well. Though we are still short on field event candidates and though not a single 'H' man is back this year, still things are going satisfactorily. We ought to make a good showing against Yale and Princeton, though the latter has last year's captain and four or five varsity men back. The University's best events will be the mile and the quarter-mile...
...should worry now. The Lampoon today unleashes a special number in commemoration of the wheatless, lightless, heatiess and generally lifeless days that food and fuel administrators have seen fit to decree. If it is still within the law to laugh and grow fat, the meatlessness of the current day ought not to cut down the undergraduate avoirdupois...
...obtain. Here will be an all-college Plattsburg to all intents and purposes identical with the training camps which the Federal authorities themselves created. If may be too much to expect that the college students attending will be granted commissions on a satisfactory completion of the course, but it ought to be possible to devise some means of letting the men know that their comment of hard work has not been entirely to vain or officially unappreciated. Boston Transcript...