Word: ought
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that a certain insidious form of silent pressure is brought to bear on such men to follow the crowd and enlist somewhere, somehow. A few men are anxious to enlist in order to avoid conscription. This attitude is in many ways reprehensible. It unjustly discredits conscription which, in reality ought to result in saving every man from the charge of being a slacker...
...tremendous moral value in our community today. In those who believe, however, rightly or wrongly, that the war with Germany is wise and just or, if not wise and just, then inevitable, or if not inevitable, then at least much the lesser of two great evils (and this ought to include every man who cannot honestly say that the outcome of the war in Europe is a matter of no importance or concern to him, because a dishonest neutrality is morally more reprehensible than war) in such men the desire to serve the nation devotedly and intelligently is very great...
...been founded in London. It will be the purpose of the association to provide the means of communication not only between the Yale men permanently resident in England, but also with those who are temporarily there. The general body of graduates had expressed a desire that such an association ought to be founded, since the need was felt for an active alumni organization in an allied country during war times...
...Society has been circulating a petition to the President, asking him to use his influence in favor of national prohibition during the war. Graduate students who have not already signed this resolution may do so at Phillips Brooks House at any time before 5 o'clock Thursday evening. Someone ought to have spunk enough to start a similar petition among the undergraduates. The President is waiting for the development of public opinion. Let every man do his part in its mobilization. EDWIN C. KEMBLE...
...there is great need for some substitute. Military training is not a complete equivalent to athletics, and even if it were, there are a great many students who are not in the R. O. T. C. and are hence deprived of all organized sports. Some form of intercollegiate contests ought therefore to be devised, something which would afford the exercise so many need, and yet would not demand unqualified attention on the part of the participants. We have had this sort of athletics before in the Leiter Cup series. If they could be organized now on a larger scale, they...