Word: ought
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Today is the time for undergraduates to show the committees who have been working for the most efficient plan of direction that the College appreciates their efforts and desires a winning team this May. Every physically fit man who is not taking part in any form of athletics ought to feel it his duty to report at the track house this afternoon...
...major sport. Such a showing is simply ridiculous, and should shame the undergraduates in College. The track competition does. Track as a sport is popular and important both in the college world and outside. Today's call is the first for undergraduate support. Certainly the shame of last year ought to be wiped out by a greatly increased number of candidates reporting...
Among the undergraduate body, the thought of democracy is farcical, Men come to college at the most plastic stage of manhood, when it would seem they ought to be willing to accept a man at his own value--according to that man's ability, his intellectual vigor, his social capacity. Is this the case, or is there not rather a wide gulf between those who live in the little frame houses in out-of-the-way streets, and those who inhabit the gold coast; those who make the clubs, and those who don't? One could hardly object...
Democracy is not the unmixed good which this letter might seem to account it. If democracy at Harvard would bring about a modicum of tolerance, tolerance of ideas of creed, social standing, intellectual ability, then democracy ought to be our aim. If it would bring about a closer relation of professor and student, a crying need at Harvard, it is true that the experiment of the Freshman Dormitories should be carried further. At all odds, a college less democratic than Harvard is hardly conceivable. JACOB DAVIS...
...that college professors are usually men of strong convictions and in part to the fact that not a few of them have a kindly feeling toward Germany by reason of their years of study spent in that country. Yet these men should realize that prejudice and bitterness of language ought to have no place in scholarly circles. --Boston Herald...