Word: ought
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spite of the long recognized desirability of arousing greater interest throughout the University in contemporary social and political movements the fact remains that the active interest taken by members of the University in the public affairs of the day is far less than ought to be the case. Among undergraduates, for instance, the amount of leisure time consumed in the mere discussion of political affairs is much less than is the case, for example, with the students of an English university. The causes for this condition are perhaps due, in some degree at least, to inherent differences...
...bill of expense. The furnishing is uniform, but in excellent, simple taste, and the whole effect is such that most graduates who visit these halls will, we are sure, wish they might go to College all over again, not only because of the quiet of these groups, which ought speedily to have a genuine academic atmosphere, with their fine lawns, their flower-beds, and their new-planted ivy; but because of the opportunity to meet and know all sorts and conditions of men from all quarters of the United States, and daily to break bread with them...
...that the Bureau performs its greatest service, excellent as may be the accounting system it has constructed. Any good accounting system will tell a business concern where it stands, but only through a central agency like the Bureau, adjusting comparing, and tabulating, can the concern be told where it ought to stand. A second edition of Bulletin No. 1 was required in October, 1913. Data at that time collected from 655 stores did not affect materially the figures and standards of the first edition based on 130 stores...
...oldest college in the country, having been established in 1636; and it was the first of the American colleges to expand into a university. It was founded in liberty-loving Massachusetts at a time when the ministers were the ruling class, and the whole community knew that their ministers ought to be well educated...
During the coming year the orchestra will have the advantage of improved facilities in the new Music Building; it has behind it the record of a season successful from every point of view; and it ought to maintain a high standard of artistic achievement in the future...