Word: ought
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...right of all mankind; it is a privilege gained for us by eight generations of men who sacrificed and toiled for just and equal laws that the citizen might have freedom to develop his powers, that our government might be a true democracy. We, their descendants and heirs, ought to feel responsibility for the suffrage thus obtained...
...understood that the Corporation intends to have toilet facilities installed on the third floor in each entry of Thayer. This is, of course, a step in the right direction, but it will by no means make the conditions what they ought to be. It is not the high rent that has kept the Yard rooms from being filled in past years: the heating, bathing, and toilet facilities have been responsible. The aggregate cost of making the needed improvements in these buildings may be considerable, but a comparatively small rent advance would make it a profitable investment. This year the Juniors...
...Pascal, Comte starts with a consideration of human nature; Pascal, however, thinks there is in human nature something which surpasses nature proper and directs man towards God; where as Comte considers human nature self-sufficient, and belongs to the category of men who follow the advice of Voltaire; "We ought to cultivate our goodness...
Pascal, however, went too far and turned religion to asceticism; we ought rather to try to unite nature with spirit by mingling with nature and men. Nature is not altogether corrupted; it has its good sides, and they are not all reserved for the future. As Emerson says, "The sun shines today also...
Enforced attendance on college exercises, especially lectures, has for a long time been a source of disagreement between the authorities and the students. But the fact that attendance has to be enforced ought to raise the question of the justice of such a proceeding. Is it fair to force students to attend lectures if they do not find the lectures worth attending? It may not be possible to make all academic lectures attractive, but it should be possible to make them so valuable that the student would regard a cut as a misfortune, rather than as a liberation. It need...