Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three of us settled into three hours of "grasping the fundamental facts." Well, I can't get too expressive here since they say that ladies are now reading the undergraduate literature but it was pretty bad. I took notes on what parts of the book he thought we ought to read and found that by reading the whole book I would have covered what was needed. And I took his word for what was more, most and very most important and tried to keep from sinking into a pleasant apathy. And at about quarter after eleven I new something...
...translated)?"I cannot say. You are the critic. You ought to know...
...meantime, before the work begins, we venture a couple of suggestions. The committee, when it is constituted, ought to be representative of the undergraduate body as a whole. It should contain one or more members drawn from each grade of the rank list. Too many undergraduate committees are "bottom heavy" from this point of view. Here is particularly a case where high-standing scholars should have adequate representation. Otherwise the committee's recommendations, whatever they may be, will be somewhat discounted in advance. And rightly so, for nobody cares what the lame ducks think about educational requirements which they have...
This courageous innovation ought not to be surprising. For Harvard is one of the most progressive universities in the country. And not alone in athletics. In scholarship also she--"she," for like excursion boats, colleges are feminine--she has distinguished herself by recognition of the long neglected subject of business. As compared with Latin, Greek, the Renaissance and plane (not solid) ornithology, the study of business is a tender plant, and must be watered if it is not to perish in all but a few enthusiastic garrets. The President, and good fellows, and overseers and superintendents and foremen of Harvard...
...alumnus, for all his hard-headedness, has yet to go the whole hog. He is still dealing in half measures. The desperate resolve of the football authorities at Harvard to perfect their team by putting electric lights on the field ought to spur the alumnus to equally rigorous action. His path is clear: football must be rescued from the paralyzing limbo between amateurishness and professionalism. Much as he might sigh for the old days, it is obviously, too late to regain for the game a lost amateur standing. The present status is impossible. Onward, then to a business basis...