Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Siamese courtiers wagged their heads sadly. King Rama, they averred, ought never to have gone to Oxford and come home with that newfangled idea of abolishing his harem. The late King Chulalongkorn had had wives a plenty; and he had never had to issue such a decree as King Rama announced in the Siamese Official Gazette last week...
...time has long since passed when the part played by Athletics in the life drama of the undergraduate can be ignored. Professor Kennedy discusses this tremendous interest under four heads--first, the place which sport ought to occupy in the college program; second, how it ought to be directed by the administrative officers of the university; third, how the finances of Athletics should be apportioned and administered; and fourth, where the emphasis in college sport should properly be placed...
Workman at Ford's factory: "She's all right, but I think every man working his eight hours should ought to have...
...much easier to prepare a student for a definite examination than to stimulate his intellectual curiosity and arouse him from mental lethargy. The first is the miserable job of that parisite upon the University, the tutoring school. The second is the high duty of the college tutor. It ought to be a cardinal rule with tutors that the divisional examinations be kept always in a subordinate position in their discussions...
...Wickerham would say with the late Mr. Bryan that if such is the case, it ought not to be, and as a remedy he would propose a return to the "old time religion". The CRIMSON says that such is the condition, and moreover, that it is inevitable it should be so. The conflict of ideas in the individual of which the destruction of previously held moral conceptions is the logical issue, was described by Plato and his analysis reads as if it had been written especially for the present generation...