Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan proposes to establish an active agency with Mr. Daly devoting his entire time to the placing of students who want employment. It ought to be possible for every ambitious student without funds to work his way through Harvard. No effort should be spared to assist the kind of man who wants an education badly enough to work for it. This is to be the object of Mr. Daly's work...
...extreme is a thing of the pas. "The course system as a method of college instruction masses men into an educational factory. Its only result can be an approach to a standardized product. Humanity cannot and ought no to be standardized. Every student in college presents a different combination of characteristics which distinguish him from his fellow-students. The individual student should be modeled on his own personality rather than on a common ideal...
...admit that Shakespeare was worth reading or acting, has mellowed into a genial democrat of the theatre. Quite recently he has concluded that Shakespeare was his equal in ability, and now proceeds to lay down the laws of sound drama according to what "Shakespeare and I" think they ought to be, as expressed in the works of the co-equal stars. "For some years a conviction has been coming over me," says Mr. Shaw, "that Stratford-on-Avon is my birthplace." This is the greatest tribute he could pay to Shakespeare...
...National Union of Teachers, which also met last week and in which women have the most powerful voice, announced that the segregation of boys and girls in schools was "silly and unhealthy and ought to be relegated to the madhouse; a product of war and pugnacious prancings by the National Association of Schoolmasters...
Query? Is this publication rightly named? Ought it not to be called "The Polican"? The wholesome vein of incisive self criticism suggests not the gadfly but that other mythical creature that pecks out its own heart to feed posterity with the blood of its own wretchedness. It is a good thing for any community to be required from time to time to watch a procession of "penitentes" scourging their own backs. It saves the rest of us from the worst of all sins, the slo of complacency