Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...association representing the other side of this morality question. We incline altogether too much in one direction; we are becoming too staid, too learned. Some society which can be called `The Harvard Society for the Propagation of Vice,' or `The Harvard Society for the Suppression of Virtue in Undergraduates,' ought to be established before we become too wedded to our rut. I should recommend that the active members of this society should be undergraduates alone, but I think, at the same time, that it will be well to insure the success of the enterprise by making the members...
...ought to be pleased. It will give you another reason to oppose me," teased Mussolini...
...Ought to have known it was too good to last...
Gentlemen: I do not think I care to continue my subscription of TIME. The stereotyped, encyclopedic account of the week's happenings be comes monotonous to me. There is much in it about which I do not care a great deal. I ought to, but I don't. One might read its book section and still be woefully ignorant of current publishings. For books, I depend on the book section of The New York Times. When I have read a New York daily, The Outlook and my special publications in Science. TIME contains nothing of interest...
...point is this: What the country needs, what Williams College needs, is a clarification of the purposes of a higher education. College training, as someone has aptly said, ought to teach a man not how to make a living but now to live. There must be a division of functions. It the man of today wants to know both how to live and to make a living, he must study both, and we doubt if there can ever be an institution that can teach both. Let our colleges quit this half-hearted attempt at supplying the popular demand for practicality...