Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deciding honors or discipline-they have little use at all,-except for the harmless and desirable service of indicating to the student his approximate standing. And if its is true that scholarships are awarded for marked excellence and rarely depend on the mere difference of a grade-which ought to be true if it is not-the only practical purpose for which grades are necessary is determining probation-the one ting which absolutely should not depend on unreliable, unstandardized marks...
...thing exists, the true explanation is probably that that the duties of class officers, except in the first and last years, are mostly perfunctory, routine duties and that naturally enough, a realization of this circumstance does not inspire heated electioneering or eager voting. On the other hand, it ought to be equally clear that however mechanical these tasks may be some one must perform them. But the answer appears to have been found by the Class of 1925 in the postal ballot...
...passionate outburst, flays a legal system which demands the truth, but will use only so much of it as is applicable to the purposes of the prosecutor. In the final scene the writer of the anonymous letter is revealed, the husband returns, and all is finished as it ought...
...have strong reasons to believe" says the former Mayor, "that in the South Sea Islands there are fish that come out of the water, can live on land will jump three feet to catch a grasshopper and actually climb trees, and I figure that pictures of fish climbing trees ought to be profitable." Accordingly, he has organized the South Sea Research Company...
Such pictures certainly ought to be profitable. But in these jaded times one ought perhaps to remember that the Mayor and other distinguished officials are not without distinguished precedents. One might recall the original nonesuch South Seas Company itself. This, it seems, was formed in the year 1711, for the highly laudable purpose, not of educating the public concerning fish, but of sending English manufactures to South America to be exchanged for shiploads of gold, und for taking over and miraculously disposing of the English national debt in sixteen years. Parliament was favorable and Mr. Walpole, the Cassandra of that...