Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kent '25, J. G. H. Pell '26 and G. J. Farrelly '26, the Crimson starters, are all expert horsemen, and all three have played a good deal of outdoor polo. Although the indoor game is vastly different, this fact ought not to handicap the University players. In a practice contest at the Armory before the holidays, Captain Clark's trio defeated the 110th Cavalry 8 to 2. During the Christmas recess, the Harvard riders assembled informally at Pinehurst, N. C., and won two games out of three from the Sandhil Polo Club...
...past, iron-clad, watertight preventive measures are not desirable, as they would handicap all the honest students and immensely increase the tasks of the Library attendants, who have their hands full as it is. But some reasonably severe treatment ought to be accorded the offenders, who in spite of their scarcity still manage to cause confusion and inconvenience. Mr. Lane, the librarian, in barring such men from the Library until after the Midyear period has chosen the punishment with justice. Those who fail to regard the privileges of others deserve to lose their...
...Whether one approves or opposes the present plan, he ought to welcome the 'opportunity which is offered for a general expression of opinion and for the registration of Americans' attitude much more specifically than is possible in case of an election where so many wishes are entertained...
...With any plan for limitation, every appropriate means of ascertaining the qualities of an applicant ought to be employed. All this involves a grave responsibility for the authorities . . . but one which they should not shrink from assuming...
Then Otto Hermann Kahn, chairman of the Board of Directors, made a speech. Said he: "Instead of addressing you [Scotti] in dry, measured terms, the right way to handle this ceremony would be a pantomime with music, somewhat on the lines of Coq dOr. I ought to stand here going through the motions of making a speech, while lovely voices with lovely music sing an ode to Scotti and lovely women place a laurel wreath upon your 'brow. I throw this out as a suggestion for my successor at your 50-year jubilee...