Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposes to deliver his addresses in German, as he speaks no English; it is easy to see what service he can render students brushing up for their Orals. His idea of coming over is a profitable one. Because there are so few lecturers in the business today, Von Muecke ought to be encouraged. He should come, and bring along Boy-ed, Bernstorff, Tirpitz, and the Crown Prince. The solution of the reparation problem is in sight...
...undergraduates, has been deeply divided over the question as to whether the Society's Reading Rooms should take in "La Vie Parisienne" or not. Highly moral arguments were produced on one side. It would be bad for Cambridge morals, it would ruin the friendly feeling which one ought to feel for France if so improper a French paper were taken in. People would get from it quite a wrong impression of French character. The supporters of "La Vie" maintained that the paper was quite harmless;--though to the pure all things apparently were impure. They pointed out that...
...collection. Part of the scheme for attracting money consisted of a mock circus consisting of undergraduates dressed up in the skins of animals who paraded the town making appropriate noises. The evening was much quieter than usual and very few bonfires were lighted where they ought not to have been...
...ocean of frivolity has gained advantage on the shore of the curriculum. Perhaps a reaction long overdue may manifest itself. To be most efficacious this ought to originate among the students themselves, and no one who knows the pervasive but latent idealism in our college boys can doubt that, once the movement has started, it would spread rapidly . . . It would make the pursuit of knowledge actually come first in the life of the student; and a man's rating in the esteem of his fellows would rest upon the persistency with which he fought toward that goal...
...visit of the Moscow Art Theatre to New York in January. Boston has just felt the effects in the arrival of "He Who Gets Slapped". The Dramatic Club here, in selecting Andreyev's "The Life of Man", has acted with foresight. Even if it had no other ballast, it ought to sail smoothly to success on the rising tide of Russianism...