Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your editorial of this morning on the relation of Text Books to Jelly and the one several weeks ago concerning private appropriation of library books must express the sentiment of that vast group of college students who love books because books can be friends. But you ought to notice editorially that smaller groups of college students who entertain no such love, cherish no such fondness, for the sanctum of books. In the endeavor to please that smaller group, I suggest the following...
...Provide Clod-Shoes at the Entrance. Some students derive such subtle pleasure from hearing the reading hall resound with the click-click of their hob-nails on the marble edgings that we ought not to enjoin them to walk softly, but, rather, we ought to furnish them with clod-hoppers, the more to indulge that subtle pleasure...
...Chinese will ultimately come to understand Christ's teachings far better than we of the west. For one thing the Chinese place very little value in the efficacy of force. They believe rather in meekness and gentleness. Supplement this with the Christian virtues of kindness and intelligence, and you ought to get a splendid result...
There is no doubt that the election is an important one, and in its closing days we ought to see interest in the result much quickened...
Under existing conditions it is hard to see how any far-sighted Irishmen can ask more than the new constitution gives. An oath of allegiance to the King is required of every member of the new Parliament, but that is a form more than anything else and ought not to stick for long in the Irish throat. The Crown, too, retains a viceroy in Iceland, but he is governed by the wishes of the wholly Irish executive council. Except in the case of actual invasion the Irish Free State is not committed to active participation in any British war without...