Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard belongs to the nation, but it belongs particularly to Massachusetts", continued Dr. Slattery. "I think that sons of Harvard who live closest to it ought to have a deeper sense of responsibility for its welfare, and a keener joy in its achievement, than all others. Coming now a little closer to it, I hope to find anew the inspiration which Harvard always gives, and to do what I can to keep before those who may come to it, out of the group to which I am directly related, its unflinching love of truth, its courage in duty...
...easy to suggest that this is as it should be: perhaps the monitor ought to be (as he really is in practice now), the human element to make the machinery fit individual cases. Such an idea at once meets with popular favor. Why not let the monitor replace the deans in passing on causes of absence? He has the undergraduate point of view, and his mediation can save the overworked office much troublesome routine...
...need and filled it, that the editors gathered together most of the songs which any rational group of judges would agree upon, and that the book is compact, attractive in appearance, and as inexpensive as the Glee Club could afford to make it. The "Harvard Song Book" ought to sell well and keep on selling...
...right, no doubt, that professors should be "progressive" and "modern". So it ought to be gratifying to hear Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard say, in the contemporary classic tongue, that "we have been fed up on our ancestors." The expressive phrase in the mouth of the historian indicates he jauntiness which a Professor of History must show to prove that he has no old-fashioned ideas about "the dignity of history." Beautiful old Professor Torrey of the Cambridge of fifty years ago, who looked like an eighteenth century French Marquis, never dreamed of such felicities of speech...
...partial, prejudiced as they may be, are the invisible and inutile Truth compared with the illusions and delusions, the frantically swallowed calumnies and legends and lies that are the average contemporary judgment, by his adversaries, of a public man. New documents, new lights are often accessible to posterity, which ought to be able to contemplate with a calmer eye those old animosities. Why shouldn't the men before 1800 be painted, as Cromwell wished to be, with all his warts and wrinkles?" The New York Times...