Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is at present a bill before the House of Representatives, having passed the Senate, which provides for a Burea of Aeronautics and government regulation and encouragement of the industry. This bill, which is known as the Wadsworth-Hicks Bill, ought to be passed. The proposed Bureau will be of little expense to the government, and of inestimable value to the industry and the public...
Transit facilities should precede and not follow the flow of population, he continued, in order that congestion may be prevented. Future developments ought to be planned for the good of the public, not of the corporation, for the transportation of people from their homes to their work is a social, and not a business problem...
President Eliot, speaking under the auspices of the Woodrow Wilson Club, addressed 500 people yesterday afternoon on the subject of "The Function of Education in Heterogeneous Democracies". He dwelt principally on the various needs that popular education in the United States ought to fulfill, and concluded with much stress on the lack of any adequate religious training for school children...
President Eliot asserted that each pupil should acquire some technical sort of skill, either with tools, with the fine arts, with music, or in domestic science. Every student, furthermore, ought to be carefully and certainly taught the means of resisting the evils to which we are exposed on the earth, "particularly those parts of it which we call civilized. These evils include not only pests and infections, but moral as well as physical dangers...
...team or no team, the present activity ought not to be stopped. It is the expression of a strong desire on the part of the undergraduates for organized swimming. When Columbia and Brown universities go so far as to require a test of proficiency in the water before granting a degree, Harvard should act at least to the extent of giving swimming its proper place among the sports. This can be done only by providing swimming with facilities at the University on a par at least with the present equipment of every other form of athletics...