Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This seems to imply that the college ought to do more than merely supply courses and professors. We are inclined to agree; yet we do not in the least favor making the college a mass of restrictions and regulations. No. But somehow more than one student goes through college without being awakened as far as his intellectual self goes--that bugaboo word "intellectual" again!--but there is no avoiding it. Fundamentally it is all the old problem of contact; because true teaching is what is necessary, and teachers work only through making contact. The resulting sparks usually start something...
Anybody, student or section leader or member of the faculty perhaps regarding such matters with lofty disdain, who sees in "English A" no more than the writing and correcting of themes; only a year's more or less superfluous exercise in English composition which ought to have been disposed of in the preparatory schools, misses, it seems to me, the whole meaning and purpose of the course. Undoubtedly there are, and long have been, section leaders in the course itself who have thus misconstrued its significance, and so have led their students to regard it with contempt. That would account...
Those members of the College who have unpleasant memories of English A will probably look askance at Mr. Gavit's article published today. If they do, they must remember that he is not talking about the English A which they took, but about the course as it ought to be, and as it is now the aim to make it. And the ideal which Mr. Gavit expresses, if it can ever be fully realized, is an ideal that will make English A a "foundation course" of inestimable value...
...Workshop plays has said that the continued use of such a small stage will produce a group of playwrights with a "20*12" technique. As for Sanders Theatre, everyone will agree that it is impossible. Stage hand, actors, playwrights and producers are wasting energy on obstacles which never ought to exist...
...Mission in Labrador, and the Harvard work at Robert College were narrated; and plans for the improvement and enlargement of the work at both colleges were brought up. A considerable amount of good resulted from this meeting, and it is the opinion of this committee that a similar conference ought to be held next year...