Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this year over 250 men have been teaching and leading boys clubs of various kinds. One man with musical talent is leading an orchestra. Two other men, one an H. man in football for three years, are teaching a class in tumbling, a subject in which a football man ought to be proficient. Several men are coaching basketball teams, others are teaching drumming, telegraphy, boxing, and wrestling, and still others Sunday School classes. Several men are reading to a blind student in the University and two men are reading to groups of blind workingmen in Cambridge. Men who can entertain...
Even if the national treasury were bursting with billions, the American Legion ought to hesitate long before saying "WE demand" a bonus for ex-service men. When the fact is that the paying of a bonus will be a decided handicap, the Legion, by its action, has put an unmistakable cash value on patriotism. Serve your country but be-mighty careful it serves you--not only by its offering you protection from injustice and an opportunity to work and live, things beyond price, but in terms of dollars and cents. How does this attitude of the Legion square with that...
With the reorganization of classes at mid-years comes another allotment of seats in the lecture rooms of the large half courses. This ought to involve nothing worse than a few minutes' wait before a seating list; but unfortunately custom has decreed it differently: seating must be alphabetical...
...number of men and women, some of whom are educators and several of whom are writers. They evidently brought fresh minds to their task, and their conclusions and recommendations are singularly unconventional. The chief one is mentioned above. Even lessons in mathematics or science can be, and ought to be, made a medium of instruction in the English language...
That the Faculty believes it is important to allow time for gaining a knowledge of this world ought to emphasize its value. It would be a fine thing if the tradition should grow up that Seniors shall devote most of their time to reading and other non-material pursuits, so as to reap the mental recreation earned by their three years of more concentrated study. With the tutorial system already firmly established in one department, with the general divisional examination for all but scientific degrees, with a judicious regulation of the stringency of concentration and distribution requirements, and, finally, this...