Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part of the house will dominate the reading room, particularly for the student of a quarter-century or so ahead, whose chief occasions for going to Roosevelt House will be on the unpleasant and materialistic errands of University life. This does not seem the position that a Roosevelt memorial ought to have...
...proclamations include a glowing announcement of General Hindenburg's birthday and an imperial statement of July 31. 1915, in which the Kaiser, commenting on the close of the first year of the war, declares that his conscience is clear and continues in characteristic style: "Full to thanks ought we to say. God was with...
...languages, and come out quite the University concoction. Glimpses and vistas, not real understanding, are being recommended for the "broad" college course. The student is getting the merest taste of the elementals of everything, and dropping the threads where they begin. His thinking comes to a halt where it ought to be starting...
...acquired understanding of fundamentals--an understanding that is applicable to the realities we are going to meet and the discussions we shall in future have a part in. The half-baked, touch-only-the-high-spots brand of "learning" now being "taken" by a good share of college students ought to be made a curricular impossibility. --Michigan Daily...
...school boy. For that very reason we should assume as a matter of course the strict and uniform enforcement of the few rules we have. It is hardly to be expected that habits of promptness and obedience will be a part of a Harvard education--and they certainly ought to be when there are courses in which a report may be handed in days after it was due. Such an attitude towards scholastic work is just the opposite of that adopted by men in college activities. There would be one thing only for a candidate to expect if he handed...