Word: ought
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...special interest to men engaged in photography for college newspapers ought to be the taking of athletic pictures showing close finishes in track and crew races. The result of these photographs often entirely upsets the decision of the judges...
...annually to the best all-around man in, say the Junior form or grade at school. They hold dinners and meetings inviting perhaps the football team, perhaps the whole Senior class, or everybody, and have prominent Yale or Princeton men talk to them, and tell them why they ought to go to Yale or Princeton, and invite them to come down and see the place, and see that they have a royal time if they do. The fellows keep in touch with their personal friends or fraternities perhaps, and whenever opportunity is presented, do some persuading...
...word of general criticism may not be out of place here. Although the essays are good in content, there is a noticeable lack of style in them, a defect surely worth remedying. Again, verse of a higher quality ought to be procurable in a college as well provided with poets as Harvard. This issue of the magazine is above all, lacking in stories of compelling interest, although "Chowder" is an approach to what might be done in this direction...
...helpful to bring to the undergraduates of today a consciousness that they have a backing of graduates whose memories in the aggregate cover nearly half a century of track athletic history at Harvard. These men follow year by year with keen interest the fortunes of our track team. It ought to mean something to the management of today to realize that they have such a sum total of good wishes and good-will...
...takes sufficient interest in college sports to go out for one of the teams, he ought to have enough enthusiasm to keep up in his studies. Yet college spirit in the past has repeatedly failed to prevent such disasters of academic origin, and there is no indication that it will not betray us again. Harvard captains have exhorted their faltering team-mates with indifferent success, probably because the trouble starts long before the season opens. It becomes apparent, therefore, that although the management can do much by watching prospective material in the college, the problem devolves upon the players themselves...