Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Manhattan, wispy-haired kitchen sluts, broad-hipped Irish cooks, trim, self-conscious society matrons went to school. Housekeeping, a group of capable society women had decided, ought to be a profession, needs trained executives and employes. So, led by Mrs. Richard Boardman, Mrs. Henry F. Patterson, they founded Scientific Housekeeping, Inc., a co-operative organization that teaches housekeepers how to treat their servants, servants how to be efficient and capable' workers. Each cook, maid, laundress, is instructed until she is ready for a job, is then placed by the Corporation in a position where she is guaranteed...
...Georgian England," a lecture to be given by Professor Edgell speaking in Robinson Hall at 11 o'clock ought certainly not to be missed. It deals with a period of English architecture where many of her most beautiful buildings were conceived, and great sections of the inimitable town mansions of London were raised in the cool, dignified Georgian ideal, which remains to us today as one of the most beautiful styles of domestic architecture...
...novel, most of these being comparatively recent (not ephemeral) and not bearing particularly on the general examinations, work which must have required an hour or two of reading daily. So great is the stimulus that good Seniors develop a grasp and peise and intellectual initiative which advanced graduate students ought to have but often have not. . . . Partly owing, no doubt, to other causes, one notices a great diminution in pose, affectation, trivialty, merely superficial cleverness, airlness, a change which is visible in college journalism...
...with the Lampoon back in the straight and narrow path, not the thin and feeble sheet of seventeen years ago (and earlier) but a good, honest wad of text pages and advertisements, its subscribers have become its friends and all others ought to become subscribers without delay. Harvard deserves a first rate magazine, and this...
...years unsuccessful coach of the Lampoon baseball team: "Of course I can't say for sure because I haven't seen the Princeton boys play. But from the way the Lampoon has beaten the CRIMSON ever since I've been around here it looks as though the Princetonian ought to win. (Ed. note: The worthy Mt. Auburn Street mentor has obviously become somewhat confused here in his statistics...