Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merely look upon the American democracy as something that rests upon inalienable rights and universal principles, a paragon of excellence which the rest of the world ought to copy but does not. Hence our laws insist that the Constitution be studied in our schools and colleges with due regard for the sanctity of the text and with no taint of higher criticism, but rather in all its textual literalness--that is to say, in the same uncritical spirit that characterizes the fundamentalist approach to the first chapter of Genesis...
...arrived in this country just in time to predict that Tunney would win by a decision (honest I did), and I dropped the casual remark yesterday that Dartmouth ought to beat Norwich by the same score as last year (I hope you all read your Sunday papers). I also suggested that Cornell couldn't beat Geneva by more than six points. This is just to indicate to my now readers how good I am My old readers need not be told. And you all will know later that Joe Forecast is the same old Joe. I almost accepted a very...
...Arnold Bennett, who did not go to college, is in favor of a college education for authors. Robert Hichens wrote me: 'I nearly went to Oxford, and my two brothers were there. I wonder if I ought to regret not having gone...
...aiming at--the solid, durable satisfactions of life, not primarily the gratifications of this moment or tomorrow, but the satisfactions that are going to last and grow. So far as I have seen, there is one indispensable foundation for the satisfactions of life--health. A young man ought to be a clean, wholesome, vigorous animal. That is the foundation for everything else, and I hope you will all be that, if you are nothing more. We have to build everything in this world of domestic joy and professional success, everything of a useful, honorable career, on bodily wholesomeness and vitality...
...much larger class which has not that opportunity, is that the educated class lives mainly by the exercise of intellectual powers, and gets therefore a much greater enjoyment out of life than the much larger class that earns a livelihood chiefly by the exercise of bodily powers. You ought to obtain here, therefore, the trained capacity for mental labor, rapid, intense, and sustained. That is the great thing to get in college, long before the professional school is entered. Get it now. Get it in the years of college life. It is the main achievement of college life...