Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasionally there appear students with outstanding abilities and independent interests who ought not to be made spherical; who should be left as they are--elliptical, oblong, or triangular...
...hundred years from now, some budding Ph. D. will write a thesis on "The Social Influence of the Automobile" and it ought to be a good one. What they have done to Harvard as a community is only an example on the large scale of what they have done to every American family. The bisecting of the college preserve, the destruction of quiet by the roaring arteries of traffic, is an incident common to every village and town. The coming and going, the opportunity of being somewhere else, that has a way of depopulating Harvard over the weekends...
...President: There is one law I should like to see passed. The President ought to be allowed to hang two men every year without giving any reason or explanation...
...Harvard's chief claims to educational leadership lies in the trend away from forceful, towards voluntary instruction. The fact that this has become almost a commonplace to Harvard men under the form of the Lowellism "all education is self-education" ought not to obscure the fact that there is still much to be accomplished along the general lines already laid down...
...rest was straight fare?Wagner's Rienzi Overture, Liszt's Les Preludes, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony; also there was George Gershwin's American in Paris whose absurdities caused the usual giggles. Suggested Critic Richand S. Davis of the Milwaukee Journal: "He should now construct A Frenchman in Chicago, which ought to be an even more impish diversion...