Word: ought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just a word in regard to sending boys away from Harvard. Take the really good boy who simply does not know what a day's work consists of. After keeping him on for half-year with an unsatisfactory record, we often say to him and his family that he ought to be taken out and given a good, stiff job. That happens generally at midyears. Sometimes it does not happen until the end of the freshman year. If it happens at midyears, the man can start in again in the autumn if he has made a good record for himself...
...program has in consequence become complicated, although our administrative machinery has been so adjusted as to handle it without unnecessary difficulty. We have now come to the time when we ought to review our experience, not with reference to its details but rather with reference to the general principles on which we have organized our work...
...whole time to it, and must give up any thought of improving his financial condition. Any thing less is not doing his whole duty to government. It is, of course, possible for a man to be active in private professional affairs and also active publicly, but such a man ought not attempt to hold public office for long periods...
...What we need primarily, of course, in this country, is a more general interest in government", he said. "Men and women, no matter how busy, ought to take an interest in the issues of the day and ought to turn out to register their opinions in both primaries and elections. Next to this, we need as many honest and intelligent men in professional politics...
...Secretary of State, spoke vainly on behalf of him and U.S. justice. Later Prosecutor A.C. Hart was persuaded to reduce his bail to $5,000, which was found for him. As Weisbord left the jail, Mr. Hart was heard to say: "Instead of throwing these men into jail we ought to give them a good dousing in the river...