Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late years, a considerable body of opinion has maintained that the prisoner ought to be cared for as a person merely maladjusted. And ideally that may be so, especially in the case of the petty criminal and the extremely youthful one. But a reasonable man is often led to wonder why a man who has made himself repeatedly dangerous to society should be treated with such consideration. Does painless penalism pay as large returns as the idealists would like us to believe? Anyone reading in the newspapers of football games in which notorious gangsters and murderers play of sunny autumn...
...recognize the value of intercollegiate athletic contests. We believe, however, that these contests ought not to be conducted as public spectacles for profit. We should look forward with pleasure to such a reorganization of athletics as would confine attendance to members of the universities and their alumni...
...type of work worthy of the finest minds, and is emphatically not beneath the dignity of full professors, or brilliant research men. The future success of tutorial work depends to a large extent upon these men consenting to take over a few tutees. In this connection, the University ought to pursue a definite policy of lending prestige to the position of tutor. In some degree, this will naturally result from a system of limiting the number of tutors, but at the same time, the impression must be created that the position of tutor is not a mere stepping stone...
...however, ought to have a chance to work with a tutor. The decision as to whether a particular student should continue could be made to depend both upon reports by the tutor, and upon the honest confession of the student himself. By the beginning of the Junior year, the select group of tutees ought to be chosen. These men would at once be allowed a reduction of one course per year, and their work would be recognized by the dean's office as at least the equivalent to that required by one course. The only record, however, which the dean...
...tangible reward were unnecessary, and that there was such a thing as study for the sake of knowledge alone. Any retreat to systems of grades and examinations is a tacit admission of defeat in this high purpose. Before that admission is made, a more restricted system of tutorial work ought to be tried...