Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contests with Yale still occupy the dominant position on Harvard athletic schedules, they are no longer the sole aim of Varsity programs. It has been recognized that the main function of all the games, aside from the financial one, is to provide instruction and competition for accomplished athletes. There ought, accordingly, to be a revision of the present unjust arrangement which permits a man to go without reward even though he has participated in all the games but that with Yale. Such a step is particularly necessary in those sports which do not permit of extensive last minute substitution; also...
Some critics approved the basic idea of the rule, but suggested it ought not to apply if the pitcher begins by throwing a strike to the batter. Others tartly observed that the pitcher could still get around the new rule by hitting the batter with the ball, walking him to first base...
Though these exhortations for a sentimental revival may smack of preparatory school editorial propaganda, it is a deplorably true and serious commentary on our present mode of college life. Purchase of a Yale song Book ought to prove a worthy investment...
...have chosen scholarship as an easy way to support themselves, who have no impetus to their work except a professional and economic one, who will reach their intellectual peak when they are given their degree. Naturally, graduate study is professional, but in the arts and sciences, it ought to spring from a full-blooded and passionate interest in one or more fields, and a desire to further present accomplishments in them. Anyone who lacks these qualities should be scrupulously debarred. To this end, a more flexible method of admissions will have to be devised, requiring possibly a cogent statement...
...degree of care in admissions or in classification of the students can be useful, however, without cleansing the School of its intellectual dryrot. "Towards this end, the course system ought to be wholly abolished for the first group of students and modified for the others, letting the vanity of some of the professors go untickled, but doing the students a great service. For a rigid insistence on a program of courses merely bogs down the man of talent and stays him from vital accomplishment. Certain topics can best be treated in large lectures; attendance at those should be no more...