Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sharpe and you that a college education should be limited to those who are intellectually able to take advantage of it, but I object most emphatically to the assumption, which you make, that the rich have a monopoly on intelligence; nothing could be more false. It has been, and ought to remain, the glory of American education that the poor boy of intelligence has been able to gain an education and thereby, not only better his own condition, but also often contribute to our civilization and culture. It is not, in my opinion, at all desirable that Harvard should "come...
...student body should be carefully taken up. To cite pertinent examples: The recent abolition of the position of Adviser in Religion should certainly have been considered; assistance and advice should have been given publicly in deciding on the policy of distributing Freshmen in the Houses; and finally, the Council ought definitely to take a stand on what it considers to be the most satisfactory method of balancing the H.A.A. budget for the coming year. By meeting these problems and many others the Council might approach a fulfillment of the ends for which it was created, but in order...
...where those obligations are issued and their own internal obligations. On their internal obligations they have a right to tax the people until the issue is out of existence, almost." Heartless Contracts. Here & there in the U. S.. stern voices were raised to the effect that the Government ought to maintain international good faith by paying foreign holders of its bonds the equivalent of gold in paper dollars. But when May payments on billions & billions of dollars worth of public and private debt fell due at home last week, there was no real complaint against the nationwide default...
...statesman less sure of his popularity. Said he: "Now that I have seen Japan from a distance my heart is filled with apprehension for the future. ... I doubt if the nation is conscious of its crisis. No people in the world are so politically conventional as the Japanese. We ought to take a lesson from America, where the President, acting irrespective of political parties, has the support of 90% of the American people in his vigorous actions for the relief of the nation. That sight should give us hope, as our crisis is less severe than America...
...Plow to Read is intended for a text-book and ought to be in use. It wd. debunk 80% of the idiocy in teaching literature in high-schools and colleges and 81 and one-fourth percent of literary journalists. Literary teaching and criticism ought to get the best stuff to the reader with the least interposition of second-hand yawp. crit/ic