Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work of the course consists in learning the meanings, actual and supposed, of every word in six of Shakespeare's plays. By the time one is through with the course, he ought to know something about Elizabethan English. Some students actually do. Otherwise there is a good deal of memory work to be done, and without which, no matter how well a man does on the other material in the examination, he can get no higher than C. The emphasis is on small details, and if one doesn't like these minutiae, as Professor Kittredge suggests at the beginning...
...Lawn '34, O. M. Lurie '35, M. J. Litwack '34, A. E. Phillips '34, S. M. Peyser '34, D. M. Sullivan '33, G. F. Oest '33. They will deliver a short speech on either the affirmative or negative of the subject: "Reselved, That the international traffie in munitions ought to be outlawed." The judges of the trials will be E. M. Rowe '27, coach of the team, W. S. Howell, instructor of Public Speaking, J. M. Swigert '30 F. C. Packard, assistant professor of Public Speaking, and Moses ware '02. The team to face Yale will be announced before Thursday...
...hate to eat, myself, but I think you boys over in Cambridge ought to be allowed to drink beer in the Dining Halls. Why, the Cambridge crow in England trains on it, and they win lots of races. How do I know? Oh, I've heard all about it. Personally I don't like it, or that is, I don't think I would. You see, I really don't imbibe in that way. I want to be the same as the First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt, and let other people have it, but not touch it myself...
...Jones I think something has happened at home. I think we ought to have left someone to take care of our children. What will I do if someone has kidnapped them out from under my nose. How can you sit there and let them be stolen from me. O my babies. How could anyone be so crule as to steel...
...found for making these available primarily to those possessed of potential strength of character, of latent, if not active, attributes which make for personality, and of group consciousness which can dominate instinct for individual acquisitiveness at the expense, of the public weal. Likewise, credentials from our houses of learning ought to be withheld from those without evidence of interest in developing these qualities...