Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that so far they have proved satisfactory. Taking up the defense of the players themselves, and how they would be affected by the reduction of games, he declared that the students have always felt the games to be the most pleasure of the season, and accordingly ought themselves to decide how many should be played
...futile to protest against the conflict in the points of view of lectures in different fields. As a matter of fact disagreement on fundamentals ought to be welcomed as the most effective stimulus to an honest attempt to solve real problems. Difference of opinion on university platforms has this significance for every undergraduate. It means that he must face the task of formulating for himself from various sources some unified philosophy of his own. It is up to him to decide how much the traditional humanistic ways of thought and how much the newer techniques of science will supply grist...
...really talking about, of course, was the absurdity of regarding any man as educated who does not understand both that religion, like science and art, is a racially valid technic for the discovery of truth, and also something of what that technic involves. Even an undergraduate journalist ought, it seems to me, to have been able to see that the two contentions are quite distinct...
...also interested in your statement (in the same leader) that "the aim of education becomes more professional and less cultural" and that "fighting the spirit of the times is a vain and thankless task" which those in control of Harvard College ought not to undertake. This is very interesting. One has heard before, for sometime, that Harvard has sold out to the spirit of the times and gone in for "professional objectives" rather than "cultural ones." Dr. Flexner said something like that, and Dr. A. J. Nock, in their late internationally read books. I have heard it intimated in Oxford...
...must provide at least three things: it must be a great spectacle which will attract crowds of paying sight-seers, it must invoke at least the semblance of college rivalry, and it must be so ordered that graduates and undergraduates can easily bet their money on the result. It ought, of course, to be simple enough for the spectators--men, women, and children --to understand. But experience has shown that this is not indispensable if the ballyhoo is sufficiently vigorous. Many a spectator at a football game does not know what it is all about. He sees only the struggling...