Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force at other institutions makes the provision afforded by Harvard seem indefensible. The construction of the physical plant must await the generosity of an individual or an appropriation by the Corporation; the rehabilitation and expansion of the medical staff and service, though hampered by the present unmodern facilities, ought not to be delayed longer...
...world wants of them and it is what every university must want. To use a man who has it in him to enlarge the sphere of human understanding for work that someone else could do as well is the most expensive kind of waste. Every teacher in a college ought to have, so far as possible, the sort of tools he needs, including laboratories, and not too great a teaching lead. On the latter point there will be, it is true some difficulty in making the adjustment. One man, primarily a teacher, should probably devote all his time to teaching...
...History and Literature Department come closest to ideal education. But I am in favor of letting each particular field of study become sufficient unto itself. We are coming to see more clearly every day that all branches of knowledge and speculation are indissolubly linked with each other, and it ought to be the student's privilege to decide which ones he wants to begin by linking for his own peculiar needs...
...steel companies. Chairman of the meeting was Bethlehem's Charles Michael Schwab. He opened the proceedings with a magnificent piece of the optimism for which he is famed. Then Mr. Farrell got up and began "... I was thinking as I was sitting in the chair here whether I ought to talk about the desulphurization of oxygen or have something to say about the present price of billets. The latter appealed...
...Austrian Foreign Minister let himself be led into an exchange of remarks in English with Mr. Henderson, who said in a general way that Austria and Germany ought to take no further step about Zollverein while this issue was before the Court. Dr. Schober agreed in a general way in English. Quick as a flash Uncle Arthur asked him to repeat and confirm his "pledge." Caught, flushing darkly, Dr. Schober did as the Scotsman asked. In Berlin irate editors soon echoed former German Finance Minister Peter Reinhold who said: "Dr. Schober surrendered completely to Mr. Henderson chiefly because he failed...