Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from the fact that the present calendar provides a delightful variety in life, there are amazing facts about the Fixed Calendar League's program which put it completely out of competition. It might be added that these same facts ought to put the Fixed Calendar Leaguers in jail. They have proposed a year of thirteen twenty-eight day months each beginning on a Sunday...
...fund is perhaps a Utopian dream. The proposal to employ such money as the University may acquire for an increase in scholarships and a lowering of charges, however, will have the solid support of undergraduates. More important to the University than buildings are the men who fill them. Harvard ought to do everything it can to make the entrance of capable men as little contingent on wealth as possible...
...believe that a university ought to be, and is, an exciting place. I do not think that Princeton is now a very exciting place except to the embryo junior executives. --Alumni Bulletin...
...German governesses, a wave of whom penetrated Kensington in King Edward's reign and openly said that Germany ought to be top nation...
...bless the next one, we are tempted to add. But during the past few years some of our prominent religious leaders have professed repentance, and have declared that they will be on the side of peace next time even when the drums beat. If their professions mean anything, they ought to fight every attempt to associate religion and war, even in retrospect. Let us build memorials, if we must, to our war dead, and let them express our grief at our folly and wickedness in sending these young men to death; but let us not help prepare another...