Word: ought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recommend itself to Anglophobes. But she is not above poking a little feminine fun at the solemn inanities of academic rigmarole, and her satire-especially of conversation at the dons' high table-is kindly but rich. The Author ought to know her Oxford. She was born there (1893), where her father was headmaster of the Cathedral Choir School. She was one of the most brilliant scholars of her year at Somerville College and one of the first to be awarded an Oxford degree (she took a First in Medieval Literature). In London she got a job writing copy...
This plan, looking forward to the mutual exchange of a thousand selected leaders of the younger generation, ought to be closely watched. It may, in the next year, prove to be a great chance for many Harvard undergraduates...
...Tower and there found--who comes to bring me a poem. But it be so void of humor I could not accept it and so, I hear, he sends it to Lampy. Whereupon he tells me this little stint be oftentimes very dull and I ought to write about such things as the Wellesley Senior who won ten dollars from an Eliot House Sophomore by swallowing the House Mother's goldfish! Both are still doing nicely in the Wellesley Infirmary. But I already too much of this and so to the office to note the schedule...
...host of the people do not feel shame; yea and more also if ought they do but take timbrels in their hands and line the place wherein the vow is to be done. Wherefore do they judge o'er all the land the men, and which the larger; to which the longer arm, and which the mightier in his youth. Forgive them for they know not what they...
...self-revelation in the last page of the book of which your review-did not take advantage that is needed to complete your picture of its author. In the epilog Mario is made to tell Santayana that, "The trouble with you philosophers is that you misunderstand your vocation. You ought to be poets, but you insist on laying down the law for the universe." And that, Santayana remarks earlier in the volume, is "simply the tragedy of the spirit when it's not content to understand but wishes to govern."... B. H. KIZER Graves, Kizer & Graves, Lawyers Spokane, Wash...