Word: ought
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Following admission to the Mastership came the "Act," origin of our Commencement Parts. The idea was that the complete Master of Arts ought to show his stuff, as it were, before the university let him go. Commencement parts opened in the thirteenth century, as now, with a Latin speech, which was supposed to show as much with as the speaker was capable of. In the later middle ages and Renaissance the object of the salutatory orator was to make the presiding dignitaries as angry as possible with personal remarks and obscene qulps...
...only within (thirty years that the last commencement fee were abolished at Harvard. These fee went to pay the expenses of the commencement dinner for graduates who altended. It was felt to be a great privilege to be admitted to the society of educate men; hence students ought to pay hand somely...
...such knowledge. . . . Mr. President, this question is greater than political parties. It is greater than the Democratic Party. It is greater than even the Republican Party. This is a great world problem and I do not wish to treat it from a 'peanut' attitude. . . . There ought to be an American attitude...
Ubico has heard the murmur. For years he planned "to leave the Presidency only for the cemetery." After El Salvador's revolt, he said: "A ruler should know in the seat of his pants when he ought to get out of his chair...
...minor engagement in an inconsequential war-and a war, moreover, against our present allies, the British. From the looks of things, we are going to be fighting on the British side in future wars-far oftener, at any rate, than on the anti-British side. Surely we ought to be able to round up a song which better voices the 20th-century mood of the American people...