Word: ought
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...first sight there is nothing particularly Christian about a physics formula. But the scientific world civilization is more than abstract thought. It consists of a body of knowledge, its systematization, the multiplication of tools and implements for using the knowledge, and an implicit belief that human life can and ought to be changed. This last aspect requires that human history be seen as a linear, irrversible movement, and is therefore opposed to the deeply-rooted belief of eastern religions in a cyclical theory of change in human experience. Further, can science, which has grown up in the Christian notion...
...people who care strongly for the Clubs, it is offered not in hopes that they will stop caring, but as an attempt to describe some of the problems and practical difficulties confronting their Clubs today. And to those who do not care, it is offered not because they ought to care, but because Harvard's Final Clubs represent a fascinating and probably unique attempt to preserve, in an American college, the standards of "gracious living" and a slowly withering "aristocracy...
Functioning both as stage director and conductor, Goldovsky has chosen effective blocking and byplay, and keeps the performance moving along at a good pace. His beat is clear and his cueing exemplary (though he ought to curtail his Toscaninian grunting and humming). Nevertheless, the orchestral playing is far from polished. The company can doubtless not afford a sufficient number of orchestral rehearsals; the players are quickly recruited more or less at random from the Union local and thus cannot possibly achieve a nuanced and precise ensemble. I fear nothing can be done about this shortcoming...
Unless the Houses are to be jails, future seniors should not be regulated by Administrative fiat. Masters and their Senior Tutors are well enough acquainted with the situation in their respective institutions to decide who ought to live out and in what numbers. Exceptions in cases of marriage, illness and financial distress are already provided for--the invitation should also be extended to those who simply cannot stand House life...
...History, are tutors in Kirkland House, where they meet both Harvard and Radcliffe tutees. However, since Radcliffe students are not associated with a Harvard House, they are often assigned tutors also not House affiliates. Whether this situation works to the disadvantage of Radcliffe students is a problem the committee ought to consider, Mrs. Gray said...