Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Franklin Ford, dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said earlier this week that the Faculty will debate next year whether students rank-in-class ought to be made available to local draft boards...
...class ranking confronts the administration with a major question of educational policy, a question of substantial importance to students. Surely the administration should give the matter more thought than it has, and it is hardly unreasonable to suggest that the students themselves, who stand to suffer the most, ought to be consulted in some orderly manner. No one is asking the administration to consider the proposed referendum as anything more than that, a mechanism of consultation. The outcome of the vote would be in no way binding, but would merely provide the administration one more factor to weigh in making...
...helping to build schools. "Now I do not mean to say that every American over there is a welfare worker," said the Defense Secretary. "But neither is every American over there a patronizer of a prostitute, and I do not think the New York Times or any other periodical ought to leave that impression...
...Cole. Nobody in Detroit would be surprised if G.M. eventually should drop the Corvair altogether. General Motors next September will bring out a stubby-tailed, moderately priced (about $2,500) sports car, tentatively named Panther, to compete with Mustang. Latest joke at Ford: "Instead of Panther, maybe G.M. ought to call it Copycat...
Since Nabokov fans seem irresistibly drawn toward his books in search of deep commentary, it would seem that the author's protestations for once ought to be respected. Accordingly, Despair rates as follows...