Word: ought
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...enough to argue that the Gen Ed committee must pre-select the departmental courses an undergraduate can take to fulfill his Gen Ed requirements. The Committee must confront the question whether there is any inherent worth in a Gen Ed Course-and if there is it ought to persuade the Faculty. Because unless a convincing argument is made, the Faculty will probably not accept the Doty proposals or any compulsory Gen Ed program...
John Saloma, assistant professor of Economics at M.I.T. and president of the liberal-Republican Ripon Society, took issue with Mrs. Luce, asking "What price unity?" He complained that the Republicans ought not to have welcomed Sen. Strom Thurmond (R.S.C.) into their ranks...
...Dutch-descended Boers, also fears that canned TV programs from the U.S. and Britain would further "anglicize" South Africa, 37% of whose white population is English-speaking. Beyond that, the Nationalists feel that Anglo-Saxon liberalism reflected in such programs could subtly undermine apartheid-although a good packager ought to be able to find some pretty safe fare. Still, Hertzog accuses South Africa's English-dominated business community, and specifically Diamond Tycoon Harry F. Oppenheimer, of plotting to bring in television, which could mean "the destruction of white South Africa...
Such views are not likely to get Davenport many invitations to Washington these days, but he avoids partisanship by judging economic events against the goal of "human liberty and the limitation of government power." He cautions against "confusing what is with what ought to be." No doubt many economists will feel that Davenport has ended up by equating what was with what ought...
Trusty Trustees. Conant's cure for such shortsightedness is the creation of an "Interstate Commission for Planning a Nationwide Educational Policy." The commission, as Conant envisions it, ought to be a formal compact approved by Congress and composed of representatives chosen by the states-not educators but rather distinguished citizens such as those that serve as trustees of topnotch universities...