Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need only look around us to see how the selective draft produces a general confusion and misdirection in the lives of those eligible to be called up. As soon as he graduates from high school, the teenager is faced with the quandry of when, how, and even whether he ought to enlist. He can "get it over with" before college, but that means starting school after his friends. Besides, he will have to attend boring Army Reserve meetings every week for years...
Assuming these problems can be overcome, the selection of the proper students must be faced. If truly fine teachers are brought in, and a splendid course of instruction instituted, some students will be drawn to the College as undergraduates in order to become actors. Thus the College ought now to decide if a professional actor is like a professional lawyer or doctor and similarly better trained after a liberal arts education. Furthermore, some prospective applicants will come to Cambridge only for dramatic training, applying for admission as special students to this course alone. Previously untrained and uninterested undergraduates will...
...repair the damaged Alliance, Johnson hopes to hold bilateral talks in Washington next year with Erhard, Douglas-Home and De Gaulle. But the French are already beginning to hint that since De Gaulle was just in the U.S., Johnson ought to visit Paris-presumably as a pilgrim to the Delphic shrine...
...seemed to us that other university colleges are probably having the same problems with their teaching fellows, and that Harvard ought to pay attention to solutions that are being worked out elsewhere
Many small dailies seem disposed to accept their starvation diet as if it were an ineluctable fact of newspaper life. Says John Murphy, executive director of the Texas Daily Newspaper Association: "The shortage of editorial help is our own fault. We ought to have a better clearing house of information, and closer contacts with the schools. We don't really have any system...