Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty meets today to consider once more the curiously complicated question of Cum Laude in General Studies. When it last discussed what part individual departments ought to play in the decision to grant or withhold the special degree from seniors, it agreed that a certain collection of course grades would alone determine a student's eligibility. Once he had abandoned his commitment to the particular work of his department by choosing to forego the thesis and tutorial for credit, the department simply had nothing more...
...perceptible if somewhat spookily mysterious smell of excitement hovered about Lowell House last March, as the SSMTRHG (UNN) clambered into a Q-Entry and onto the newsstands this fall, under the name of the Harvard Review, and it is nearly every bit as good a it ought...
...goes crazy because the lawn has a buried sprinkler grid. Pa fires a load into the sod just as the gardener turns on the system. "I ain't never missed yet," crows Pa. Granny peers into the deep freeze and complains that all the vittles is froze. "People ought to know better'n to store food up against a north wall," says Pa, who has all the good lines...
...machine take into account a student's order of preference for particular Houses. Furthermore, a computer could be programmed to put slightly different groups of students in each of the eight Houses, and to preserve the present shades of difference between them. Agreement on what these differences are or ought to be, on the criteria for "weighted distribution," Oettinger suspects would be difficult to secure...
Certainly a football concert ought not to strive for the heights and depths, but it needn't be spread thin with kitsch, either. Perhaps both choruses should help out at the pep rally and give up for one evening their burden of reviving serious choral music. They're doing only a halfway...