Word: ought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anything but austere. The brothers' friendly relations are not disturbed by politics, and even though Dr. Georges Salan, a Gaullist, was recently bombed by the Nimes branch of the S.A.O., he does not hold it against Raoul. "Until last April," he says, "He was as every French officer ought to be, that is, a straight military man without any political convictions...
...satisfied unless they have told you about every sort of shot that Welles used for the first time. I am only slightly more annoyed when opera fans talk about Mozart's daring use of the quartet in Idomeneo; he may have shocked Vienna in 1780, but now we ought to be far more interested in the quality of the quartet as music, not music history...
...ruled that such "service courses" ought to be extracurricular, Pusey commented. He added that ideally there would be no elementary languages in the College curriculum; students would learn their languages in secondary school. This, he admitted, is "a distant dream...
...record I probably ought to go further and say that at no time, either before 1960 or since, have those responsible for Harvard College admission policy accepted what my report called the "top-one-per-cent" policy. By "those responsible" I mean not only the Admission Committee and staff, but also the President, the Dean of the Faculty and the governing boards, especially the Corporation. These men have consistently supported an admission policy which put weight on a variety of non-academic factors in the selection of students and which sought for the College a student body with a diversity...
Bender also said that admissions officers ought to look for qualities beyond "test-scoring intelligence" but that a youth with a high IQ would not necessarily lack those extra qualities...