Word: shouldn
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...commenting on the prospects of the team for the 1920 season, Coach Burgess stated, "There is no reason why we shouldn't have an excellent team next year. Although some of our best men, as Tilton, Glaser and Kellett, will have graduated, still the majority of the players will remain to furnish an experienced nucleus upon which to build our 1920 team...
...deny that many are in need of aid, but if financial helps is to be given, why shouldn't it be given exclusively to the widows and other dependents of those who fell. For the men in hard circumstances no effort should be spared in securing suitable positions; the country needs every man at some productive post so that he may become a helpful member of the community. Work will do this; gifts will not. Let us temper generosity with good sense...
...thing, it took the war to bring the sailor into his own. "I am surprised to find," said a kindly gentleman down in the Square to us the other day, "that your men are gentlemen." He shouldn't have been surprised; but he was just another victim of popular report. Like countless others, he thought sailors were instinctively rowdies, that the uniform was the signal for a rough-house, and that he had better nail everything down that was laying around loose...
...colleges now, and I know that at Harvard and Yale that is the trend of the day. You can hear it on all sides and you can see that the students want it by reading their college papers. Everybody should be out playing, building up his body. We shouldn't spend our time developing a man to jump six feet when we have a thousand men who can't jump four feet. One thousand men who can jump four feet are worth a dozen men who can jump six feet today. What good...
...shouldn't membership in a big club constitute a lawful reward and acknowledgment of achievement, it may be asked. If to belong to any club on Prospect was in itself an indication that a member had done something to merit honor and distinction, that question might be a fit one for argument. But merit is not the criterion of election. It is rather type. In every one of the big clubs, it is the effort of those in charge of the election to secure men of the same stamp as themselves and their club-mates. This makes a rigid system...