Word: oughtness
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...lost even for the sake of hurting the yell of the Ithacan College. As long as challenges such as those sent to England and then to Yale and Harvard emanate from Cornell, she must expect to have her invitations refused. It has been suggested that we ought not to be seriously affronted, because the challenge was not meant to imply any disrespect, and Cornell knew no better. To such an explanation as this we can only say that the sooner she learns more of what is due to etiquette the better it will be for every one. As for rowing...
Successful crews are accustomed, as the only means of securing a fast boat, to try several from the best builders, and then select the fastest; for builders universally admit that the making of a very fast boat is more a matter of luck than of science and rule. We ought to have three boats to select from, - one from England, one from Blakey, and one paper. Of these, the College will certainly get one, probably that from Blakey; for the paper boat, we can hardly hope; but the boat from England, where the building of shells has been most perfected...
...hurry back to a calmer and more commonplace style you will soon be laughing at me, and this is almost the only letter that I have written to you which I do not wish to be laughed at. I really think that you ought to convince yourself at the very beginning of your college life that an existence of elegant and useless ease is not the existence to which you were born. We live in a country where men are growing more and more equal every day of their lives. We are not born to great fortunes and to names...
...mean that you ought to forget that you are a gentleman. Although in the struggle of life you will have to meet again and again men who are not and who never can be what you are, you need not make yourself like them. If you remember one of my old rules, you will always be right. Never do a thing which you will be ashamed, if need be, to confess. If you are true to yourself, you will never know what shame means. Make up your mind to be something, whatever that something...
...does not himself consider, nor do others generally consider, that he has done anything very much out of the way if his subscription is never paid. This, we submit, is not as it should be. A promise to pay is a promise that no man ought to break and still keep the respect either of himself or others. Once out of college, every one, no matter how dull of comprehension, will become convinced that he must pay what he agrees to pay or suffer the consequences. We have been informed, too, that the legs of the assistant treasurer...