Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...after a double postponement, came off on the morning of Saturday, July 18. The result is satisfactory to none but the gallant sons of Columbia, and, even in their case, we are confident that the gentlemanly spirit of rivalry which is characteristic of them would have prompted them to prefer a fair trial of superiority with their two most formidable rivals to the walk-away race they had of it after the Yale-Harvard foul...
...cause, absent from such an examination, the subject of that examination will stand against him as a condition, to be removed in the usual way by performing the corresponding work in some subsequent year. A student, however, whose absence from examination is excused, may, if he prefer, obtain a special examination; but the maximum mark at any such special examination will be only sixty per cent of the maximum mark of the examination for which it is substituted...
PRACTICAL FRIEND. I should think you would prefer having them plank the walks...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson has objected that prayer is the highest act of which the human mind is capable, and that we ought not to be deprived, or allowed to deprive ourselves, of prayer in the morning, we would like to submit that it is not we who pray, - we prefer to do that in our rooms, - but a single member of the Faculty, while the most of his hearers are far from being in a devotional frame of mind. Understanding that the gentleman in the Board of Overseers who decided the matter of prayers by his vote was also chiefly...
...make Commons compulsory. "Several important gains would result from the changes suggested. In the first place, many students would board at the Hall who were not compelled to do so by poverty. The poorer students would of course resort thither, but many who were not absolutely poor would prefer to board there. Among students it is not well to have poverty the ground of association. Secondly, for hasty meals in a hot, crowded, vulgar room, under circumstances which make polite observances difficult and social enjoyment impossible, would be substituted a decent and comfortable service which would promote good manners...