Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...advantages and superiorities of their Alma Mater. This boasting is harmless enough, but it would be well for the men who indulge in it to devote themselves to the present; for, should they look into the past records of the College, they will find many things which they would prefer to have blotted out. They would find, for instance, among the recipients of the highest degrees which the College confers, after such names as Archbishop Whately and J. S. Mill, the name of U. S. Grant, - a record which few men certainly would not desire to have expunged from...
...undertake. When treating of the oratorical contest under the title of "A Literary Circus," it is certainly not witty, as the following extract will show: "The auburn-whiskered Higginson must have made an irreproachable ring-master. As for lugubrious clowns, representatives of the Darwinian theory and animals which sometimes prefer to "locomote" backward, who can doubt that they put in a large, if not an appreciated representation...
...absence of such a course in our curriculum is all the more blameworthy and unnecessary in view of the required studies which are still retained. Will any unbiassed mind prefer Trigonometry to Political Economy, either as regards the practical utility of the study or its value in training the mind? Can it be more valuable to a man to be able to solve an oblique triangle than to understand the questions of financial policy which are agitating the whole country? Our colleges and schools are responsible for the prevailing ignorance of Political Economy. Harvard takes the lead by ceasing...
After all, my desire to see Harvard defeat Yale is secondary to my wish to see her exhibit scientific rowing for its own sake; and, if the annual struggle continues, I should prefer to see the flags awarded to the best oarsmanship, if it were practicable to come to a decision on such a basis. As it is, I am disposed to encourage races only so far as they encourage again a general use of the oar among the students as a means of improving the health...
There was no coalition between the Pi Eta and the non-society. Nobody will deny that there was an understanding ("implied coalition," if you prefer) between individuals as to whom they would support; and this was only and solely for the purpose of electing those men who, taking into account their ability and surroundings, it was thought could best fill the offices...