Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...unsociable beings advocate rooming alone on the ground that it is easier to find company when you want it, than to escape it when it is thrust upon you. This may do very well for those who wish companions in their convivial moments only, but, for my part, I prefer to see my friends tested by the thousand petty annoyances that inevitably occur, and to find them still standing firm under the fire of my temper when I am in an ill-humor. Besides, the argument about seeking your friends when you want them works both ways. If your chum...
...base-ball and foot-ball is not just, for the number of students is large enough for all the sports, and success in one sport ought not to prevent success in another. I lay it to the deplorable spirit of laziness which prevails here to an alarming extent. Men prefer to lounge about with cigarettes in their months, chattering idle nonsense, rather than to devote their spare time to invigorating exercise. As to our training it is merely farcical; there were men on the University Crew last year who scarcely made any professional training, and who indulged in dissipation with...
...talking, one evening, with a member of the present Senior class about the relative merits of Spencer and Mill. I said, "On the whole, I prefer Mill. The stream of Spencer's mind, though being so broad, is of necessity shallow; while on the points that Mill has touched you feel that completeness characteristic of a master mind." "No," he said, " I prefer Spencer. His philosophy is cosmic. You feel a completeness of a higher kind here than in Mill." "By the way," said I, "what books of Spencer have you read?" "Well," he said, "I can't exactly...
...animals fed," and certainly it would be slightly more edifying to the students to dine in private. We are not fed at the public expense; why, then, should our dining-hall be a public one? We enjoy at all times a guest's company at dinner, but we prefer to have him break bread with us, to his standing over us watching our every movement...
...only some sixty or seventy men, and the funds were only a thousand dollars or so, the duties of the secretary naturally embraced those of treasurer, but now the classes have grown to such an extent that the work of the secretary seems too onerous. Yet we would prefer to advise '77 to institute two offices, for it might imply shirking on the part of the present Class Secretary to advocate a change this year...