Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...boats of the men who have graduated. Again, men in the Freshman class are more sought for to make up a class crew by a captain of their own class than they would be by the club captains, who know what some men are worth in a race, and prefer to have tried men in the boat, and not to risk a race by putting in a new man. The captains of the clubs have shown their wisdom thus far in selecting for their crews several strong Freshmen, but the best of those chosen will prefer their class crew...
...rapidly degenerating into a mere sporting event. A general scrub-race, thrown open to crews from any of the twelve hundred and eighty-four so-called colleges of this unhappy Union, will soon become more like the celebrated caucus-race than a decisive trial of strength and skill. We prefer a duello to a brawl...
...City of Peking," as I recently heard, has been condemned as unfit for sea in a little more than a year from the time of her launching, and is being rebuilt. If such is the condition of American companies, who can wonder that sensible men and women prefer to trust their lives with the English lines, who, at least, "assume a virtue if they have...
...acting, then our incipient Booths and Salvini's are in the ascendant, and the Burkes and Websters go to the wall. Men, therefore, in selecting their pieces, often do not choose those for which they are best fitted by nature, but take those which they think the committee will prefer. If a particular style of speaking is favored by the College authorities, it should be made known, both to the competitors and judges. If excellence alone is desired, no matter what the nature of the piece spoken, both judges and students should know. As things are now, there is doubt...
...while many of the boats of the others are on the rests, so that men are obliged to go away without a row, though there are several boats in the house. Some persons are therefore in favor of having only one large club for the whole College, for they prefer an arrangement which will give each man the best opportunities for rowing to one which will train oarsmen at the expense of other members. These men are sometimes disposed to prefer their own convenience to the interests of the University crew, but there is also a feeling, though not very...