Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...communication in the Boston Post of last Tuesday, indicating the weakness of the plan and proposing in its place that the city found a large number of scholarships whose holders should be selected from the high schools for study, during three or four years, in any institution they might prefer, at home or abroad. In this way the money would be spent more economically, the efficiency of institutions of learning already established would be greatly increased, and a better education would be insured to the student than he could get, certainly for many years, in a university established...
...hard for us to see, we repeat, why Yaie should refuse to accept proposals eminently just, and should prefer to follow a contradictory course. That, however, is her business-not ours...
...Lathrop to leave Harvard. What Mr. Lathrop's feelings about leaving are, it is perhaps impossible to know; and in any case they do not materially affect the discussion of the question. It is but natural, however, to suppose that, other things being fairly equal, he would prefer to remain at Harvard; and it is equally natural to suppose that he, like any other instructor in the University, can hardly refuse to better his condition. In other words we should suppose that, under the present arrangements Mr. Lathrop could hardly stay at Harvard...
...been proved that most laborers would prefer an eight hour day. If they did they would have no right to prevent the minority from working as much as they choose...
...that they have been greatly hindered in their work by the interference of the "scrub" teams. These latter are generally supposed to be non-representative college organizations; and they may, therefore, leave town without express permission. It is natural enough that men on the class nines should some times prefer to play these out-of-town games rather than to practice with their class nines. The result, however, is disastous to the class nines, whose administration is, of necessity, hardly strict enough summarily to dispense with the services of such...