Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...SOME men prefer style, some comfort, in a shoe. The Crawford combines both. At Crawford Shoe Stores, 225 Washington street, and 36 Park square...
...made in each of the two games. Several methods of deciding the match have been proposed but it has finally been decided to let the games lie over until next year and to finish them next fall. The match is very close and for this reason the Harvard players prefer to postpone it rather than to have it decided by disinterested persons as the Yale players proposed...
Besides these more important additions there have been several innovations and changes in the various departments. One of the most important is the establishment of a new course in English, to be known as English 31. This course is open to all who, having passed English A, prefer an elective course to Course B. This year English 22 has been open to all who had passed English A. Next year, however, English 22 will be open only to those who have attained Grade C in course A. The new course will embrace work similar to that done by the second...
...persons who might be induced to contribute. Especially is to be remembered that, excepting Memorial Hall, all of the buildings erected at Harvard in our time have been given or bequeathed by individuals singly; men with means, who wish to build a monument either to themselves, or some other, prefer, and naturally prefer, to give all, rather than to have their partial contributions merged unidentified in a general subscription. It is in no way improbable, therefore, that some benefactor may present himself, or be found, who, by endowing the University Club, will associate his name, or that of another, permanently...
...graduate would of course prefer to continue his studies in the Graduate School of his own college. In the list just published it was noticed that there were but two of the number who are Harvard graduates, and it would be quite natural for persons reading it, who were unacquainted with the ability and standard of Harvard men, to infer that it was not quite as high as at other colleges. It is a subject that many have been interested in, but I believe it has never been explained...