Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...print everything which by even the remotest possibility may appear in the same day's issue of the rival paper, tends to cause the premature publication of matters which really need further investigation or confirmation. As a result inaccuracies sometimes occur, even though, as a rule, a paper may prefer the accuracy of an article to the chance of its being a "scoop...
These interviews have been noticeable for the manly, unassuming attitude of the men, their frankness, and their ready and intelligent response to the recommendations made. As each man's individual problem is considered, his choice of work is not limited to what he happens to prefer among the few things he may have heard of, but the whole range of charities is laid under tribute to furnish him the task that will be most satisfactory to him as well as most valuable of itself, and that will tend best to prepare him for those forms of public spririted service...
...have the benefit of the scholarship for one or both of the last two years of his college course, as his attainments and character shall warrant. If for any reason this scholarship should become vacant during the period for which it is awarded, we would prefer that it should go to some other person in the same class...
...cards which will be distributed to members of the University will contain blanks for the name, class, Cambridge address, home address and the following questions: "Of what religious body or denomination are you a member?" "If not a member of any, which do you prefer?" "If suitable opportunity is presented, are you willing to engage in philanthropic work...
...will be seen that students who prefer a course like that usually prescribed by American colleges may secure it by a corresponding choice of studies; while others, who have decided tastes, or think it wiser to concentrate their study on a few subjects, obtain every facility for doing...