Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Montesquieu, "has been for me a sovereign remedy against the disgusts of life, and I have never had a vexation that an hour's reading has not dissipated." But a man could not say that, who should choose Paul de Kock for his bosom friend rather than Milton, or prefer Miss Braddon's society to that of Vittoria Colonne...
...introduction of any system which seems largely similar. They believe that the opportunity for companionship and leisurely intercourse with intimate friends is one of the greatest services Memorial renders. The opportunity is so highly prized that many students, even when dissatisfied with the food furnished, still prefer to remain in the hall in order not to be deprived of it. When students ask that this opportunity be preserved, they ask, not that a sentimentality shall be indulged, but that a powerful and beneficial influence in their lives shall not be checked...
...taken notice of by Yale until direct word is received from Oxford. This delegation of authority to a third party was made at a banquet in celebration of the Oxford victory. There is an enthusiastic atmosphere enveloping such occasions which is rather unfavorable to official utteranes and I should prefer to see a communication from the Oxford rowing men rather than a delegate clothed with power to run things...
Besides these more important aspects of the play there is another not uninteresting to Latin students. The whole is given with the comparatively lately adopted 'Roman pronunciation.' Many persons are wont to ridicule this method, simply because their ears are unaccustomed to it. They prefer the mumpsimus of the ignorant priest to the sumpsimus of the Latin ritual. The sooner such persons, or any persons for that matter, become accustomed to the right way, the sooner they will find that there is no more difficulty and no less enjoyment in this than in the old barbarous jargon. For the English...
...London. Already, the class has responded with two thousand dollars, and we have no doubt that the other thousand will be forthcoming in time. We want, however, to point out the situation to Ninety-seven men and to ask them if they would not in the end prefer to have given the whole sum promptly and without seeming to begrudge it. The crew is not a bad one; careless at times, as most freshman crews are, and yet, on the whole, taking to its work in good shape. Since it deserves support, and is the only athletic organization...