Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...remainder of the petition states in substance that those who support it wish to have no change in the nature of the Annex until it may be incorporated as a department of Harvard University, and that they much prefer to receive the certificate now given until such a time shall come, no matter how far distant...
Then the Italians were lovers of beauty. Here they stand in strong contrast to other races of artists, the French for example, who have been said to be "beauty blind,"- that is, they prefer making a picture great by their method of expression, to painting only a reproduction of a scene beautiful in itself...
...Haven on June 27th, we hereby invite you in case these games result in a tie, to play a third game on any day after June 27th, (our Commencement Day). and before July 5th. We are willing to play the game on neutral ground or, if you prefer, to toss for the right to name the place, the side losing the toss to have the right to name the place of the next tie game in a subsequent year...
...governs them even with moderateness, to say nothing of an increasing influence. Nor can we reconcile the writer's protest against this "pest" with his statement in the next editorial that the spirit shown at the Junior Dinner "made one wonder how started the term 'Harvard indifference.' " We would prefer to judge the Advocate by its Second rather than its first editorial and to believe that at heart it agrees with us in saying that "Harvard Indifference" is in its last stage of existence. Our only point in bringing up the matter at all is to present what we think...
...might, if I were inclined, found this sentiment of affection for Harvard upon the honor she has done to me in adopting me as one of her own sons; but I prefer to say that I make the gift with still greater pleasure as the president of a sister university, so far as this element enters into the motive of it, in glad recognition of what we all owe to Harvard...