Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...understood that the President and Fellows prefer this memorial of Phillips Brooks to any other at Cambridge, and earnestly desire that it may be immediately undertaken. They believe that such a building would greatly further at the University the broad religious work in which he was interested, and in a way which he would have heartily approved. They have already indicated a site for the building, namely, the corner of Quincy street and Broadway, a site conveniently central as regards the northern and southern portions of the University precincts and also close to Appleton Chapel on the West...
...these reasons we prefer to row the race this year under the agreement as it now stands...
...rates, in which the weaker roads are forced to submit. The victorious road, now commanding the entire traffic, immediately raises its rates and thus taxes the public for the expenses of the war. These sudden rises and falls are very confusing to shippers, who would almost all prefer high but steady rates...
...most striking thing, said Professor Greenough, in Roman life is the scarcity of houses furniture. The Romans seemed to prefer fine decorations to comfortable rooms. The amount and variety of decorations attract ones attention, especially those on the walls. Usually two rows of columns supported the ceiling, the rows being on either side of the room, and the wall between these rooms was always decorated. Plates or slabs of marble were usually used as an ancient form of decoration. A representation of windows was often resorted to as a mode beautifying a room, while on these windows, which were themselves...
Princeton made a proposal to play on any Saturday in November that Harvard might prefer. This was fair as regarded Harvard and Pinceton, but would have excluded Harvard from all the Thanksgiving games, and would have placed her at a disadvantage as to her games with Yale...