Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...where they have to dress for practice cannot blame them very much for their apparent indifference. The locker rooms are dark, unsanitary and improperly ventilated; the lockers themselves are minute and crowded together without regard to the comfort or health of their users. No wonder candidates for the team prefer to wait for warmer weather when they can use the Locker Building on Soldiers Field, quite palatial in comparison to the Gymnasium...
...adversaries may feel that this step is proposed in order to get more winning teams, but this is not the case, as is shown by the fact that practically no good athletes prefer to discard their sports for professional studies. It is simply felt that such a harmful rule should be changed into a better one. The desire to be fair to our opponents has been carried too far, and a regulation has been made which is unfair to the more diligent of our own undergraduates...
...American plan at a fixed price of $5 per week, in accordance with the vote of the members on December 18, Extra orders will be paid for as before, by coupons. The transient system will continue for men who do not eat regularly at Memorial, and prefer to pay only for what they order...
...tennis matches are scheduled for today. The semi-finals of both singles and doubles tournaments will be played on Monday afternoon, though if the individual contestants prefer, they may be played off at any time before that. The final round will be played Tuesday. The matches to be contested in both singles and doubles are given below...
...particular reason for continuing the system during the year. By charging half price for the first half-week, the Hall could start regularly on the Monday following the opening of College, and save a great deal of trouble and expense for the many men who naturally prefer to enter or leave the Hall on Monday morning in order to make arrangements with other eating places...