Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work, the article may interest those who are interested in Turner, if they are willing to forgive a patronizing tone for the sake of being informed. The dogmatic manner in art criticism, justified in Ruskin's case by his authoritative position, may in this article repel those who prefer to be stimulated by suggestion rather than to be instructed by formal teaching...
There is an increasing number of students every year who finish their college work in three years. Many of those prefer to wait a year and graduate with their own class. They take their first year in the Law School or some other graduate department. Yet they, if they have previously had a room in the Yard will be forced to give it up at the time when they would most value it: namely their own Class Day. If they have never had a Yard room, they are now debarred from one during their Senior year, when the associations...
...election of governing boards. The machinery by means of which such elections are conducted at Yale and at McGill University in Montreal is interesting both on account of the rules governing eligibility at these universities and because both allow the voters to send their ballots by mail if they prefer so doing to depositing them in person. The rather elaborate organization of the McGill Corporation is not of immediate concern to Harvard graduates, except so far as it provides for alumni representation, but it is described in full in order that the relative extent of that representation may be shown...
...personal interest and the wise judgment of my deceased husband, who was always deeply interested in promoting opportunities for sincere and earnest work in the best fields of labor. I will therefore contribute the sum of $250,000 for the construction of the pathological and bacteriological laboratory, and should prefer that this amount should be paid from time to time as the construction of the building progresses and in such manner as my son Archer M. Huntington may approve...
...notice is also posted, requesting all men to sign who prefer the present hours...