Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...graduation. It is the aim of this newly organized committee to centralize the inquiries which come to the president of the university and the officers of the several classes from big concerns and to canvass the class to determine what men want positions and what kind of places they prefer...
...obligation for their country's needs? These are the men who think less of what they can give to their country than of what they can get out of their country; who, while claiming all the ample privileges and protection accorded by the American government to its citizens, prefer to think that their duties end with the payment of a certain amount of taxes...
...many of our own hundred million and odd people prefer the "touch-and-go" method in reading to the permanent joys of possession? The question is not idle in a land vastly richer in popular libraries than any of the countries of Europe, Great Britain included. The set-off is that we have a large public nurtured in the tradition of buying; the foreigner who settles in our reading atmosphere finds to his surprise that we purchase as well as borrow books to an extent unknown abroad. The "shelf" movement had its greatest success here; the new cheap editions were...
Just as in the fall and spring, when many are using the gymnasium, hundreds of others prefer the tennis courts, so in winter, although the gymnasium is then less unobjectionable, cost of us favor the open air. There is something a bit unpleasant in the cold still air of the gymnasium. Out of door exercise is vastly more alluring and invigorating...
...School is presumed to have a personal acquaintance with each of the students, and to be able in person or through delegation to give to each proper advice. Students who desire to have a general business course will find such a curriculum mapped out for them. Others who may prefer to specialize will find a sequence of courses in a variety of subjects; accounting, banking, finance, transportation, commerce and trade, business organization and management, manufactures, advertising and salesmanship, and the like. At the end of the second year the degree of Bachelor of Science will be awarded so that those...