Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...true sportsman," he said, "takes little satisfaction in winning a race against an opponent who has broken his leg, and those who have cherished the loftiest hopes for our future academic development would, I believe, prefer that we wait a generation or two longer rather than that we should align ourselves with the commercial interests that are hovering like carrion vultures above the battlefields of Europe...
...real use to our country in case of need, and the great majority of them are willing and anxious to do their part. Some are best fitted by temperament, association, and previous experience, to take up some form of military training, while others for the same reasons prefer to take up a course of training, which would make them of value to our navy in the event...
...aims briskly to dispose of our fourth year of college is scarcely to be taken seriously. With our modern interest in graduate school specialization, many do "get through" in three years, it is true, but unless the majority of us have some such real inducement, we will all doubtless prefer to take our culture in the "good oldfashioned way." The four-year course may be largely sedentary, but, to use the words of Voltaire...
...article on Mexico is vividly and tersely written, but aside from being recounted by an eye-witness, differs little from the usual treatment of this subject. The attention of the editors should be called to the erroneous placing among the news notes of the fact that Dartmouth men prefer the "D" to the Phi Beta Kappa...
...Harvard men to record ourselves as disdainful of the convictions of others, more particularly of their religious convictions. Is it not the fact that Sunday afternoon is the only available time for these essential parts of the training of the regiment; and that many members of the regiment would prefer some other day if it could be found...