Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the increasing demand for men of college training, the Appointment Office performs a function of the greatest importance. Not only do Harvard graduates often prefer to offer positions to Harvard men, but many large concerns are testing the product of the important universities. Men who intend to enter business may obtain valuable information gratis from this source...
This latest development of the growth of the preparedness movement has a real significance for Harvard men. Opportunities for training are now offered students in three branches of warfare. For men who prefer army service, there is Plattsburg; for those inclined to aeronautics, there is the new flying corps; and, thirdly, the chance to practice fighting methods on shipboard...
...names of those honorable artists and craftsmen are almost unknown. The once flourishing school of American wood-engravers has virtually dwindled to two: Timothy Cole and Henry Wolf, whose art is called into service by only a very few magazine publishers and by occasional collectors and amateurs, who still prefer the once popular engraving to the photograph or process reproduction...
...slow-moving, it is clearly patterned and has been written with pains. The "Agrippina" of Mr. Lyman Dudley lacks what so many historical productions lack,--a sense of atmosphere. Mr. Burrows' article on our foreign policy is youthful and sincere, and (so far as it goes) arrestingly written. We prefer Mr. C. G. Paulding's short editorial on the late General Huerta to his longer article. Brief, bitter, and to the point, it reveals, like so much of the writer's other work, a personality which it were far better to agree with comfortably than combat. The only story...
...rather than fight. Or else they wish her, when she fights, to have not the ghost of a chance to win. Against responsibilities as men upon whom women and children depend, against national honor (to which they apply quotation marks), they place the term "organized murder. Do they prefer disorganized suicide...