Word: preferments
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...committee has laid on the students. This is not saying that these restrictions are unwise. That is another question. It is a fact, however, that a paternal government, whatever its wisdom, always runs the risk of having rebellious subjects. It is a law of nature that every man should prefer to manage his own affairs himself, and if the government does not let him do so, it must look for insubordination...
...Brunonian announces that at Yale " the students are doing all in their power to remove the electric light that is set up near the campus. Once the pole was cut down. Now the noble youths who prefer 'darkness rather than light,' amuse themselves by breaking the globe with a Flobert rille...
...four times, as in a number of successive jumps, then the story is not so bad. If one must believe that a Greek jumped 55 feet in one leap from the level ground with weights and a run, or else doubt all Greek history, I, for my part, would prefer the latter alternative...
...cent. caused by the society in Cambridge prices would soon be at an end. But the undergraduates of to day, with no experience of the normal Cambridge prices, feel no such sentiment leading them to back the society. The men who count dollars and cents and do not prefer to run up bills are. of course, members. Unfortunately the experience of this year has shown that there are only about 790 such men in college...
...number of men who prefer to stay in Cambridge rather than "go down for the holidays," as our English undergraduate cousins say, is growing larger every year. This year about an even hundred spent the vacation at college, and some of the occurrences of the period may interest the men who went home for their recess...