Word: preferments
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...Piot. One is a large figure picture representing two richly dressed Italian peasant women offering an orange to a pretty child, upon whom the attention is centred. The drawing is superb, and the flesh tints, though delicate and soft, do not possess the naturalness of a Bouguereau. Yet many prefer Piot to the latter...
...That in the judgment of the directors the above arrangement will enable men who prefer the present board at five dollars to procure it for the same cost, while it will secure to those preferring lower rates and simpler fare a system which will fully meet their desires...
...proposed to circulate a paper at Memorial to receive the signatures of those who are willing and desire to stay in the hall with even the present rates for board. There are undoubtedly many who would prefer this alternative to the closing of the hall...
...wondered at. The instant that any amusement is announced that is probable to attract the fellows, some men put themselves on the alert to reap the greatest possible pecuniary advantage from the general enthusiasm. Every one is willing to help needy fellow-students, but would greatly prefer to do it in some other way. Let us have an end of this practice of "cornering;" we have seen the unpleasant results at the time of the Greek play, at concerts, and in the recent sale of tickets for the sports. We are charitable, but we do not believe that six hundred...
...every one will testify, one actually suffers on a winter's night riding in the horse-cars between Cambridge and Boston, and in many cases would prefer to walk were it not for the time it would take to reach his destination. For the very reason that the Union Railroad Company has the monopoly of the passenger traffic between Cambridge and Boston, it should be more solicitous for the comfort of its patrons in this respect...