Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Members of English 12 who prefer to take their examination with English 5 on Tuesday, June 8, are at liberty...
...Saturday. The entrance fee will be fifty cents for every player. Cups will be given to the winners in both the singles and the doubles and also to the winners of the class championships. Either turf or clay courts may be used, as the players prefer. The champion of the college, Philip Sears, will be barred, but will play an exhibition game with the winner of the tournament...
...nineteen to that point of maturity in thought, and to that extent of general academical knowledge which is reached by the German gymnasia, he argues that it is, in part at least, the duty of an American University to complete this academical training. In other words, he would prefer to have prescribed work in the freshman year, at least; and for the latter years he advocates a system of groups of study, any one of which the student may choose at his own discretion. Whatever the merits of such a system might be, the great question is, whether Harvard...
...comes blazing down on the back of my head and neck till my eyes swim and I wonder whether my hair will be light pink or blue the next day. This may sound fearful, but I have got such severe headaches from this tri-weekly broiling that I prefer to cut and grind up the course in the library rather than attend the lectures. A few curtains will not impoverish our lords and masters, and will cure the defect; - why can't they be hung there at once, especially as Mass, will soon be used as an examination-room...
...thought is not opposed to religion. It is true that we do not have revivals; nor do we turn our Mott Haven team into a Salvation guard. But where is the sensible, rational person who will claim that external observances prove inward convictions? What right has any one to prefer upon mere hear-say the gravest accusations that intimate knowledge can justify? We have probably, in full abundance, all the vices of other young men, but what justice is there in stopping there in denying us per se the virtues of other college students? We have been as carefully trained...