Word: perference
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Ford said that instead of a specifically literary or historical chair, he would perfer a chair modelled along the lines of the C. Douglas Dillon Professorship of the Civilization of France, now held by Laurence Wylie. He said such a designation would allow more flexibility in courses offered in the field, and in the selection of a man to fill the chair...
...examination paper is prepared, we all know the subjects well enough to meet the demands upon our intelligence (and our imagination as well sometimes); but every student has a sympathy with certain parts of his work, and takes more interest in those parts than in others. He would perfer always to dilate upon these favorite topics. Under the old system it was as Cicero would say "bull-luck" whether he had a chance or not. Under the new regime he can show himself to better advantage...
...advantage, and that because they did not care for a lighted library when they were in college, no one now needs it. Such notions, however, may satisfy the corporation, but not the students. The present temper of the latter is wholly indifferent as to whether the corporation used to perfer squalor and darkness or not. What they want, or, at least, what 90 per cent. of those who use the library want, is a library that is open, as much of the day as libraries are ordinarily opened, and is light enough at all times for comfortable reading...
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