Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Shooting Club has, during the past months, given its support only to shotgun shooting. This course was certainly reasonable, inasmuch as the majority of its members prefer that branch of the sport. The weather, moreover, has been anything but favorable for rifle practice. But the season has now arrived when target practice can be had, without the liability of interference from stormy weather and heavy winds...
Dartmouth plays all but two of her games away from home. Brown and Amberst both prefer to play at Hanover...
...exhibition games, it is necessary to say a word of explanation with regard to this feature of all ball-games. If field athletics are to continue, the expense of them must be met in one of two ways, either by gate-money or by subscription. Most young men prefer to give their money at the gate, and thus to pay for what they see. If a club knows that it is to spend only what it earns, it will be stimulated, first, to play as good a game as possible; and secondly, to spend its earnings with prudence. It seems...
...athletics includes more than playing with professional nines. The employment of professional "trainers" in preparing students for contests is, for some, the chief evil. Such trainers are looked upon as bad companions for our young men. It is quite natural that students, when taking lessons of any kind, should prefer the best masters. Unfortunately, the best masters are not always the best men. That the pupils are, therefore, always led into bad courses by the example of their instructors does not follow. There is enough good sense in college students generally to dissociate good instruction from faults of character...
...member winning it three times, not necessarily consecutive, or of any member breaking 15 balls straight. Entries for the cup will be 25 cents. After this match as many practice scores will be shot as the time allows. Members may shoot in the cup match for practice, if they prefer, in which case no entrance fee will be charged...