Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Vassar has a lake for skating on their own grounds. The only difficulty seems to be that most of the ice is cut for storage. The young ladies are now in doubt as to whether they prefer skating in winter or ice cream in summer...
...matches postponed from last Saturday will be shot at Watertown Thursday afternoon. It should be understood that members may either enter the matches or merely shoot for practice, as they prefer. Shingles may be obtained of the secretary at 22 Holworthy, from 9 to 10 A. M. on Thursday and Saturday, this week. Hereafter all competitors at club meets will be required to have paid their entrance assessment in order to avail themselves of members' privileges...
...speak for all the overseers in saying this. We are not going to abandon the study of Greek in Harvard. [Loud applause.] There will be some differences of opinion as to just what place it shall take in the curriculum, but so long as large numbers of students prefer the classical training, do not fear but that the college authorities will stand by them; and more, whatever-differences of opinion there may be as to the requirements for admission to college, we shall stand on this question all Greeks together. Though there may be a Cicoro and a Demosthenes they...
...received in their freshman year, and their average marks in the elective. Some electives might thus be valued as high as 120 per cent., others as low as 80 per cent., of the standard course. But the adoption of the plan would at once alter these figures. Students would prefer three and a half hard courses to five easy ones; the standard of the one must fall and the other rise...
...been during the last two years a pupil of Dr. Humphreys, sailed on the Arizona last Tuesday on his way to enter Christ Church, Oxford. Dr. Humphreys, therefore, has a vacancy for a pupil, either resident or daily, to prepare for Harvard as freshman or sophomore. He would prefer one having the ambition to enter on advanced standing...