Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Vassar correspondent writes: "What Vassar students think of co-education is hard to discover, but those of us who are here show by our presence what we prefer for ourselves. And yet I do not think we dislike to have other women do differently. Perhaps we believe in co-education theoretically more than we do practically, for it is useless to deny that it is easier to study books when there is no interesting human nature to study. Those with whom I have talked - and I think they are representative girls - think that after a college course is completed, when...
...open, either to improve and enlarge the two or three leading colleges and greatly increase their requirements so that the smaller colleges shall offer preliminary instruction to the larger, or else all the present American colleges must be preparatory to a higher university, yet to be established. We much prefer the former; the present education, however, rather tends towards the latter...
...Cambridge on as good terms as they can make in Boston, for it is the intention of Moses King to deal in old books, as well as to keep a good assortment of new ones. Mr. King will also take second-hand books to sell on commission if persons prefer to hold their books until they can obtain their own prices for them; and by having an attractive and somewhat popular store, the advantages offered in this line ought to argue plainly in favor of leaving books for sale in the hands of Mr. King, in preference to almost...
...ginning of the next college year, as THE HERALD-CRIMSON. All who have already subscribed to the HERALD will receive the HERALD-CRIMSON regularly, and such persons as have subscribed to the Weekly Crimson, can have the amount of their subscription returned, or receive the HERALD-CRIMSON, as they prefer. It is the desire of the editors to make the HERALD-CRIMSON the representative Harvard paper, and it is earnestly hoped that they may receive the hearty support of the students in their endeavors. Besides full accounts of all college matters and editorials on current affairs, the HERALD-CRIMSON will...
...Cambridge on as good terms as they can make in Boston, for it is the intention of Moses King to deal in old books, as well as to keep a good assortment of new ones. Mr. King will also take secondhand books to sell on commission if persons prefer to hold their books until they can obtain their own prices for them; and by having an attractive and somewhat popular store, the advantages offered in this line ought to argue plainly in favor of leaving books for sale in the hands of Mr. King, in preference to almost any other...