Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wondered at. The instant that any amusement is announced that is probable to attract the fellows, some men put themselves on the alert to reap the greatest possible pecuniary advantage from the general enthusiasm. Every one is willing to help needy fellow-students, but would greatly prefer to do it in some other way. Let us have an end of this practice of "cornering;" we have seen the unpleasant results at the time of the Greek play, at concerts, and in the recent sale of tickets for the sports. We are charitable, but we do not believe that six hundred...
...every one will testify, one actually suffers on a winter's night riding in the horse-cars between Cambridge and Boston, and in many cases would prefer to walk were it not for the time it would take to reach his destination. For the very reason that the Union Railroad Company has the monopoly of the passenger traffic between Cambridge and Boston, it should be more solicitous for the comfort of its patrons in this respect...
...HERALD will be delivered by carrier every morning to subscribers having rooms in the college yard or vicinity. Subscribers may obtain copies at Memorial Hall or at Drury's if they prefer...
...prefer the aroma...
...have a grand piano, I suppose? I prefer Steinway, but Chickering will do. And two horses; and a billiard room? And, of course, you allow six nights a week...