Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...innumeri reportores et interviewores newspaperum. Lowellus - unus, ut tuns immortalis Chuzzlewit dixit, "notissimorum hominum in hac republica" - speechificavit speechum non malum; et Clivarius Wendell Holmesius cepit opportunitatem recitare, longum poema, concoctum pro occasione; sed nenter horum erat in Latino, gratiae ad coelum! Non sumus mors-super Latino bic. Prefer amus linguam Americanam, vel, ut vos prave dicitis, Anglicam...
...attractive. The original form was Cor-Cor-Cor-nell! I yell! Cornell! but to this an addition is very frequently made to cause it to run Cor-Cor-Cor-nell! I yell - like - H-ll! Cor-nell! It is needless to add that the female members of the university prefer it as it stood originally. - Yale News...
...amount of work upon the instructor but there would be a great saving of labor, and a more concise and philosophical knowledge of history among Harvard men, if the very much desired system of History 13 could become universal in our history courses. If the men in History 13 prefer the other method, it will be only their own loss if they succeed in their present attempt. It can hardly be believed, however, that the instructor will change a good system for a bad one, simply because his students do not perceive the advantages of the present plan...
...appears that the recitation hours are attended by an average on only about fifteen men. This can be accounted for only by the fact that the rest of those one hundred and twenty men, with the exception of those whom the chosen hours do not suit, prefer private instruction to that acquired by recitations. This preference Mr. Hayes thinks erroneous, as one of the greatest advantages derived from the study of elocution is confidence and ease in reading before an audience...
There will be a special examination in English XII, in Sever 5, to-day, at 10 o'clock, for all those who prefer to take the examination then rather than at the scheduled time. Mr. Wendell requests that as many men as possible take the examination to-day as a favor...