Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have given business a fair trial, and by condemning as impossible careers that are simply misunderstood by their inexperienced and unsettled minds. Naturally, practical business men of a limited education, but early business training, are unwilling to take such superior (?) spirits into their offices and do not hesitate to prefer younger men, who are more amenable to reason and command than many of those well grounded in history, philosophy,-nay, all the liberal studies of a college education. Thus both employer and apprentice join in running down a career which is as full of promise for an highly educated...
...indulgent. The Military Academy has nothing of the university in either its discipline or its course of studies. Everything is made subordinate to the one purpose, that its graduates may be able engineers and soldiers that are trained to obey. The necessary hardships are such that few would prefer the necessities of West Point to the luxuries of Sing Sing, did not each one keep in mind the happy time when he should "don the army blue...
...committee has laid on the students. This is not saying that these restrictions are unwise. That is another question. It is a fact, however, that a paternal government, whatever its wisdom, always runs the risk of having rebellious subjects. It is a law of nature that every man should prefer to manage his own affairs himself, and if the government does not let him do so, it must look for insubordination...
...Brunonian announces that at Yale " the students are doing all in their power to remove the electric light that is set up near the campus. Once the pole was cut down. Now the noble youths who prefer 'darkness rather than light,' amuse themselves by breaking the globe with a Flobert rille...
...four times, as in a number of successive jumps, then the story is not so bad. If one must believe that a Greek jumped 55 feet in one leap from the level ground with weights and a run, or else doubt all Greek history, I, for my part, would prefer the latter alternative...