Word: preferable
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...fact, prefer fear to reason?” Sociology Department Chair Mary C. Waters asked Summers on Feb. 15, as more than 250 of her colleagues packed into the high-ceilinged Faculty Room in University Hall erupted in applause...
...Latin is beautiful. I prefer a world that is imagined in Latin—in its myths, syntax, and poetry...
...Latin is beautiful. I prefer a world that is imagined in Latin—in its myths, syntax, and poetry...
...prefer the Yard where one night freshman year some friends and I began a makeshift Primal Scream, half-naked, more drunk on life than on someone’s moonshine, gleefully befriending everyone we traipsed past; the one where earlier this year I and others made fruit juice atop a wooden press that my friend had constructed beneath the oak trees; the Yard where one night this year a dance party paraded, fueled by hundreds of portable radios; or the Yard through which a ragtag bunch marched with a bizarre, colorful, 10-foot fabric cube in the first snowfall...
...sure I’d made a mistake. Earlier that morning, on my way to school, I had dropped my college acceptance card in the mailbox after an agonizing month of weighing decisions. Did I prefer the Bay State to the Garden state? Was I better suited to the Kremlin on the Charles to the Ivy Country Club? Did I look better in crimson, or orange? Trusting the advice of various friends, teachers, and parents of friends—my own sat on opposite sides of the fence—I signed up to join the 369th graduating class...