Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competition between college tends to introduce a feeling of generous chivalry and mutual respect, there can be no valid reason for its continuance Competition carried on in an atmosphere of suspicion and ill will of necessity falls short of the desirable objective of intercollegiate sports. Under these circumstances we prefer to discontinue competition with Harvard all together. Should you wish we will of course complete such engagements as may have been scheduled between us for the present academic year. We should regard these contests as inadvisable but we should be glad to discuss the matter with ver should...
...There will, of course, be no such reply. The Lampoon speaks not for, but against itself. About it and its humor we have nothing to say, except to inquire whether that periodical reflects as it purports to do, the sentiment of the majority of Harvard's adherents. Princeton undergraduates prefer to believe that it does not--but they want definite assurance to that effect...
...crowed weren't bad enough in any sizes or shapes. And by the way in what shape do you prefer your crowd? I prefer mine as select as possible. Say three. For three's crowd. Or drunk. You see I'm easily pleased. What crowd isn't drunk with something, if it's only a sense of its own power...
...American sovereignty and that of some other nation, probably Japan or Great Britain," said Vicente Villamin, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "American imperialism is, after all, a mild imperialism, and having known America for 27 years, we who have suffered from America's tyranny of love prefer America unreservedly to any other nation on oartth...
...intimacy that is required in such a book. Barrymore's consistently distinguished family, Ethel Barrymore, John Drew, appear as perplexed spectators of the author's checkered career. What happened to this distinguished actor stranded in San Francisco at the time of the earthquake (or fire if you prefer), when people turning over for a last snooze before breakfast found themselves exposed to the startled public view and sliding pajamaed into the street; riotous nights in New York when Barymore and his cronies stole the huge plaster sword from the Dewey arch and paraded with it through every bar on Broadway...