Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Fisher announced at the end of the 1924 football season that he would prefer to devote himself to business, the newspapers and sports writers declared that his retirement would be no disappointment to the larger percentage of the alumni body. That this statement was both hastily and ignorantly conceived was shown by the fact that Coach Fisher was practically forced, in spite of his own sincere protestations, to continue in office for one more year. At the time, he emphatically stated that he would have to resign at the end of the 1925 season...
...that illusion on the stage of life is even more enduring than on the stage of the playhouse, that illusion is "the main thing". "The Paraclete" referred to by the other title, is the eternal spirit who runs this show place called life and who seeing that men instinctively prefer pleasant lies to unpleasant truths, is a comforter to his people by providing them with the deceptions which will make them happy...
...some excellent shots of Blarney Castle and the countryside about Killarney which are downright pretty. Just when one's enjoyment of the ivied walls and crested turrets reaches its height, Meighan walks in like an American tourist in a china shop and ruins the entire effect. We would infinitely prefer to see Ireland alone...
Hermione is shocked. Hermione wants to marry her cousin Orestes. Helen does not like the straight-laced young fellow and would prefer her to marry Pyrrhus, the daredevil son of Achilles. Then there is the rumor that Eteoneus, the gatekeeper, brings to Menelaus: "Your sister-in-law Clytemnestra-your double sister-in-law, I might say; your wife's sister and your brother's wife-has been living with Aegisthus ever since Agamemnon went to Troy...
...enjoyed the welocme to the class held at Smith Halls. I was proud to see President Lowell. Is he Harvard's center? I would prefer it to be something permanent. At the meetings in the Union I especially liked the speeches of the undergraduates. If not the center, at least they are the heart of Harvard. But the essence of Harvard...