Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult to foresee. The result will probably depend upon the extent to which men of affairs find that college graduates are more useful to them and show more resourcefulness and enterprise, with no less industry, than other men. If they do find this they will tend to prefer graduates who have made good use of their time in college...
...know; we do not want to know. We know only that the translators, to summon Coleridge, "first studied patiently, meditated deeply, understood minutely, till knowledge, become habitual and intuitive," linked itself to natural poetic felicity and power. The rest, the process of gestation, the travail and torment, we prefer to surmise. For the present translators are, as they ought to be, poets--fundamentally-and poets, even the more, that they could so brood over adopted progeny as to persuade at least a second paternity. When we consider the indelible Danish bias of the original, the success of this venture...
...traffic goes on the wrong side of the road." This statement is a slight exaggeration, because Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island still "keep to the left", although New Brunswick and British Columbia have recently passed laws requiring that all vehicles adopt the right turn. But the English still prefer the old method of traffic regulation, even though they have to learn to drive all over again whenever they "visit the continent" or come to America...
...records, and will make no noise unless they are pinned; (2) or they get so bored with the endless requirements, that they decide not to suffer any discipline. Eventually they may spoil their whole life because of this. Good students will follow the first course; self-conceited students usually prefer the second alternative. Neither is highly desirable; both are not uncommon at Harvard...
...writing of history is not an exact science, as anyone with the slightest acquaintance with the study of history is well aware, and some of the worst offenders in this respect have been in the past the historians of the school that Professor Hart's assailants seem to prefer. Their passionate concern for the greatness and character of Samuel Adams is gratifying proof that they love that America which undoubtedly he very much helped to create. But Messrs. O'Connor, McSweeny, Prout, Walsh and Watson as students of history should bear in mind that Samuel Adams was very English indeed...