Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probable that the English teams will agree to these conditions, with the exception of the two-mile race, as it is understood that they prefer to run the three-mile distance. The counting of second places, if the suggestion is accepted by the Englishmen, will be an innovation in International meets. In the four previous meets, it was unnecessary to provide for the case of a tie score, as only nine events were held...
...reasonable profit and at the same time offer fair dealing to their customers. There is the difficulty of financing such a proposition, but even in the event of being unable to borrow money for payment at the time of purchase, the backers would find many men who would prefer a reasonable price in the fall to selling their possessions for a song three months earlier. --The Daily Princetonian
...view of the capable showing made by this year's baseball team, the present lack of active interest in a major sport is inexcusable. Matters are fast approaching the point where members or the team would almost prefer to play games away from home, so dampening and critical is the backing accorded them in Cambridge. The Dartmouth game is a flatting time for the student body to demonstrate the strength and sincerity of its support...
...that subtle influence of tradition that no man can escape, no matter how callous; we have it in the common belief that as Harvard men we can contribute to American culture the particular qualities of the University and its environment. Perhaps this is a sort of provincialism; but I prefer a vital provincialism to an emasculated nationalism, if we are concerned with the development of intellectual diversity. It is an obvious paradox that at institutions professing to reflect the American spirit in all its variety, democracy has invested the campus with a drab sameness. Cosmopolitanism, too, has its defects...
...Latin requirements certainly explain why many sub-Freshmen prefer to hole out on the New Haven green rather than hazard the artificial bunkers and traps which guard the course to Cambridge. If we are willing to temper the wind to the handicapped lamb, let us by all means knock down a few bars and allow the relieving breeze to guide him gently to us; if not, why indulge in poignant grief at our own exclusiveness? Let us be honest with ourselves and others--let us retain our artificial barriers and glory in the fact that we have them in order...