Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Going On" along Harvard's waterfront and reports that only five men out of the-thirty-seven Seniors in the N.R.O.T.C. are contemplating a civilian postgraduate career. Most interesting to landlubbers, though, is the Gallup poll which E. W. Garrison has made of the Harvard sailors. The local gobs prefer destroyers to battleships, ships to planes, and blondes or brunettes to redheads. More than half the men don't smoke, and only a few go through a pack per day. Freshmen and Seniors are ardent Wellesley fans, with Smith winning the Sophomoric hearts and Vassar neck and neck with Bennington...
...educated minds, and young minds in particular, for today's great crisis is first and foremost the problem of the younger generation, our generation. At this date the Young Communists' League and its ilk have been far more active and stimulating than the editors of the Advocate, who apparently prefer the way of the Irresponsible. Melvin H. Freedman...
Jackson's recommendations: 1) deposit criminal aliens in jail; 2) parole those who are guilty of only technical infringements; 3) set up a board to examine all deportables. Under whichever category Valtin-Krebs might come, he would probably prefer prison in the U. S. to almost certain death in Nazi Germany...
...perfectly clear, I think, that the Germans prefer guns to butter--at any cost--and they will continue in their preference even if all Europe starves...
...interesting extra-curricular activity in which every Harvard man has been vitally involved is dodge 'em in the Square, twenty-four hours a day. Late classes and missed trains threatening more than free render rides, it seems that scholars still prefer the leap to the look. The boys have been playing this game for over three hundred years and are nearing the end of the overtime; next period is sudden death...