Word: preference
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have come from the large preparatory schools the second editorial must be very welcome. By all means, let Exeter and Andover play their championship games on Jarvis Field; encourage at Andover a similar feeling for Harvard as exists at Exeter, for there is no reason why Andover men should prefer Yale, and Exeter men Harvard...
...small and selfish thing for a man to prefer his own leisure to Harvard's prestige, dawddling away his time in Boston or loafing about the clubs, when his presence and example on the crew, the nine, or the track might put Harvard to the fore, and such a man should be condemned cordially; but instead of that one hears him commiserated for being compelled to keep in training four or five months in the year. Such a spirit will never defeat Yale and Princeton. Men go out to the ball games and sit like so many dummies, almost afraid...
...Yale school, although a number of men enter Harvard each year. The number of Andover men in college is small compared to the number of men from Exeter, yet most of them feel that, if the right influence were brought to bear, an increasing number of Andover men would prefer Harvard to Yale...
...House of Represen-tatives, however, such results can hardly be expected, as the bill will call for a large appropriation and for approval of the list of officials of the Hall of Records by the American Historical Association. This naturally excludes all patronage and spoils, and the representatives prefer to take up some more lucrative bill. Nevertheless, the association hopes that the bill will pass; however, if such does not turn out to be the case, the association will not alter the bill, as a Hall of Records with officials unfit for their positions would be no benefit for students...
...present system is against centralization and the states prefer...