Word: preference
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale the best men get on the crew, at Harvard a seat in the boat is largely the result of social or society finesse. If this be true, while I doubt it, it ought to be stopped. Of course of two equally good oars it is natural to prefer your fellow club or society mate to an "outsider." But if the "outsider" outclasses your friend as an oar it is a college crime to reject him. Still with all I have heard of the methods of selecting crews at Cambridge I have no fear of the crew. Indeed "the finest...
...following unfinished matches in the first round will be played at ten o'clock this morning unless contestants prefer some other time during the forenoon: 1, Lee vs. Baldwin; 2, Potter vs. Brown; 3, G. F. Brown vs. Whitehouse; 4, Orcutt, vs. Cobb; 5, Pease vs. Lincoln; 6, Wilson vs. Barron; 7, Hovey vs. Rhoades. In the second round beginning at two, the matches will be: Brooks vs. winner of 1; Kilbreth vs. Chase; Parker vs. 2; Lockett vs. 3; Russell vs. 4; Winsor vs. 5; Thomas vs. 6; Nutter vs. 7. Drawings in doubles resulted as follows: Brooks...
...ELLSWORTH.TENNIS TOURNAMENT. Play in the first round of the Tennis tournament will begin at ten o'clock, unless both contestants prefer some other time during the forenoon; second round at two; third round at half past three. All scores should be left with the man in charge of the courts. Drawings in doubles and consolation singles will be announced in tomorrow's CRIMSON...
...class races will probably be rowed on Thursday May 8. The freshmen, sophomores, and juniors all want the race on that day while the seniors prefer Saturday, May 3. If the race takes place on the 8th the crews have just three weeks after Thursday of this week...
...Foreign exhibitors prefer to exhibit their goods in the centre of a country; (b) it will enable foreigners to see our country...