Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who are known as "pacifists" commonly assume that the answer two first question his "Yes". As a matter of last, while most of America, and probably, of England, take this for granted, Europe obviously does not. France for example, would prefer eternal war and consequent annihilation to German encroachment. Belgium chose certain rain rather than what the world would have considered disgrace. When one assumes that the world desires peace above everything else, one does so for the academic purpose of limiting the argument...
...hard on the proctor; his intimate knowledge of the seamy side of human nature inevitably makes him suspicious, careful even cautious. Rather should one seek to emulate the open-handed benignity of the students, who while no doubt believing implicitly that every Englishman's home is his castle, prefer to leave the drawbridge down and the portcullis...
...asking that sons of Harvard graduates be given a ten per cent, advantage over other applicants for admission to the University, the columnist of the Harvard Graduates Magazine has probably mistaken his public. That most graduates prefer to send their sons to their own college is certain enough--but that Harvard graduates would care to see their own sons pulled or pushed through the gates in preference to more capable sons of "less fortunate nativity" operating under their own power, is extremely doubtful...
...work of enduring value and probably was not intended as such. The author, who, under the name of Iconoclast, accepts at least the one idol of anonymous authorship of political sketches, is very diffuse and insists on presenting his own conceptions when the reader would prefer to be given the facts and allowed to draw his own conclusions...
...college life has shifted to Massachusetts Avenue and beyond, is unfortunate. Finally it is in human nature--or at least American nature--to be nomadic. Even to eat constantly at home becomes tedious and to eat at only one place in college soon grows unbearable. Naturally, therefore, students prefer not to pay for board by the year (with involved methods of signing off) when they know that they will not eat every meal at that one place for even two weeks at a stretch...