Word: preferring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course, there are many sub-freshmen who are studying with tutors, or are at small private schools, who will be unable to avail themselves of this arrangement, and there are, too, some men who prefer to take the examinations in Cambridge on account of the experience to be gained, and also, it is to be suspected, because they wish to learn the names of the buildings before making their appearance as full-fledged freshmen in the fall. But aside from these considerations, we should think that a man could do himself more justice by taking these examinations...
...thoroughly mastered-have carried the seniors to a still more creditable victory. It will be a mistake in Cambridge boating if the university crew is deprived of the ability to fill sudden vacancies in its boat by drawing men from the class eight, simply because class captains prefer to try a fancy stroke for a two-mile race...
...have decided to demand the first game in New Haven, it may be interesting to the class to know exactly what has passed between Mr. Kent, manager of the Yale team, and myself. Mr. Kent first wrote very early in the year, February 24, stating that Yale would much prefer to have the game in New Haven, as it would be much pleasanter for them if they won. In the case of the football game, they yielded to us, and therefore, he argued, in the baseball game we should yield to them. Not wishing to begin a discussion so early...
...professors are made to feel that they themselves are the arbiters of their own actions, and that they are looked upon by the students as gentlemen and scholars, a higher tone will soon begin to prevail among them. Acts of disorder-such as the "marking down"of students who prefer not to make accurate recitations, or acts of impudent meddling, such as reprimanding students who have thought proper to get drunk-will become fewer and fewer. The professors will come to understand that the students require nothing of them except that they shall not interfere with the students...
...Yale News adopts a half-contemptuous tone in speaking editorially of the list of "Immortals" recently published in our columns. "Out of respect for the ability of Harvard students," says the News, severely, "We prefer to look upon it as an expression of personal liking, rather than the result of any deliberate exercise of judgment." We are most free to confess that we do not altogether approve of the list ourselves; but will the News kindly print us a list of its own which shall be formed, not from "personal liking," but from a "deliberate exercise of judgment," that...