Word: preferring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman class that has ever come to Harvard. If the classes continue to increase, as seems likely judging from the past, it is but a question of time when more suitable accommodations must be furnished either by the college itself or by private enterprise. A great majority of students prefer rooming in the college buildings, as the rooms are more convenient, and in many instances cheaper. The popularity of the college rooms is attested by the fact that not a single one remains unengaged, and the number of men who have been turned away disappointed from the Bursar's lottery...
...approval of a large number of men, As at present conducted, the hall offers us a heavy breakfast and dinner with a very light lunch which is of very inferior character. According to this we get nothing whatever in the middle of the day. I, for myself, would prefer a very much different plan and I am sure that I am not alone in my preference. Instead of the hot breakfasts, with two kinds of meat and several vegetables and the light lunches, I prefer a light breakfast of coffee, chocolate and rolls with cracked wheat, oat-meal...
...have frequently had the pleasure of witnessing Messrs. Lawford and Renshaw play, and they don't. As regards the subject of volleying at the net, in my humble opinion, perfect back-play will never beat perfect volleying, and a perfect volleyer will (though an equally good back-player) prefer to volley a perfect back-player, just as much as a perfect back-player will stand and volley a weak back-player, for the very good reason that it saves his strength, and is at the same time a winning game to play. There is not a doubt that a volleyer...
...declares its disapproval of the present system of groups of requirements and claims that the beginning made in changing the requisities for admission has been defective. "Paring down classics in order to allow room for a little more book knowledge of science, has proved mischievous. It deprives students who prefer classics of some of their proper fitting, and obliges those who lean towards science to cram on superficial primers in a way which is very unsatisfactory." What it proposes is to have two lists of admission requisitions, one prescribed, the other elective. "Under the first head let those studies...
...subject taken up, while the remaining subjects of the course are useless to him. The extension of this privilege of substituting half-a-year's work in a full course for a half-course would allow many men to consult their taste in this way. Besides, many prefer to have their hardest work during the first half-year, especially as the last half-year is generally largely occupied by outside work in many courses. A general adoption of this plan, in courses where it is possible, would probably commend itself to the body of the students...