Word: prefers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nothing should be admitted that does not bear the marks of accurate historical scholarship. Of the two hundred pages of each quarterly number, about fifty pages should be devoted to book reviews, prepared so far as possible by experts, and either unsigned or signed as the writers may prefer. There should be space for notes and news about historical books and writers. There should also be a department for the publication of inedited documents which contain historical material of value...
...have earned any part of the consideration which men have shown me here, both in public and in private, during the past three years, it is because I have tried very hard to do my duty by them; and should it be made evident that they prefer lectures open to the public I would gladly act upon their preference. But a miscellaneous audience would, I think, take from the freedom and friendliness which are the very life of the spoken (as distinguished from the written) word...
...mere matter of habit and association the majority of men are opposed to the modern creation, the New Woman. Most men are conservative in this respect, they prefer to see women in the sphere in which they have always known them. It must appear to every one upon careful consideration that there has been too much talk upon the recent books, "Marcella" and "The Yellow Aster." Marcella branches out upon all sorts of feverish schemes and plans for social improvement in England, but in the end she relinquishes all these original thoughts and plans, and marries just like...
...night's fire. Several claim that they were handled with unnecessary roughness, and one shows a badly battered head which he alleges was received at the hands of a policeman. The aggrieved students declare that they will appear before the board of police commissioners at their next meeting and prefer charges of brutality against a number of patrolmen whose numbers the Yale men have obtained. Five Yale men were arrested during the crush at the fire, charges of obstructing the sidewalk and resisting the officer being preferred against them. They were bailed out late last night and appeared...
...difficult matter to carry on a course for more than two hundred men, in which each shall have a fair use of the necessary books without buying them all for himself. To introduce written work for so large a course requires some rigid system, systematically carried out. If students prefer hour examinations they have not made their wishes known...