Word: optional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bring to pass was a sumptuary one. No law should be passed that cannot be enforced. Maine is an example that the prohibitory law is useless. Mr. F. S. Stebbins, '90, spoke first on the negative. The Prohibition party has made great strides since 1884. They have gained local option and the passage of a bill authorizing instruction in public schools on the prohibition question from a scientific standpoint. Mr. Green, '89, was second on the affirmative. He said that total prohibition was impossible. There are many illicit distilleries in the South which will be sure to increase under...
...examination system at Amherst has been entirely done away with. A series of written exercises given at the option of the professor at intervals throughout the term has been substituted. It is said that the new plan is highly satisfactory to the Amherst students. The habit of cramming before examinations is no longer possible...
...Hale made a brief address, demanding the hearty co-operation of the students in the pleasure and duty of helping on the services. "Here in the midst of liberal ideas tending toward elective studies, there is one matter in which there is no option-the wish of the university that every freshman who enters this week goes forth four years hence better fitted to withstand the allurements of the world. What we all want is the confidence of the students...
...shall hereafter be left to the option of teams of the association whether they choose to use a field-captain or not, provided said captain be an undergraduate or graduate of that college in regular standing...
...course at best; these papers have contained either fewer questions, but of a comprehensive character such as would allow the student an opportunity to show whether he could write intelligently upon the subject, or else there have been many more questions in order that the student might have an option in his choice of subjects...