Word: optional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...before the first annual, and the intervening days are devoted in most cases to hard study. Cramming, as this pre-examination study is almost universally called, takes a number of different forms. The lower classes, whose time has been almost entirely devoted to mathematics and the classics, have little option in the matter. To cram up successfully, the text of the works must be gone over in some form. In mathematics the propositions of geometry and the problems of algebra are reviewed with more or less care, according to the natural taste of the student for the subjects. Some...
...system of giving the freshmen the option of choosing for themselves what courses they desire to pursue has now been under trial for nearly a year, and it would be well to look at some of the effects produced...
...movement in Harvard College against compulsory attendance at morning prayers has again failed, the petition of the remonstrants having been rejected by the corporation. The petition asked simply that undergraduates over twenty-one years of age should be allowed to exercise their option in the matter, and that those under that age should be governed by the option of their parents. The decision is very curious when taken in connection with the yearly extension which is given to the elective system in the choice of studies. One would think that there was nothing in a young man's life...
...should be glad to have, not later than the end of this month, the name of every man who means to avail himself of this option offered...
...also voted in deference to individual option that no political transparences reflecting upon either of the prominent candidates should be borne in the procession...