Word: optional
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trustees of the Lowell estate have given notice to the committee which is trying to raise funds sufficient to buy the land and make a park that the option will not be extended after March 1. This means that over $14,000 must be raised this month, if the plan is to be carried out. A special effort will be made in the next few days, as if the sum is not raised, "Elmwood" will be sold immediately for building lots, and the scheme will be made impossible in the future. The sum already subscribed is a little less than...
...George W. Beavers, the head of the Bureau of Salaries and Allowances, has informed Col. H. A. Thomas, postmaster of the Boston District, that no other option will be offered them and the offices will have to be known by their present names. The affair would evidently have been ended some time ago if Col Thomas had realized that there is only a small part of Cambridgeport which cares about changing the name...
...began by defining a few technical terms. In the first place we must consider as a hypothesis anything proposed to our belief. Option is the decision between two hypotheses...
...believe many things without any rational reason. Our faith is usually faith in others'faith. Our belief in truth itself is of this nature. Our needs and volition may decide an option whenever it is a genuine option which cannot be decided on intellectual grounds...
...Leading features are based on fallacies.- (a) It provides for high license.- (1) High license will not increase cost of drinks.- (2) It only drives out small dealers and concentrates trade with larger ones.- (b) It grants local option to country towns, but not to New York City, Albany, etc.- (1) Small towns will reap the benefit of a part of the total...