Word: optional
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pending bill does not force the system upon unwilling communities, but allows local option...
...question be settled by arbitration. Yale rejected this proposal, as it was thought that the experience of former debates did not justify any change in the method of procedure. Princeton then modified her first proposal to the extent of giving twelve minutes to each side for rebuttal, with the option of giving that time to either one or two speakers. Yale would not agree to this arrangement and Princeton then decided to stop negotiations for the present year...
...definitely settled that the Yale game will be played as usual at Hampden Park, Springfield. H. H. White, Harvard's athletic manager, has secured the park this year at satisfactory terms and has also secured an option on the park for next year. Mr. White has already awarded the contract for erecting the seats, which will be built on a larger scale, so that the seatlng capacity will be increased from...
...Duzer has obtained the option of the New York Baseball Grounds for the date of the game and it will probably be played there. If asked, the University Athletic Club will probably manage the whole thing so that there will be no work for the universities...
...High licence with "local option" is the most effectual method of dealing with intemperance: No. Am. vol. 144, p. 500; Nation XLVI. 71; Pof. Sci. XXVI. 790-2; Nordhoff, Polit. for Young Am. 156; Boston Herald, Dec. 10. '92. - (a) It will reduce the number of saloons: No Am. CXLIV. 499; Nation XLII. 52, XLVI. 71: - (b) Licences will defend their privileges against unlicenced dealers: No. Am. CXLIV. 499. - (c) The fewer the saloons the less the political power: No. Am. vol. 144. p. 500. - (d) It has all the good features of prohibition without menacing personal rights: And Rev.IX...