Word: optional
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Those who fall to pass the oral tests in their Sophomore year are allowed the option of taking a written examination at the beginning of their Junior year before going on probation. This option is also granted at all subsequent examinations to students who are on probation. The written examination affords a student an absolutely fair trial before he is placed on probation, a student may appeal from the examiner's verdict. The examination will be of the same grade of difficulty as the oral, but consisting of a unit, such as an extensive, well-rounded chapter or episode, which...
...Secondly, men not having passed the orals at the end of Sophomore year shall be allowed the option of a written examination in French or German at the beginning of the Junior year--that is, before they really go on probation. And, furthermore, that a written examination shall be optional subsequently so long as the student is on probation. The passage set for the examination shall be of the same grade of difficulty as the oral, but different from it in consisting of an extensive, well-rounded chapter or episode, which need not be translated with verbal accuracy, but only...
Perhaps the solution of the prohibition question at class smokers lies in a local option vote. At any rate the Forum has the livest sort of topic for consideration...
...accept the compromise plan suggested by Secretaries Garrison and Daniels for alternate annual selection of the place for the annual Army-Navy football game by the respective institutions of West Point and Annapolis, there will be no game played this year. The Athletic Associations will be given their option of settling this controversy now for a period of ten years or of abandoning the games. This was the result of a conference between Secretaries Garrison and Daniels for the purpose of considering the deadlock between the two institutions...
...option in highway engineering as the course will be known, will be offered by the department of civil and sanitary engineering and will be under the general supervision of Professor Charles M. Spofford, although Professor Hughes will do the actual instructing...