Word: optional
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Government has announced that men now in Officers' Training Camps may exercise their option between remaining in the camps and receiving an honorable discharge from the army. It is expected that men in the navy will also be released in large numbers. In view of these conditions, Harvard University has made prompt provision for the enrolment of students. This is possible from the fact that in addition to the military training, the ordinary academic organization and instruction have been kept in operation throughout...
...authorities there to make provision for training the 32 men who were to have left for Ayer next Monday for special instruction in bayonet fighting and grenades. As a result, the Second Devens Detail will be given up, and the men who were to compose it now have the option of attending the Plattsburg Under-Age Camp or not, as they...
...Officers' Training Corps units authorized to attend such camps, who have not already done so, will be required in advance to agree in writing in accordance with the requirements of paragraph 46, General Orders No. 49, War Department, 1916, to attend such camps; and also to accept at the option of the Government such transportation as the Government may provide, or mileage at the rate of three and one-half cent per mile at the colleges, schools or homes to such camp as they may be directed to attend, and mileage at the rate of three and one half cents...
...held accountable for their rooms any longer than they occupy them. If a man engages a room and leaves for war service during the summer, his entire responsibility for it ceases. If he was rooming with someone else at the time, the other man will have the option to choose a new roommate...
...which, at present, Greek and Latin are both compulsory. It now has been proposed that, instead of compelling the candidates to take two classical languages, two foreign languages should be required in the "previous examinations," of which Latin shall be one; and that the candidate shall have the option of offering as his second foreign language either Greek or French or German. It is felt that the existence of classical entrance scholarships will effectually promote the study of Greek at the university by many of the abler...