Word: optional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortunately Harvard undergraduates are not forced to take Anglo-Saxon. As noted above, however, those concentrating in English and attempting to secure highest honors in that field are faced with the restrictive option of either learning the language by extra-classroom methods or enrolling in that course which of all courses hold least attraction for the average man, interested in English literature though he may be--Beginning Anglo-Saxon. The result is that often even an illusory hope of a Summa is crushed in its natal travail: a half year spent in the acquisition of a tongue which...
...here are numerous and none is closed to the graduate student. Older, more settled than his younger brothers his ideals may find their realities in things of a far different nature. Where they are, they are his to choose. Between and sealing wax the difference is largely one of option, and whichever words the satisfaction is acceptable, without comment or peril, to the individual temperament, and in this case individual temperament is the ultimate criterion...
...property in Sorrento a New York Real Estate firm (headed by a Joseph S. Edelman) held an option, which, last week was delivered over to John E. Nail, Negro real estate operator.* Soon his plans became known. In Sorrento he will organize a fashionable Negro summer resort. There will be a golf course, tennis courts, a clubhouse, a swimming beach across the narrow cove from Bar Harbor...
...Glenn L. Martin Co. of Cleveland, famed airplane makers, was last week given a U. S. Navy contract for 54 bombing and torpedo planes. The Navy also took an option to buy 96 more planes of the same type within five weeks. The 54 planes already contracted for will cost $1,560,000; the entire order will assure a full year of steady work to the 800 Glenn L. Martin employes...
...Albany, to raise $6,800,000 by the sale of preferred and common stock. Special charter subscribers who take $4,000 worth of preferred will receive in perpetuity two seats to weekly performances. Charter subscribers who take $2,000 worth of stock will receive one seat in perpetuity. An option has already been taken on a site near Broadway in the 50's. When, in about two years, construction gets under way, it is hoped that this neighborhood will then be the heart of the theatre district...