Word: optional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reynolds also vetoed any adoption of a 14- or 10-meal contract plan such as those which have been advocated in the past. He cited trials of these plans which showed that most students, forced to pay higher rates for full contracts, suffered by the option...
Enhancing Milady. If anybody knows about Hollywood nightclubs, and how to get a room jumping, it's Herman Hover. When he took an option on the famed Giro's six years ago, he was taking on the town's No. 1 white elephant. When a fire gutted it shortly afterward, his prospects looked even worse. But four years ago this month Hover started up again: the place has been jumpy ever since. It didn't seem to matter what happened to Hollywood-congressional investigations, hirings & firings, falling box office-so long as people could hash...
...fastest and most dangerous market ride is in "puts & calls," which is much like betting that a crapshooter does or doesn't make his point. For as little as $137.50 a speculator may buy a "call," i.e., a 30-day option to buy 100 shares of stock at the price prevailing on the day he bought the call. If the stock rises, he exercises the option and takes his profit. A "put" is the reverse: a trader buys an option to sell stock, cashes in if the price falls. (Both puts & calls are used as hedges to protect paper...
What is needed on the question of tutorial is, first, less argument and more cooperation and compromise, and, second, more thought about the problem at the center of the University and less option for the individual departments. Tutorial is dying--in fact, is as close to dead as is imaginable--because it became financially impractical in its original form. In the financial rush to get away from it, compromise has been almost negligible, and it is this compromise which might save the elements of tutorial which make it still the only sound way to unify education in a lecture system...
...first time, students will have a chance to pick up ducats for the annual Symphony Hall performance at the Music Building and PBH instead of the Boston box-office. Officials of the Band, Glee Club, and Orchestra have been granted first option on the tickets until Tuesday...