Word: optional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fish's second option is to do as the Princetonians do and start recruiting. Unfortunately, the word "recruit," like the word "politics," carries the stench of corruption and illegality no matter what the context. But, in its most benign form, all it really involves is telling the squash-playing applicant "We really want you to come here, because you'll fit right into the program..." That kind of prodding doesn't mean Hemenway will be populated by intellectual zombies majoring in animal husbandry, but only that the top high school players might decide to play for the Crimson rather than...
...meets, I see everyone who has been doing the same work as me with Bernal swimming well, and I know I've got no other option than to swim well; and just that confidence alone is good for your brain," Coglin added...
WITH THE CANCELLATION of Expository Writing's fiction option last week, Harvard and Radcliffe freshmen lost a valuable opportunity to write fiction in a small-group environment without the competitive pressure of advanced-level ficiton courses...
Marius said he abolished the fiction option because he concluded that he and two of his fiction teachers could not agree on how to run the program. But whatever personality conflicts have emerged within the fiction staff, it is the freshmen who will suffer, and is Marius's responsibility to resolve such conflicts...
Scotland may get its Assembly anyway. Callaghan has the option of pulling a Parliamentary maneuver to try and scrap the 40 per cent stipulation and establish the Assembly on the basis of the 52 per cent of the turnout which supported the plan. The SNP has threatened to abandon Callaghan and call for a vote of no confidence in Parliament. Without the support of the SNP, Callaghan would almost certainly have to call new elections which, given the current state of the economy, could be disastrous...