Word: option
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last stronghold of the Spanish Moors, and their protégé, Christopher Columbus, made his long voyage west. The beaten Moslems were permitted to remain in Spain-for a time-at the cost of paying their taxes to Ferdinand and Isabella. The Jews were given a harsher option: join the church or get out. Writes Jesuit Historian James Brodrick: "The majority honorably and bravely chose exile...
Twenty-three of the 47 awards are full tuition scholarships, covering registration fee, two four-unit courses, with the option of auditing an additional two four-unit courses free. The other 24 cover registration, one four-unit course, and a one-course audit if desired...
Most students here object to the length of service after graduation if they choose flying training. One year in flying school and three more years on active service are now required for this option, while the majority of students who are taking an air comptroller administrative course now will only have to serve two years of active service after graduation...
...program is essential to attaining "the common core of knowledge" which G.E. is supposed to provide. To cut away one course, then, is to deny the program's underlying purpose, and once that is done, there is no reason against making all G.E. courses simply another option of the students' search for intellectual fodder. Even one concentrating in a field like Government, say, supposedly has much to gain from a year spent with the Social Sciences. If this is not true, the University might as well junk General Education altogether, and not dally with watering down the requirement...
...Force R.O.T.C. program, however, entails four years of active service after graduation, including one year at flying school. The flight operations option begins in the last two years of R.O.T.C. work. The program is much less popular at the College than the air comptroller course involving ground administration work, which requires only two years later service...