Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PRIVATE SCHOOLS have always been an expensive option for the normal child. For many other children, private schools have been an equally expensive and sometimes unattainable substitute for the public schools that could not or would not take them...
Robert J. Kiely, associate Dean of the Faculty, suggested the changes, which include an option for students to take advanced standing at the end of their freshman year and a plan by which students could do a year's work toward their degree away from Harvard...
Kiely's proposals also encompass a plan originally suggested by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Tests, under which students would be allowed the option of taking a "Field Tutorial" year away from Harvard for regular course credit...
Those students rightly found the plan inconsistent and unsatisfactory: it determined student need according to elaborate criteria but gave department chairmen the option to fund students as much as $1000 below that calculation. Then it earmarked another pool of funds for departments to use as bait for promising students who do not qualify for need-based stipends...
...bursting into rapturous applause. Partly this seemed to express appreciation on purely sensory grounds for the novelty of Schöffer's pleasantly mad bag of magical tricks. Partly it was relief that the show was over. Mostly, perhaps, it was gratitude that the audience's grandest option had not been exercised-extending the basic 78 minutes of programmed sequences to the maximum of ten hours...