Word: access
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...circular will be widely distributed, the particulars may be omitted here, with the remark that they comprise matters of latitude and longitude, elevation above the sea, prevalence of snow, proximity of fuel and water, means of access, statistics or approximate information as to rainfall at different seasons, prevalence of clouds mists, smoke of forest fires, dust, high winds, frequency of thunder-storms, duration of rainy or cloudy season, etc. - Advertiser...
...counted for two volumes. These figures show a part of any great library is used in a manner which figures can record' On the most favorable interpretation, not one book in four of the whole number in the library was used at all last year, except by persons having access to the shelves and using books in a manner incapable of record. Nevertheless, it is a pleasant fact that the 1358 persons authorized to borrow books from the library carried home 44 books apiece on the average during the year 1885-86, and that this use of the library...
...times city clergyment, members of the Faculty, and, in several instances, students of the Divinity School occupied the pulpit. Never before in the history of the college has New Haven contained so many celebrated clergymen, nearly every one of whom would be acceptable to a college congregation. The easy access which we have to New York, Brooklyn, Boston and Philadelphia, where reside nearly all the celebrated clergy of our times, offers another and a strong inducement to the acceptance of this plan. But perhaps the strongest argument in its favor is the general approval it would receive from the students...
...those holding cards of admittance to the basement and stack of the library. So much confusion has been caused in this way as to impair seriously the usefulness of the institution, and may, in the future, occasion stringent measures against even those students who have great need of easy access to the less frequently used reference books. The trouble arises mainly from the failure of students to replace the books used. In that way alone over two thousand volumes were lost track of last year, - a serious matter indeed in a library taxed as heavily in other directions as ours...
...larceny of money, gold watches, and other valuables from the gymnasium, it is time that the students became aroused to the evil and turned their attention to the detection of the culprits. It is certainly a disagreeable fact, but it seems hardly possible that a stranger could secure access to the dressing rooms and lockers without attracting the attention of the attendants or students. The suspicion that the malefactor is no outsider must force itself upon us, and ought to arouse every student to be watchful and vigilant, that this disgrace may be removed by the prompt detection and punishment...