Word: access
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...educational methods, and he may spend a short time at one or two smaller universities. He also intends to do some research work in the British Museum and other libraries. Since this is his first visit to Europe in 14 years, he is looking forward to the opportunity for access to manuscripts and other original sources important in several of his fields of study...
...State Department, and afterward served as Director of Publicity for the American Commission at the Paris Peace Conference. It was there that Baker -the spectacled, professional, earnest man with his deep chin-dimple and his mustache-grew to know Woodrow Wilson well. Afterward, Mr. Wilson gave him access to his papers, and Mr. Baker produced, two years ago, Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement, a three-volume exhaustive study of the Versailles Peace. It was probably Mr. Wilson's perception that he was a writer of earnestness, intelligence and accuracy as well as of force and spirit that...
...disclose your mind to me you increase my admiration and affection for you. I am glad to promise you that with regard to my personal correspondence and similar papers, I shall regard you as my preferred creditor, and shall expect to afford you the first-and if necessary exclusive-access to those papers...
...study the student soon becomes competent to select authors for himself. In the departments of his "distribution" he is also possessed of some kind of compass. But unless his education has gone far beyond that of the average undergraduate all else is an uncharted sea. To have friendly access to a humanist who would pilot him past the shoals of literary rubbish and trash to the great books that are beacons of knowledge would be an opportunity of a lifetime...
...decision to give undergraduate advisers access to the grades of their advisees is based further on the belief that undergraduates can in some measure supplement the work of the faculty adviser. The plan is in the nature of a tentative experiment, and will be pursued in the future only if it is found that a sufficient number of advisers take advantage of the opportunity that it offers to do their work with an increased effectiveness...