Word: access
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Huntington avenue "Y" has offered one of the best tanks in New England to the prospective team; but naturally this could only be available at the inconvenient hours when it is little used. Furthermore Huntington Y. M. C. A. is in Boston and can hardly be considered easy of access...
...such a change is by no means regretable. The increased possibilities, the easy access to Boston have not changed all the old customs. Rooms still portray personality whether it be through cards on the floor and "Life" on the table or by etchings, old prints and Maxfield Parrish. There are too, here and there, private libraries and even secluded and picturesque "eating houses", if one cares to seek them...
...offspring of Dutch and Scottish ancestry is growing as much here as in other places. Elsewhere, golf courses in an increasing number are meeting the demands of this popularity, but Harvard, with no golf course at all, has let it remain ungratified. All but those fortunate few who have access to private courses must be content with Franklin Park, but most players, because of its inconvenience, prefer to do without...
...think and the willingness to follow the logic of his carefully considered thought through to conviction is the desirable ambition for the college. This presupposes the acquisition of certain fundamental knowledge, the mastery, of the technique of finding new knowledge when needed, acquaintanceship with the method of gaining access to original sources, a disposition to seek all facts and to sort these according to relative importance before accepting conclusions, and finally an open-minded tolerance for new facts if they shall appear and be proved valid, even though they attack conclusions already formed. --President Hopkins in an address...
...goes, and should go, to the roots of the classification and efficiency of knowledge as a whole. It should include a broad purview of Encyclopedia and Bibliography, the general scope of literature and learning, and above all an understanding of library resources and classification and of how to gain access to them. It should give the student, as he begins his work here and makes his choices of roads to follow, a fair notion of the whole circumference that horizons...