Word: access
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purchase he refused to divulge; almost certainly it was more than $1,000,000. In exchange, Mr. Bishop acquired control of the Anderson Galleries. No real estate, no stock, not even a chipped picture frame changed hands. By buying the Anderson Galleries, Mr. Bishop had merely purchased access to its clientele, the opportunity to pay rent on an old four-story building, and a vast quantity of that dubious commodity described, in financial sheets and aeronautical despatches, as "goodwill...
...three graduate courses in Mathematics, Mathematics 8, 10, and 26 in which lectures will be discontinued, the Reading Period will not effect the regular conduct of courses in the Mathematics department. In the three graduate courses in which the Reading Period will take effect, the students may have access to their tutors, but only when unable to continue their work without explanation of some difficult point. Outside problems will be assigned, with suggestions of suitable books to read as an aid to their solution...
...part, so that any student is able to carry on independent study, mathematics is a subject in which the failure to understand one point may make further progress imposible. For this reason even the graduate students to whom the privileges of the Reading Period will be extended may have access to their tutors when unable to grasp a point which is essential to a continuance of their work...
While this proposal will not be put into effect in the English department this year, Professor Tatlock declared that the students would gain more from their reading if access to tutorial conferences was made possible. The cessation of tutorial work just prior to the reading period would afford both tutors and students a rest in preparation for the final study before mid-year examinations, as well as give the student additional time for study in the last section meetings of his course, Professor Tatlock believes...
...system is planned to eliminate this. Now all the tutorial books are placed in the alcove near the librarian's desk. This section, moreover, will be enclosed next week by a railing with a wooden gate as the only means of access. He who passes through this portal will have to enter without books, or bags,--paper and pencil excepted. Then after he has finished studying the student will leave by the same portal...