Word: access
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, claimed the honor, signed. He was so excited that he forgot his glasses case as he went back to sit down. It was his first claim to fame and not a newshawk in the gallery knew who he was." Apparently, also, the newshawks did not have access to the records of the House of Representatives. The Representative spells his name Ayers, and he hails from Lewistown, Mont, and not Lewiston. When last seen in Montana, he did not wear glasses, but if the newshawks actually saw him leave his glasses case on the rostrum I of course...
...Senior writing a thesis for honors, or pursuing a strictly graduate course, is given the privilege of access to the stacks in Widener. To avail himself of this he must obtain a certificate from his tutor, or from the professor in charge of the course, and present this certificate to the Superintendent of Circulation, who grants the permit for a limited time or number of visits...
...Widener authorities have any complaints on the score of undergraduates in the stacks they should carry their complaints to faculty members who prescribe work that makes such access necessary. It is silly in the extreme to deliver these tiresome orations to seniors who have no possible interest in the general subject of the desirability of allowing anyone into the stacks, but are interested only in the fact that the work given them is predicated upon the availability of such access. The comparatively few undergraduates who are writing theses or pursuing graduate courses in the humanities compare more than favorably...
When Mr. MacCracken was subpenaed to tell about that meeting he declined to give the Senate Committee access to his correspondence files. His excuse was that as a lawyer he was bound not to betray the confidence of his air mail clients. At Senator Black's suggestion he agreed to wire his clients for permission to open his files. Two days later he calmly admitted to the Committee that the evening before during a heavy snow storm, Colonel Lewis Hotchkiss Brittin, president of Northwest Airways, and Gilbert Givvin, secretary to the President of Western Air Express, had gone...
...opening of the reading room and the stacks will be a special blessing to graduate students and instructors, for whom the hours after six o'clock constitute the only convenient time for study and research, and to undergraduates living outside the Houses, who have hitherto had no access ot library facilities for their evening study. The restoration of the old hours will also end the congestion in the stacks which has resulted from the increased volume of work to be done in the afternoons and it well mean an increase in the opportunity for the borrowing of books without breaking...