Word: accessibility
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...such as, in our younger days, never even entered our dreams. Here in Boston we have the gymnasiums of the Young Men's Christian Union, and Young Men's Christian Association, open to all, on the payment of a merely nominal fee. The youth of our higher schools have access to the excellent gymnasium of the Boston Latin School, on Warren avenue, though, it must be admitted, under such restrictions as to seriously impair its usefulness * * * * * But perhaps the most noticeable change is that which has taken place in the time and attention devoted to the physical training of college...
...delay they cause to the lecture through their late arrival in the classroom, they trespass on the rights of the rest of the class. We recommend to the Library Council, then, that they close the Reading room of the Library before sunset to readers only. Let any one get access to the reserved books, to draw them, until a quarter after four...
...half-past four, being open in all seven and a half hours. If it were kept open till eight or nine in the evening, there would be from three and a half to four and half hours added. This would increase the time, during which books would be accessible, by one-half. The additional hours also would come when many men do their hardest work, and when such access to the library would be much appreciated...
...feet-is unbroken by divisions. A gallery makes the circuit of it and the walls within reaching distance of the floor and of the gallery are lined with that best of decorations, books. The general arrangement is by subjects and every frequenter of the library has unquestioned access to the 25,000 volumes here shelved as a reference library. The floor is ditted with tables, to which the reader may freely take as many books as he requires, and as the dusk comes on, a tap of the bell from the librarian's room to the engineer puts...
...impetus by the formation of the American Canoe Association in 1880. This organization is now in a very flourishing condition ; it has about eight hundred members and includes clubs in every part of the country. Under its auspices is held every year a meet at some place easy of access, at which time races, etc., are indulged in, and canoe matters are talked over. This year it is to be at the Thousand Isles...