Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after two years, take their final perpetual vows in five and one-half years. Also in the convent are "penitents," delinquent girls who may be committed by their families or by a court, and worldlings impelled to immure themselves by a sudden agony of remorse or access of faith. From these is recruited a third group, the "Magdalens," black-habited nuns who lead an austere contemplative life completely segregated from the other two. Cloistered shows many a calm, luminous face, including that of the plump, masterful Mother Superior. Accompanied by adroitly "dubbed" dialog, church music and a commentary...
When Mr. Taylor first came to the University, "the" telephone was installed in an empty office in the basement of University Hall, carefully kept under lock and little used key to safeguard against idle curiosity. A chosen few were permitted access to the contraption, but even they could find little use for it except in ordering supplies from the more progressive Boston firms then connected. With more use, the locality of the phone was changed to a closet upstairs, accompanied by its lock and key. Finally, is science marched on, the University had three instruments installed on the party line...
Meanwhile the campaign for unanimous support of music students on the petition goes on. Specifically the petition complains that music is so divided between the two buildings as to make access difficult, especially since the filing system in Harvard's main library is incomplete in this respect...
...Department. We understand that there is a room in Paine Hall entirely adequate to house the whole music collection at present so divided between Widener Library and the Music Building that music cannot be located and if found in Widener cannot be consulted because students are not given free access to the stacks. We therefore respectfully advocate that sufficient funds be allotted the Music Department to remedy this difficult situation by transferal of the entire collection to Paine Hall...
...hopelessly divided between the two buildings; or who have failed even to obtain a glimpse of music whose habitat is known. For the Paine Hall "library" is often so overcrowded that no chairs or tables remain free, and the Janus of the door to the Widener stacks refuses free access to undergraduates...