Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the closing of the gates to the Yard on Massachusetts Avenue, Quincy Street has become one of the main routes of access to the recitation buildings and Widener. By this diversion of student traffic a minor annoyance has become a public nuisance. I refer to the condition of the sidewalks on the west side of Quincy Street. During the last few days of thaw the curbings have enclosed a river of viscous, soupy, yellow mud quite impossible to walk in without acquiring an ample coating on one's shoes and trousers...
...minor points the Commission was firm and explicit, 1) Unlimited prescription of liquor by physicians. 2) Fixing the alcoholic content of cider and fruit juices now outside the law until proved "intoxicating in fact." 3) A 60% increase in the number of Dry agents, investigators, et al. 4) Legal access to wholesale and retail houses handling denatured alcohol products to check diversion. 5) Elimination of independent denaturing plants. 6) No extension of the Federal Search & Seizure...
Michigan is fortunate in not being dominated by a tutoring school as is the case in many prominent universities in the country. Students at Princeton and Yale, for example, have access to tutoring agencies that are so efficient that they have the reputation of "spotting" a large majority of the examinations given during the year. These agencies practically guarantee, for a stipulated sum, to make it possible for a student to pass any course in which he may need assistance...
There is just one other item, to be scanned even more briefly. "The... warning was not given to undergraduates, as their access to alcohol is closely restricted...
Such an informal, unhampered access to the advantages of the University is in direct contrast to the established ritual required of those passing through the mill, grinding out its yearly crop of Ph. D.'s. It might be suggested that the Commonwealth scholars derive as much advantage from their unconventional methods of study as those earnest young men whose end in life is to enjoy the prestige of a Doctorship...