Word: accession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bidding him to "cover the ground" at all cost, and his own epigrammatic judgment, amount to disregarding his printed colleagues. A student hardly learns to know their faces or to choose among their viewpoints. The executive method of reading assignment devitalizes authoritative printed knowledge and bars the seeker from access to pre-professorial wisdom. It is a method which is fortunately yielding somewhat to the optional reading list. In time attractive lectures on sources may signify that the teacher is only a guide...
...Pittsburgh the Federal Trade Commission held hearings in an attempt to prove that the Aluminum Co. had violated the law. The company offered the Commission access to all its contracts with domestic and foreign firms, but when it came to divulging the list of its stockholders the company balked...
...great many will question the limitation of the Register, on the grounds that it will separate the college hopelessly from its graduate schools. The college office directory answers these doubts in large measure. It still admits easy access to the other departments of the University. In the long run slight inconveniences can be suffered, if the gross inconvenience of publishing a Register six months late is removed. It is the purpose of this editorial to advance as far as possible such a needed innovation...
...desert, he will hasten the eventuality. That is the great utilitarian purpose of the venture. The sporting and the scientific purposes converge on the Ice Pole, which is farther distant from any port than any other spot in the Arctic, and which for this reason is more difficult of access even than the North Pole itself. Scientifically, there are reasons for supposing that the Ice Pole is surrounded by land. Geese, gulls, eider ducks fly northward from Alaska and Siberia in early summer and return with fledglings. Prevailing winds indicate high ground in the direction of the Ice Pole...
...Dybbuk. It has remained for the Neighborhood Playhouse, tiny and difficult of access, to give what is probably the most inspiring and eventful entertainment of the season. Entertainment is scarcely the word, since The Dybbuk has been described as a pocket edition of The Miracle, doing for the Jewish religion what that stately spectacle did for Christianity...