Word: accession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This much is certain. Instruction, such as it may be, is now made easy of attainment by the new ruling class and difficult of access for the old one. Commissar Lunacharsky himself has admitted: "There are no rules against anyone being admitted [to the schools] but when the applicants are genuine proletarians the examiners are a little easier with their questions...
...Having access to TIME'S inimitable columns every week, though not a subscriber, I have watched its growth with interest. Particularly interesting are EDUCATION, RELIGION critique. And LETTERS...
...other group of students will be given a separate standing. They will automatically receive the privileges of the Dean's List and access to the stacks of the Library. As an essential part of their program they will be expected to complete the ordinary concentration requirements by the end of their Junior year. Distinction men will take the regular general examination at the same time as the Pass men of the preceding class. This means that a Junior in the distinction group will have the equipment and knowledge of his field equal to that of the ordinary degree holder...
...Free of access, with easy manners crowned...
...encountered by the students in making their classifications. Chief among these was the definition of terms. What is a "moderate drinker"? One answer hazarded the opinion, "A moderate drinker is one who never refuses a drink, but never buys one." "A heavy drinker," says the same answer, "demands access to a supply at all times, and keeps himself loaded as often as possible". The writer estimates this class to be from 2 to 5 per cent...