Word: accession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...settlement houses. It is explained that the immediate need for such supervision arises from the danger of permitting physically deficient children to engage in athletics which might permanently impair their health. It is to combat this danger, arising from the ignorance of parents under a regulation which refuses them access to the physical reports of the public schools, that these students of the medical and dental schools will be employed...
...this country. As a member of the Harvard African Expedition led by Dr. Strong in 1927, he was enabled to study the gorilla at first hand, in the mountains of the Eastern Belgian Congo. Since that time, through study in the museums of several countries, he has had access to the major part of the material available throughout the world upon the subject...
...which Britons still call "the richest square mile on earth," ignoring Wall Street. The King-Emperor himself cannot enter "The City" without the Lord Mayor's permission. Neither can British troops. At any hour of day or night the Lord Mayor may have private audience with George V or access to the Tower of London. His diamond sceptre recalls that London was a sovereign city before England had a Throne. In return for all this glory, to which he is elected for a term of only one year, the Most Worshipful the Lord Mayor is expected to spend three times...
...line with the greater importance of the graduate departments that Cambridge has become a different kind of place. It is no longer a suburb of moderate size, not easy of access from the neighboring city. Harvard Square is eight minutes by subway from the heart of Boston. Old Cambridge is part of the metropolis. Its aspect has changed, and is rapidly changing more and more...
...private endowment and subscription, has never been closed to the general public, except for the first three days of last week, when, due to a misunderstanding, Professor Hamblin had a fence erected between the Garden and the property of the Gray Herbarium, had all the gates locked, and denied access to all visitors. Wednesday afternoon the Garden was opened again, by order of the President...