Word: obtainable
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...gain privacy, a common room occupant must build a partition. But this is an expensive and time consuming proposition. First, students must obtain permission from the Master's office to build. Then, they must acquire the materials and construct it themselves, or hire an outside contractor to do it for them. For the mechanically inclined, the cost of materials itself can be high, in the hundreds of dollars. But those who must hire another to build for them may pay as much as $800 for their privacy...
...Students are forced to gather both the signature of their Senior Tutor and their concentration advisor. In my situation, I have to gather signatures which I had already gathered when I filed my initial study card. If unable to obtain them quickly, students fall into the third tier of fines...
...Tradition is not something you inherit," said West, paraphrasing T.S. Eliot '10, "It is something you obtain through great labor...
When W.E.B. DuBois wrote in 1903, "The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line," he was dealing with the fact that black men in America were treated as sub-human, and he was addressing the inability of the black man in America to obtain justice...
Nearly 100 years later, is it possible for a black man to obtain justice in America, or are we still dealing with "the problem of the color-line...