Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...completed, the "long cards" shall be at once removed to a place where no student or outsider is admitted without leave. Now these "long cards" compose the only catalogue at all complete. The ordinary cards do not embrace the titles of twenty or thirty thousand old volumes, nor the accessions for the last six weeks (just now no accessions since August 20, and perhaps earlier). As each book costs the Library a dollar to catalogue, - according to a statement in the Boston Advertiser, which has never been denied, - it seems but fair that the persons for whom this expense...
...will be a success. Arrangements have been made, as already stated in our last issue, with the Union Railway Horse-Car Company to run cars through from Harvard Square to Beacon Park. The Brighton cars from Bowdoin Square also pass directly in front of the gates of the Park; access to the grounds is thus rendered very easy...
...gives the most unsatisfactory and meagre information in regard to the character of a book. In half the time it ordinarily takes to find the Library boy, one could, if allowed to enter the alcoves, discover whether a book would answer his purpose; while the proposition that a free access to books stimulates reading is proved by the fact that more books have been taken from the shelves containing the new books exposed for examination than from any other collection of the same size in the hall. Students would be no more apt to take books from the alcoves without...
...undergraduates that will add so much to the permanent advantages of the University. The object of the club is to secure a collection of ancient works of art, which will be loaned to the University on the one condition that members of the club and others can always have access to it. The melancholy fate of the Gray engravings has made such a proviso necessary. It is the opinion of Professor Norton that the holder of the scholarship which the club proposes to establish will be able, in a very short time, to send home works of art that will...
...such means as the fund may supply, shall become the property of the Club, and shall be lent by them to the University, on condition that the University provide a room or rooms suitable for the exhibition of such works of art, and that members of the Club have access to the rooms at all times. In event of the dissolution of the Club, all works of art in its possession shall become the property of the University...