Word: accession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard there is a student loan fund of a sort, though obsecure and difficult of access to the uninitiated. The tuition at Harvard is already high enough in comparison with state financed universities and many smaller privately endowed colleges, to make such a fund indispensable to the man characterized by Dean Jervey of Columbia as "the man with brains and character but without means". The tremendous increase in the number of young people desirous of a university education makes admission requirements a necessity, but a high tuition covering expenses should not be included among such restrictions. Tuition fees should gradually...
...even a man worthy of death. He has no special value either as a man or a Savior. The Protestant declares that Christ offered up Himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, that He is our only High Priest and Holy Intercessor, and that through Him alone we have access to the Father. The Roman Catholics, while they acknowledge His deity, declare that man must at least in part pay the penalty of his own sin, and that the hierarchy fills the place of intercession between the believer and a just and holy God. The attempt to unite these three...
...British Foreign policy toward the end of the Victorian era the Vagabond is forced to confess ignorance. But he has heard Professor Webster lecture, he knows that Professor Webster has had an unrivaled opportunity to study this subject in his work in the British foreign office and his long access to the British archives, and he is going to avail himself of this easiest and pleasantest way imaginable to find out just what Great Britain was thinking and doing in relation to the rest of the world around the year...
...debates of the editors, through all kinds of weather and in every condition. In days gone by, a keg of beer used to liven up these ball games, and nowadays I miss it. The kegs used to sit right out in the middle of the field, and at the access of any player or players at all times...
...utilitarian. For transcendentalism alone as a living force is found wanting by the same canons with which Mr. Mumford condemned the humanism of the Renaissance--it failed to affect the great mass of the people. Even a utilitarian remedy for the most pressing evils might provide the eventual access to the road to the earthly paradise...