Word: access
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back its claim the "Tribune" declares that there are many high school students who are denied access to a higher learning because they are not allowed the income from professional ball playing. And why not allow them such a privilege? Does not the Rhodes scholarship committees take a broad and sane outlook on this matter in demanding that applicants be of all round development. As for the possibility that a man would become an undergraduate only as an athlete and not as a scholar, a careful scrutiny of scholastic records would determine his sincerity. In short, the present rule...
...cost of wars, engaged in when she regarded her future existence as threatened, Japan secured on the mainland strategic positions which she is determined not to abandon. At the same time she has discovered that access to the raw materials of the mainland is necessary to enter here into the question whether her population has grown beyond the capacity of the islands to support it. The fact is that Japan, like all other civilized countries, is engaged in developing an industrial life. She does not want to be deprived of the natural advantage here geographical position gives...
...Oriental-wise, decrease our demand. Limitation or enrollment, it is true, has not been the policy of Harvard. The reason is that it is not entirely in accord with the tradition of a liberal institution. The idea that Harvard should deprive any one intellectually qualified of access to the opportunities it offers has not been popular...
...conversational invasions of unprotected dormitories, are all notorious. But the social service workers seem to have overlooked them. If we stop to think of them seriously, the dangers in their path are evident. The examples they see among students are not always good for their tender years. With free access to many dormitory rooms, temptation is open to them, and there are frequent reports of petty thefts, not serious in themselves, but indicative of a warp in the boy's character that may result disastrously...
...according to Dean Gildersleeve, a limited number of unusually able students will be permitted to study in their chosen field and at the same time be exempt from the larger part of the ordinary routine, prescribed courses and other impediments to a liberal education. They will be given free access to the privileges of the graduate schools, and will be relieved from all examinations except a comprehensive one at the end of their senior year. Barnard is thus going one step in advance of the tutorial system adopted in some departments here, in approaching a practical American adaptation...