Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class day, will give especial attention to the matter of the gatekeepers on Friday next. Last year professional ticket-takers were employed in the place of the policemen who had served in previous years, in order that the large following of the latter gentry might not find so ready access to the yard. But it has been ascertained on excellent authority that it was the practice of some of the professionals employed to give a package of yard tickets to some accomplice, who would stand in the neighborhood of the gate and sell the tickets to whoever wished to purchase...
...Eliot Cabot of Boston is engaged on a biography of Emerson, which will be the "official" life of the poet. Mr. Cabot has had access to the poet's papers for nearly two years, and it is said he is to be the literary executor of Mr. Emerson...
...life of Longfellow is being written by Dr. G. L. Austin, of Cambridge, and will be published in May. Dr. Austin has access to all of the dead poet's papers and is assisted by the family in his work...
...supposed cases. The need for any of these plans in any case is not very serious, but still there are undoubtedly blunders made by many, if not by most of the men, in selecting their courses, which are afterwards regretted, and would have probably been prevented had they had access to good information and advice upon the subject. We know, of course, that it is written that "members of the faculty will be ready at any time to render assistance in this regard;" but it is notoriously the case, nevertheless, that comparatively few men do ever secure the advice...
...library, great collections, and numerous teachers. The small colleges cannot be expected to possess these advantages, yet thousands of desirable students do excellent work in them, up to the limit of such college's power. Harvard makes this year a new offer to the graduates of other colleges - namely: access by competition, to scholarships...