Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...addition to the regular departments, all of which give interesting resumes of their respective fields, and the records of the Governing Boards, the current number exhibits its usefulness as a convenient repository of current reports, speeches and records, which would otherwise be lost or difficult of access. Thus we find in full the report of the special Joint Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, President Eliot's last speech before the Taxation Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, and an account of the late Mrs. Anna Kneeland Shaw, widow of Col. Robert Gould Shaw
...greatest progress which has been made in New York to offset this condition has been in the destruction of dark alleys, where poor tenements containing rooms in which no light or air had access, were prevalent. In the investigations made by a committee for the purpose, 360,000 rooms were found which did not have any external openings for light or air. Now the laws forbid the erection of any structure in which there shall be a single room which does not have an external opening. Mr. Riis showed many interesting views of the poorer quarters of New York under...
...Easy Access to Hospitals...
When the new buildings were planned, two conditions were recognized as imperative to the best results: easy access to hospitals for the intimate study of disease and available appointments in such hospitals. Accordingly, the Corporation has made offers to various large hospitals of parts of the 26 acre plot belonging to the University with the result that at present, three institutions, the Brigham Hospital, the Children's Hospital, and the Infants Hospital are prepared to avail themselves of these opportunities. Plans for the buildings are being drawn and work will be begun as soon as possible...
...absent from their places. A recent examination of the shelves shows that 12 volumes in addition have disappeared since the Christmas vacation. The committee has been unwilling to adopt stringent measures for protection, feeling that the most delightful element in the use of the library is its freedom of access. By placing the attendant's desk near the entrance door, it has tried to check the removal of books; but with our present staff it is impossible for the attendant to be at his post without interruption, and in any case, it is easy enough for a person...