Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conferences are devoted to discussion of work assigned, which never intentionally duplicates course work, and which, before the senior year, has no particular regard to general examinations. In the first two years. I make some attempt to ascertain the student's interests and abilities, and to help him start work in those fields he is best adapted to: we fill in b background, and pursue literary hobbies, establishing a method of study. In the senior year the impending examinations demand that we fill obvious gaps in the field as a whole, so that the student has nodding acquaintance with...
...shall be happy to ascertain the fact...
Trouble with rascally circulation men, most of whom are trained in the rough-&-tumble school of delivery trucks and loading platforms, is an occasional experience of many a U. S. newspaper publisher. It may be the circulation manager himself who is corrupt. If so. his sole concern is to ascertain how much circulation the publisher wants, to enhance his reputation as a hustler by getting it, foully if necessary. A threadbare device is for the circulation manager to raise the salary of a district man. ostensibly for showing bigger sales. The district man is allowed to pocket part...
...tournaments are now in progress, one for all upperclassmen who have not been selected for the squad, and the other for these same men and also the members of the Varsity squad. These tournaments will enable the coach to ascertain which men, who are not on the squad, should be promoted, and if there are any, which men who are at present on the squad should not be there...
...Democrat and we need a change", or that Thomas is to receive their support "because neither of the other men is any good anyway". Another typical student attitude is that politics are dishonest and are no place for an honest man. Yet they never make an effort to ascertain the merits of the respective candidates-they merely vote the ticket supported by their fathers and their friends. The very men who are most needed in politics, if the affairs of our government are to be conducted with honesty and intelligence, are the men who are least interested in them. There...