Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This questionnaire is well adapted to ascertain the real desires of the commuters themselves, although it is doubtful if it can determine accurately their pecuniary situation. In the event, however, that the majority of commuters are found to be satisfied with their present condition, an answer to this latter question will be unnecessary. The real service of the enterprise of Phillips Brooks House will be in finding out whether further action by the University is needed...
...dance of the Model League. Saturday morning and afternoon will be taken up by the Plenary Sessions of the Model Assembly, at which the resolutions adopted at the Committee meetings and the Council Session will be generally debated. Various systems of balloting will be employed in an effort to ascertain representative opinion of both student groups and the nations represented. In accordance with the new customary mode of Model League procedure, the session will close with a critique of the Assembly meetings as a whole. James G. MacDonald, Chairman of the Foreign Policy Association, a man widely experienced in student...
...eyes. "Is it true," he asked. "that the brewers of your city are preparing to really to the aid of the drought-stricken multitude by making beer, and not just more of the current mouth wash?" Not without a twinkle, our acquaintance assured him that insofar as he could ascertain, the news was of true report. His mentor's slow "Ah-" of satisfaction was released more gently than perfecto smoke...
...take samples of his blood while he is relaxed and then while he is in the heat of competition, it was learned yesterday. The corpuscular composition of the blood is believed to undergo some slight transformation under muscular and emotional stress and the medical authorities are trying to ascertain this change with Wood as the specimen. Wood has submitted to these blood tests after the football games this fall and now is giving samples of his blood after the hockey tilts...
...such an examination having been prescribed for candidates for honors as early as 1871; and it has been in force ever since, usually taking the form of oral questioning before a committee of the department. This test was in addition to grades in courses, and was commonly used to ascertain both range of knowledge and originality in thought. The candidate for honors had been obliged to take at least a fixed number of courses in his subject; and when all men were required to do so the question was naturally presented of extending such an examination...