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...different clubs. The aim is to secure, as cheaply as possible, rooms for clubs which meet but seldom, and for this purpose it is intended to lease four or five rooms, which will be divided into a reading room and meeting rooms. A committee was appointed to ascertain the cost of such rooms, and what division of them could be made to accommodate the needs of the different societies. After this committee has reported, a detailed report of the plan will be sent to all the clubs, asking them whether or not they are willing to join...
...Yale crew has accepted the challenge of the Atalantas of New York. The members of the Yale crew are unanimous in favoring the race, as it will give them an opportunity to ascertain their strength and to make a close estimate of the work they will be able to do by the time of the race with Harvard in June...
Those students in Professor Sumichrast's French courses, who wish to ascertain the result of the mid-year examination as soon as possible, can do so by placing in their blue books, addressed postal cards...
...situated, the death rate is only about nine in one thousand for all ages, no higher than the death rate for the most favored ages in the state at large. Thus it will be seen that Harvard college is in a peculiarly healthy position. It is impossible to ascertain exactly what the mortality of the students is in any given year, for when a man falls sick he leaves college, and the authorities may never know whether he recovers or dies. But it is safe to assert from the experience of the physicians practicing in Cambridge that the death rate...
...address to the students at the last College Conference meeting, President Eliot described the proper function of a university to be "to teach its students to lead," as opposed to a military school which teaches rather obedience. Let us accept this definition, and try to ascertain the proper attitude of a university graduate toward politics. In the first place, if he is to lead public opinion he must himself have firm-opinions, which should be arrived at by careful, sincere and, if need be, "independent" thinking; and in the second place he should consider it to be rather his duty...