Word: ascertained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...petitions for changes in elective studies presented before March 6 have been acted upon by the faculty and are in the hands of the secretary. Petitioners should call at the office at once and ascertain what further action is necessary in their cases...
...hope of obtaining an alliance of the nations. A more hopeful scheme would be to keep prices on a level by swelling or contracting the amount of money in circulation according as prices tend to fall or rise. A composite standard of value should be adopted in order to ascertain any change in prices. The coinage of the country should be based upon gold, but silver could be made to play an important part in the form of legal tender tokens. The amount of gold in circulation could be kept the same, all changes in the circulation being made...
...must act upon and through individuals. It is not surprising that many objections were found, but the most vital one was overlooked. Men who know themselves to be honorable would feel that they were degrading themselves if they should call to their aid eleven men to help them ascertain that honor, and they would ask that the same consideration they demand for themselves be given to their fellows. Public opinion is weak at Harvard to-day because it is not allowed to grow. Men are "suspects" the minute they enter the examination room. You cannot make a man morally strong...
...believe in the scientific method as ordinarily defined: Exact observation, careful experiment, rational hypothesis and verification. I took pains to read Dr. Abbott's pamphlet on "Scientific Philosophy" to ascertain what he means by the method which he advocates; and I find that he is especially desirous that philosophy shall adopt the realistic hypothesis, and believe in the objectivity of relations. In his article in the Monthly he implies that any sort of idealistic philosophy is incompatible with the recognition of objective relations. Now I have no doubt that all of the young men of Harvard whom the author addressed...
Symmetry will be determined by the degree to which his line approaches the perpendicular. To ascertain his development as compared with others, observe the intersection of his line with the lines of muscle measurements...