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...Republic was behind President Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt was flaying it. When the War came, after brief service as an assistant to Secretary of War Baker, Walter Lippmann was named secretary of an organization called The Inquiry, under Col. House. The Inquiry's purpose was to ascertain and formulate the peace aims and claims of all parties to the War. So well did Secretary Lippmann do his job?his abstract ideas filtered through to President Wilson's speeches?that he was sent overseas as a captain of military intelligence. There he met and worked with Editor Frank Irving Cobb?...
...World, barbarous in its extreme mechanical advancement as well as in its primitivism, is still something of an enigma to the French. Recently a symposium in the Paris Figaro has endeavored to find what the attitude of the European public is on certain aspects of Yankee civilization and ascertain what should be done about...
...Will His Majesty's Government ascertain from the British Ambassador in Washington if any British subjects were included among persons who have died from starvation recently in the United States...
...Called a meeting of President Hoover's Unemployment Committee in an effort to ascertain the exact number of jobless throughout the land as of Nov. 1 (President Hoover's last estimate...
...weekly quiz sections are intolerable. A five minute test is given, not to determine the amount of knowledge gleaned from the week's reading, but to ascertain merely if the student has done the assignment. Beyond the fact that this procedure is contrary to all pedagogical theory, it is absolutely impossible to convey any of the salient points of 150 pages of Plato to an instructor by means of a five minute scrawl. These meetings were primarily organized to solve any difficulties that the student might have, but they have been reduced to infinite and fruitless arguments on the number...