Word: ascertainment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Registration is relatively now, having been introduced somewhere around 1900--no one seems to be quite sure. Before that time, various procedures were used to ascertain who was in the College...
...object of these tests, then, was to ascertain the amount of "covert aggression" (expressed in words and thoughts, but not in action) revealed by the two groups. The hypothesis was that before practice and after the season was over the football players would show roughly the same amount of aggressiveness in the TAT as the controls, but that after practice they would show much less because they had supposedly worked...
...process consists of taking the card for the book desired and stamping it. It then does to the out desk to ascertain if the book is in the stacks. From here, a stack girl takes the card, goes and gets the book, and returns it to the circulation desk, where the card is stamped again...
...Adams House meeting the Council ignored this duty. Also the Constitution states, "25 percent of the total membership of any House shall constitute a quorum for nominations . . . (and) only recognized members of a House shall be counted for a quorum." The Council rarely identifies and counts those present to ascertain whether a quorum is present--again they failed in this duty at the recent Adams House meeting. The Council is responsible for running nomination meetings. Since it has failed to carry out its duties in a serious and efficient manner, may I suggest to the Council that...
...CRIMSON has a responsibility to ascertain the facts before allowing an unprincipled, invidious, irresponsible statement to reach the public. Once such a statement is published, no matter what the extent of rebuttal and denial, personal damage is still done, as is well indicated by the attacks upon public figures by irresponsible individuals in Washington. It must be quite apparent to the CRIMSON that it has become party, innocently or otherwise, to the mud-slinging attack instigated by thoughtless members of the community; a shibboleth joyously taken up by other individuals whose only contribution to Harvard is constant, vicious, destructive criticism...