Word: ascertainment
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...third attempt to ascertain the will of students whom the hall would serve is less liable to abortion. It does not depend, like the club tables of the Union, upon laborious and unlikely experiment nor, like the petition, is it being given a limited circulation. Pledge cards are being sent to all members of the University except Seniors and students in the medical and business schools whose peculiar circumstances place them apart...
...similar to the one established with Yale on Monday has been made conditional on the decision of these other colleges by the action of the Harvard Committee on the Regulation of Athletic sports. The Committee in its meeting Monday evening authorized Director of Athletics W. J. Bingham '16 to ascertain the wishes of all the University's 1927 gridiron opponents on the question of a scouting arangement and to offer to enter into the same agreement with them as that already formulated with Yale...
...first place, concentrators in English take their general final examinations on the field as do concentrators in most other fields. The details of this matter need not be presented here, but the intention, as usual, is to ascertain that a student when he graduates not merely has at one time known certain part of the field, but still retains a general knowledge of all of it as well as a knowledge of certain allied subjects. Further, concentrators in English are aided by tutors, not only to prepare for their individual examinations, but also to acquire the habit of reading good...
Asked if, in his opinion, the present unrest in Europe and China were due to American motion pictures, Mr. Lasky answered, "Yes, to a certain degree. How much our pictures influenced foreigners is difficult to ascertain, but we are certain they have some influence. Europeans and Chinese, as well as other foreigners, see in American films the many facilities that make our life more pleasant, and perhaps easier; and it creates in them a certain restless feeling. This causes them to want to be free, and I believe, has some influence on our immigration problem...
...CRIMSON reporter on this subject: "It is the first time in history that such investigations have been made. We have been making a qualitative study of the prison life histories, periods of confinement, and subsequent careers of 500 former inmates of the Concord Reformatory, in an effort to ascertain exactly what the effect of imprisonment...