Word: ascertains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...difficult to ascertain the present status of undergraduate opinion, which is in reality of little value, being formed in many cases for mere whim...
...have appeared in your columns two communications criticising, in view of the price of board charged on the term bills, the conduct of the Dining Association. It is not long ago that the practice of publishing the term-bill price of board began. Members used to be left to ascertain it from the bursar's bills, and few of them knew, even then, the exact number of weeks for the computation. I do not mean to imply that the price used to be concealed in order to cover up the affairs of the association; there was no such intention...
...showing our kindly feeling toward Exeter, it is more for our own interests to give her some of our spare boats in preference to selling them for an inconsiderable sum. We wish, therefore to call the attention of the executive committee to the matter, in hopes that they will ascertain exactly what Exeter's wants are, and then make some arrangement towards satisfying her needs...
...meeting of the graduates of the class of '82 of Phillips Exeter Academy, now in college, a committee was appointed to confer with the remainder of the class and ascertain what are their wishes in regard to having a reunion at Exeter next June...
...desire to call the attention of the college authorities to a communication signed '83, which we give in another column, with reference to the use of one of the cellars of Hollis as a mortar-trough. Wishing to ascertain for ourselves the facts of the case, we visited the cellar in question, and found it filled with sand, troughs, tools of all kinds, and, in the centre, an immense hogshead filled with foul looking water...