Word: ascertains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is to be a meeting of all interested students in Phillips Brooks House at 5 o'clock this afternoon to discuss and ascertain undergraduate opinion on the controversy. The meeting is under the auspices of the St. Paul's Society...
...spectacular controversy in the Episcopalian Church has found its echo in the University. A meeting of students wishing to take part in the struggle has been called at the Phillips Brooks House tomorrow at 6 o'clock, to discuss and ascertain undergraduate opinion on the matter under discussion, which was brought to its height when Dr. Leighton Parks, Rector of St. Bartholomew's in New York, denounced last Sunday the virgin birth of Christ...
...obviously the plan must include some system of frequent classroom examinations or quisses to determine who does and who does not possess that desire. And furthermore to make the diploma really valuable, it must include some form of general examination at the close of the college sojourn to ascertain whether the student has assimilated and related the facts which he has learned...
Sometime toward the end of the Elizabethen Age, Anthony Munday presented a play for the approval of the National Board of Review, a position then held by Sir Edmund Tilney. Good Sir Edmund--whether from sheer spite or momentary indisposition, reporters were unable to ascertain--grasped his blue pencil with a shriek of rage, and by means of sparkling marginal notes commanded drastic revision. Four accomplished dramatists hurried to his assistance, bore away the torn and bleeding playlet and revamped it to a more conventional pattern. Fortunately for modern scholars, one of the attending surgeons left the results...
...order to obtain books the borrower may look up in the Card Catalogue the book which he wants, to ascertain the call-number or shelf number. He then makes out a slip for each book wanted upon blank supplied at the desk for that purpose...