Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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AFTER suffering in silence from the cold at prayers for two days, we instructed our reporters to ascertain exactly how cold it was; and accordingly, on Wednesday, two of them gave us the following results. One of them, in a comparatively secluded corner, found his thermometer had fallen to 42, and as yet showed no intention of remaining fixed; the other, in a more exposed situation, yet not more exposed than that occupied by most of the two upper classes, recorded a temperature of 36. Under such circumstances as these, we should like to ask those of our government...
...chum should have chosen to give a punch in No. 43 on the very night before our hardest Annual I never could tell. I suppose it was because of the peculiar inappropriateness of the time. But give a punch he did, and that, as near as I could afterwards ascertain, compounded of the most dissimilar and deadly ingredients. The horrors of that night I shall never know, for I passed the time in study with a friend in C. H. I returned to the room in the morning, however, in time to wake Sam for the examination...
...present time, when so much is being said about the department of Oratory and Rhetoric in our own College, and an effort is being made to improve the condition of our literary societies, it is neither uninteresting nor profitless to ascertain how much importance is attached to these arts in foreign universities, and to examine the success of undergraduate clubs formed for the purpose of fostering them. The Oxford Union Society is an organization of this character, and the report of the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary in the London Times, of October 23, affords good evidence of its success...
...remaining officers were chosen by acclamation, there being only one candidate for each place. Their names are given below. At the conclusion of the election instruction on various points was given the committees, and it was voted that the Class Committee ascertain the expediency of placing a stained-glass window in Memorial Hall. After cheers for the officers the meeting was dissolved. The following is a complete list of the officers chosen...
...them to assume a business air and talk volubly of the rise and fall of stocks, the average collegiate is gloriously indifferent to it. Such topics awaken no interest in his breast. It makes no difference to him what gold is quoted at, and he never troubles himself to ascertain. He is told of the panic, of the very dull times, etc., but to no purpose; a panic is something of which he has no clear conception, and of dull times his idea is not much better, for they never appear to disturb one here...