Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fully up to the standard in point of numbers. The registration at the office gives 261 names, eight more than entered with '87, and only two less than with '86, the largest class which ever entered college. The addresses are given as far as it has been possible to ascertain them...
...have been informed that a canvass was made recently among the students of Wellesley College to ascertain their choice for President, and that this canvass resulted in a majority of the votes for Edmunds. This is truly gratifying. The principal objection men seem to have now a-days to woman sufferage is that if women were empowered to vote they might disagree with the 'Iords of creation' in political matters as, it is said, they have a habit of doing in many others; but the way in which Wellesley supports the views of Harvard, as expressed by the canvass made...
Cambridge University in England, is, so far as the writer has been able to ascertain, the only college which has ever successfully supported a canoe club. With the advent of the Harvard Canoe Club, it is to be hoped that an enthusiasm may be created which will result in raising this sport to its proper place in the estimation of American college men. Its advantages are so apparent, and the pleasure and profit to be derived from its pursuit is so obvious that description is useless. Suffice is it to say that no one who has once experienced the fascinations...
Dear Sir :-Yours of March 24th was duly received, and I should have replied sooner, but have waited to ascertain what days the university would use Jarvis field, and I wished to learn what the class thought in reference to our game with you. I have spoken with Loud, captain of our team, and we have decided that, if possible, we had better arrange the games by correspondence, as the expense of meeting you at Springfield would be considerable, and it seemed hardly necessary to do so. I am sorry that I have to ask you to play the first...
...daily press, that the friends of "voluntary chapel" at Harvard, take pains, before returning their nominees for overseers to the committee, to satisfy themselves by private inquiry that their preferred candidates are favorable to the reform in question. This gentleman states in addition, that he is working to ascertain the opinions of all the candidates, and hopes to make them known to the public. This suggestion seems to us quite opportune. With such a large majority of the members of the board of overseers in favor of compulsory prayers, it will take some years, at least, to change the complexion...