Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...situated, the death rate is only about nine in one thousand for all ages, no higher than the death rate for the most favored ages in the state at large. Thus it will be seen that Harvard college is in a peculiarly healthy position. It is impossible to ascertain exactly what the mortality of the students is in any given year, for when a man falls sick he leaves college, and the authorities may never know whether he recovers or dies. But it is safe to assert from the experience of the physicians practicing in Cambridge that the death rate...
...address to the students at the last College Conference meeting, President Eliot described the proper function of a university to be "to teach its students to lead," as opposed to a military school which teaches rather obedience. Let us accept this definition, and try to ascertain the proper attitude of a university graduate toward politics. In the first place, if he is to lead public opinion he must himself have firm-opinions, which should be arrived at by careful, sincere and, if need be, "independent" thinking; and in the second place he should consider it to be rather his duty...
Last year, it will be remembered, the CRIMSON made a careful canvas of both the instructors and students in order to ascertain as far as possible the opinion of the university regarding the advisability of having our library lighted during the evening. The post-cards returned to us, to the number of about twelve hundred, together with a petition were sent to the corporation, and in reply we were informed that although it was highly desirable that the improvement requested should be made there was at that time no money available for the purpose. The answer given was of course...
...summer than it has ever been before. A large number of men from the English, Scotch and foreign universities will be entertained as guests. It is desired this year that Harvard, Yale and Princeton laise the money necessary for the complete success of the meeting, and it was to ascertain the sentiment of the Harvard Y. M. C. A. in regard to this matter that the meeting was called. It was unanimosly voted that Harvard raise her share of the necessary amount. The latter part of the evening was spent by the members in a social...
...committee have taken special pains to ascertain the number of men who go with the teams to other colleges. They found that more than half of the students never leave Cambridge for this purpose, "and that on the average all absences from a college exercise from this cause amount to slightly more than one each year for each student...