Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with a free hand as to making engagements with other colleges; that, if Yale objected to the hardship of playing two series of games annually-one with Harvard and one with Princeton-unless Harvard also played two series, it would always be possible under this arrangement for Yale to ascertain Harvard's intentions before committing herself to games with Princeton. We attempted also to make it clear that Harvard's attitude towards Princeton is altogether friendly, and that we saw no reason why Harvard should not play ball with Princeton hereafter in the same manner that she might play with...
...apparatus now at the gymnasium will afford students an opportunity to make absolute tests of the muscles of the neck, trunk, scapula, humerus, forearms, thighs, legs, etc., and thus ascertain his real strength in any part...
...president then appointed a committee of three to ascertain what hour would best suit the members of the society to hold the Bible class...
...months since the term began and the freshman musical clubs have given no account of themselves. In former years a freshman glee club and a freshman banjo club have been among the first organizations to be effected. This year, so far as we can ascertain, the glee club has not progressed so far as to select a leader and no banjo club has been formed at all. We suspect the fault lies chiefly with the 'varsity organizations, which have a general charge of the beginning of the freshman clubs, but which have been absorbed this year in the Christmas trip...
...them for half an hour they went back to their (Yale's) quarters. In the afternoon neither freshman nor 'varsity went out before six o'clock. The 'varsity took two shells down with them, and yesterday rowed one awhile and then changed to the other. Mr. Keyes trying to ascertain which of the two, the cedar or the paper, is the better...