Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...students who keep books more than a week. The money from fines will be used exclusively for the purchase of new books. A record of each student's use of the library is to be kept in order that the Military Office may have another method by which to ascertain the names of those who are really interested in the activities of the University...
...pertinent the question whether peace is so far beyond the horizon as most people imagine. It is not all certain for example, that the Russian debacle has been unqualifiedly to the advantage of Germany. In relieving the purely military situation it undoubtedly has been a godsend; but if could ascertain its effect on the German proletariat we should doubtless find that it has tremendously increased the difficulty of keeping the German autocracy in the saddle. There is reason to think that the German Emperor and his adviser are today viewing the question of peace more from the standpoint of maintaining...
...stationed there. An attack was launched in which apparently one company of shock troops took part. With the odds of ten to one the result could not be in doubt for long. The skirmish was short and furious; how many Germans were killed and wounded is difficult to ascertain as the attacking party carried back all its casualties...
...will also be difficult to ascertain the exact amount which the University will have contributed to the grand total, although careful observers place this amount very high. Both the Cambridge and the Charles River Trust Companies will take care of undergraduate subscriptions until noon today...
...vote polled yesterday by the Freshman class on the question of the advisability of investing a part of the surplus of the class fund in the Liberty Loan was unanimous in favor of the proposed plan, as far as it was possible to ascertain last night. The result of the balloting at the Wakefield range is not ket known, but there is little doubt but that the votes there will all fall in the same direction...