Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trustees of Columbia University have recently taken an action of very large academic significance in appointing a special committee "to inquire and ascertain whether doctrines which are subversive of, or tend to, the violation or disregard of the Constitution or laws of the United States, or of the state of New York, or which tend to encourage a spirit of disloyalty to the Government of the United States, or the principles upon which it is founded, are taught or disseminated by officers of the university." This committee, which is to consist of five members, including the president, will inquire generally...
...David Starr Jordan, chancellor of Leland Stanford University: "I do not believe that the universities have any normal relations to the military side of national defence beyond their general obligation to ascertain and make known the truth." --Boston Advertiser...
...order to ascertain the after-effects of college athletics upon students, Dr. James Naismith, head of the department of physical education at the University of Kansas, has announced statistics compiled after extended correspondence with former athletes. In securing his figures Dr. Naismith sent inquiries to football players on teams prior to 1907, believing these men should by this time be able to detect any after-effects of the game. The questions were sent to football men as that game, he considered, is the most violent of college sports. To the question, "What injuries did you suffer while playing football...
...MacVeagh's "In Time of Hesitation" is well formed but vague in substance. It is apparently an accusation of America standing by while Europe fights, thereby refusing the "burden of the years." It is a little difficult to ascertain just what is meant by that. America is also pictured as "battening on corpses," which scarcely seems to justify the allegation that she is thereby inclining to disgusting obesity...
...Committee urges that the members who wish to attend form groups at once of from six to 12 couples and extra men. Each group should elect a chairman who will apply to the Committee for a box before February 5. It is further urged that each man ascertain that he is a member of the Union, remembering the fact that if he has joined once, he automatically becomes a member each following year unless he resigns, the charge of membership being placed on his term-bill...