Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Alumni Civic Service Committee distributed special ballots among voters at the Senior polls on Wednesday in order to ascertain the forms of community service in which each man will be interested after graduation. The object is to utilize the training acquired in work such as Phillips Brooks House offers in similar service after graduation. 169 men indicated preferences for one or more of the twenty different kinds of work which were listed on the ballot, and for one of three religious denominations. In many cases four or five different branches of work appealed to the same man. Of these...
...Alumni Civic Service Committee will deliver a special ballot to every Senior voter at the polls today. The purpose of this ballot is to ascertain the form of community service in which each man will be interested after graduation. This movement among the graduates was started several years ago and its object is to utilize the training acquired in work such as Phillips Brooks House offers, in similar service after graduation...
Today the Harvard team is invading New Haven for the struggle that is to christen the Yale Bowl. Loyally following the team there is a great exodus of students from Cambridge, enthusiastic and eager for the whistle to blow. So far as experts can ascertain, the elevens balance in proved strength about as nearly as any two football machines could. Needless to say, the situation is tense, and, although we believe that the feeling betwen the two universities has never been better, all who are deeply interested in the outcome cannot help but feel the strain...
...investigation conducted by the Alumni Bulletin in an endeavor to ascertain the names of University graduate who are connected in any field of service with the European War brought the following information...
...Alumni Civic Service Committee gave to every Senior voter at the time of the election of the marshals a special ballot, the purpose of which was to ascertain in which form of community service he would be interested in after graduation. About 335 Seniors voted at this election, of whom 184 marked the special ballot. That is, considerably over half of the class showed that it was interested in some form of community service. Practical politics was the most popular form of service, having 78 adherents, while public school athletics was next with 23 voters. The other more popular forms...