Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...This year with the adoption of the Faculty of the requirement of physical training for Freshmen, it will be possible to re-examine the Freshmen at the end of the year and ascertain possible improvement. It is planned to demonstrate in lectures to the entire class the proper mechanical use of the body and feet, and it is also planned to give those in group D whose bodily mechanics is unsatisfactory, a certain amount of intensive instruction in small groups. It is confidently expected that with a simple explanation of bodily mechanics, and with the requirement of regular enjoyable physical...
...straw ballot held in September, 83 per cent, of those voting favored the ratification of some form of the League of Nations Covenant. During the five remaining days before the assembling of the new Congress, the Administration and the Senators are trying to ascertain public opinion on this vital question, and the above strong majority has now a chance to make itself felt. Every man in the University will have an opportunity to sign a petition to be sent to President Wilson, Senator Lodge and Senator Hitchcock, urging the reopening of debate, and the ratification of a compromise, which other...
...thrilling news comes to our ears that there is to be a new college daily. The Harvard Magazine has come out with its second platform; the first for increased salaries for instructors, and the second a "new daily to fight the Crime." Yet we are unable to ascertain whether the Harvard Magazine wishes to combat the CRIMSON, or whether it has merely been induced to espouse this new cause of the unknown proposers of the Harvard Daily. The complaints against the CRIMSON, undoubtedly supplied by the threatening journalists, have been enumerated in full, and the Harvard Magazine has taken...
...light of modern psychology we must ascertain two things. First, what traits we wish to develop. Here the criterion should be social utility or service value. Second, we must test college subjects and college teaching methods to see whether they really produce these traits. Of one thing we may be sure in advance: the fact-cramming method is sure to defeat our aim. Not only are the facts we learn in college largely valueless and largely forgotten, but the fact-cramming. Swallow-and-disgorge, tell-me-what-I-told-you method guarantees the repression of independent thought. We cannot expect...
Today's ceremony is a part of a nationwide inspection held each spring by the War Department to ascertain the strength and condition of the units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps maintained by the various colleges in the United States. Each unit is held responsible for the condition of the arms and equipment issued to it by the Government, and the commandant of the Corps must in every case state just what ground has been covered by the men in training during the year. On the basis of the reports handed in by its inspecting officers in different parts...