Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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, now in charge of Oliver Cutts, 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...
...object of the Commission is "to undertake a comprehensive investigation of the sanitary condition of the city of Cambridge to ascertain the relations between them and the health and physical comfort of the people. To this end it is proposed: first, to enlist the co-operation of the various city departments and of such existing associations as are already considering particular phases of the problems; second, to undertake such original studies as may be necessary; third, to conduct a campaign of public interest in municipal cleanliness, especially in those sections of the city where the population is most dense; fourth...
...announced at the mass meeting last evening that, if arrangements were satisfactorily made, there would be a parade to the field in New Haven a week from tomorrow. In order to ascertain the number of men who will be there, blue-books have been placed at Leavitt & Peirce's and at the desk in the Union. Men who are going down to the game are requested to sign the books for their respective classes at as early a date as possible...
...swimming team will meet Phillips Andover Academy at Andover this afternoon in its second meet. The work this season is mainly to ascertain the College interest in the revival of swimming and to put the sport on a firm basis. Candidates were first called out at a meeting on January 16, which was attended by about 75 men. Within two weeks, 90 men had reported and the squad was then cut down to 30. On February 5, the team defeated the Waltham Swimming Club by a score of 33 to 26 in its first meet. On February 16, the Sophomores...
...send a competent person to China to make a preliminary study of the state of medical education and medical practice there, to estimate the probable interest of government officials in such an institution, to determine the best city in which to establish the proposed school and laboratories, and to ascertain the amount of cooperation which could be secured from existing institutions maintained by American or European money...