Word: ascertain
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...examine the more important shore line features from the Bay of Fundy to southern Florida, giving special attention to geologically recent changes in the forms of beaches and to supposed evidence of recent coastal subsidence. Lines of levels will be run between the ocean and lagoons, bays, etc., to ascertain the relative heights of high tides at different points on the irregular shores, in the belief that the data thus secured will throw light on the problem of coastal subsidence. During the latter part of the summer important localities on the coasts of England, Holland and Sweden will also...
...Observatory for thirty years. She was born in Scotland in 1857 and taught at Dundee for several years. Since coming to this country she had been very active in astronomical work and was well known as the discoverer of several new stars. She was also the first to ascertain the approach of Halley's comet. Besides this work, Mrs. Fleming played a very important part at the Observatory, particularly in preparing material for the printing of the many annals which have been published...
...plainly that it cannot fail to be understood. If a man disputes a truth so stated, there is something wrong with him; his judgment is warped either by a false attitude of heart or else a pecuniary interest. In the first case, the thing to do is to ascertain the man's point of view. All men, said Jefferson, are divided into two natural parties; the democratic and the aristocratic. The former believes that society is built upon a firm foundation, the latter that it is suspended from the top. The democrat believes that if the condition of the common...
...present investigation to ascertain the number of men available as patrons, calls attention once more to the perennial problem afforded by conditions at Memorial Hall. Although the Corporation has been in control of the restaurant there for nearly two years, it has been found impossible to increase the attendance to the coveted thousand mark, when Memorial may be operated at its maximum efficiency. The fact that there has been a steady financial loss, together with the persistent rumor that the Hall is soon to have another strong competitor, seems sufficient for the advancement of the following suggestion...
Such statistics as these, especially when strengthened by the investigation made by President Lowell last year to ascertain the connection between College and Law School marks, hardly bear out the "undergraduate hallucination which assumes an entire absence of any connection between examination grades and post-collegiate success." The man who takes the view that studies are all that are worth while at College is doubtless narrow-minded, but, on the other hand, the man who fails to recognize the direct relation of studies to general capacity and effectiveness in after life is no less short-sighted...