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Recent diggings in Nebraska revealed a few similar and more perfect teeth. These the museum staff had studied and were delighted to learn that they had erred in their first deduction. The teeth, they announced last week, had served no anthropoidal beast, but an ancient, bristly, snub-nosed pig, a...
So far as Britain was concerned the matter was not entirely one of conjecture. That country, to protect its communications with India, has a prime interest to serve in bottling up the Mediterranean Sea, which it does from Gibraltar; Tangier opposite, under international control, being "everybody's dog is...
In the first place the Class of 1931 is a new class: new things are different and therefore by perfect syllogistic deduction the Class of 1931 is different. There is a second opportunity to confound the blase by pointing out the fact that hope springs eternal in the human breast...
¶An ingenious deduction emanated from Oxford to explain the frequency of discoveries of old Roman coins. The explanation: In Roman garments there were no pockets, only loose folds. Coins, brooches, studs, gems, girdles dropped out easily.
To the underclassman there appears possible some poetic justice in the announcement that from May 1 until Commencement all Seniors in good standing will wear their caps and gowns while in attendance at classes. But steady observation has led this writer at least to the deduction that (1) either there...