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Word: inference (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certain members of English A. The catalogue states that this course deals with the theory and practice of English composition. But some who are taking the course evidently think that it deals with the theory and practice of English conversation, especially with the practice, at least one would infer so from the conduct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 1/7/1887 | See Source »

...discovery in 1817 of a cemetery, or what must have been the site of Alva Longa. Great jars containing incinerated remains and every description of utensils were unearthed here. The influence of etrusion pottery can be clearly traced. Nowhere was any iron found, so that we may infer that these remains date from the bronze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Lanciani's Lecture. | 11/23/1886 | See Source »

...statement of some eminent divine runs to the effect that "College athletics lead invariably to drinking." Columbia must needs congratulate herself for being so singularly free (?) from dissipated young men. As there are practically no athletics here, and as studious proclivities naturally incite moral habits, we accordingly infer that the students of our university are absolutely uncontaminated by this pernicious practice.-Actu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEMPERATE COLUMBIA. | 1/16/1885 | See Source »

...introductory "To the Campus" is better than the average of the reading matter, but the rest of the editorial page is spoiled by a series of editorials on the name and reception of the paper. From these editorials we learn that Quip is "a girl," and from this infer that the central figure on the title page is a portrait of the fair daughter-in-law of Life. We think the editors should have adopted the name suggested in the last editorial, the Yale Brace, as indicating the decided need of the paper. The first picture (on page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YALE QUIP. | 4/24/1884 | See Source »

...learn from an exchange that a praise service is now in order at Yale. It is not stated whether Yale has just completed her examinations or not. We should infer such to be the case, however...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/12/1884 | See Source »

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