Word: inference
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...structure, to get all the sunlight possible, and how, from this example, the adaptability of means to ends is carried out in nature. This general principle can be impressed on young pupils by illustrations just such as this, where enough is suggested to them, to enable them to infer truths for themselves. Teachers should take extreme care, and not try to make the young pupils study details...
...Everett spoke at vespers yesterday on the text "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." He said: We are not to infer from this that Jesus was a pessimist. On the contrary He had faith that conquered the world. Christ means simply not to look ahead and dread what is to come. A man thinks for instance that he can't spare a very dear friend. Yet when that friend is taken away he finds himself able to bear the loss, for there are resources in us unknown, and, in such trying circumstances, these come to our aid. Most...
...does not resent being kissed. The next day as the writer had resolved not to flirt with her he feels repentant and ends his Oberammergau journal with the hope that she will "try" to forget him. If the episode is founded on fact one must infer that writer and young lady had more than normal powers of impression and susceptibility. If it is fiction, it commits the sin of improbability. Certain touches of local color are well done...
...third number of the Advocate is the best. number of the year, al though this statement should not lead anyone to infer that all the articles are unusually good, for they are not. But, taken as a whole. this issue shows a decided improvement over the first two of this year...