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...question has become very deep, and that it has quite destroyed the old kindly, social life at Hanover, though it is not allowed to reach the students, and ostensibly everything is quiet. The only place where the contest can be fought out is in the board of trustees. We infer the majority think President Bartlett will live the opposition down and weary the alumni into indifference and subsequent forgetfulness, but we think they under-estimate the strength of their opposition. No college, and especially such a college, remote from the great centres, crippled in finances, troubled by internal discord, decreasing...
...said in one place of a man who was expelled: "He carried away with him all the good wishes and good opinions of his fellow classmates; if we may infer it from the fact that he left none of these commodities behind...
...such gluttony is very rare with the great aesthete, and ordinarily a hasty glance at a photograph of a sandwich is all he feels warranted in taking. By the exercise of constant care he thus avoids overloading the stomach. The great man will lecture through the country, and we infer that the price of admission will be on a scale corresponding with the life and habits of the lecturer - coins with holes in them will be taken at the ticket office; the coins returned as change and the hole kept for Mr. Wilde. - [Milwaukee...
Rubenstein wears a silk hat on Saturdays. Fact. - [Ex.] Are we to infer from this that the gentleman goes bare-headed the rest of the week...
...CHAPTER of a serial now running in one of our exchanges begins thus: "The next day was Saturday." We should infer from this that the day before was Friday...