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...safely infer, therefore, that the Lions' have little offensive punch and a not-too-rugged defense and logically conclude that their game this morning against the Crimson varsity on the B-school field will be an extremely close one which could conceivably result in a Columbia upset victory...
Mormons believe that Negroes cannot become priests-although Mormons define most active male believers as priests. Non-Mormons are prone to infer from this that Mormons are segregationists. The church replies that it has a right to set the qualifications of its own priesthood, and that excluding Negroes is no more discriminatory than the refusal of many churches (including the Mormons) to ordain women...
There seem to be few in the College who both want and are able to insure that a student's overall instruction is humanistically valuable. Those in position of responsibility usually appear to infer that because courses are given at Harvard, therefore they must be valuable. The logic of this inference is faulty: the results are regretable. "Enter to grow in wisdom" should be replaced, perhaps, by "Enter to increase in technical competence...
...writer emphatically that there wasn't one element of truth in the statements and that he knew nothing whatsoever about this matter. In spite of the fact that my brother vigorously denied any knowledge of or connection with the matter, Mr. Paisner and Mr. Kann had the temerity to infer in their article, published a week after this conversation, that Mr. Tishman was one of Coffman's "mystery backers...
Opponents of the reduction observe the painful progress which the courts, the Executive, and Negro citizens are making in obtaining proper suffrage, education, housing, and employment for Negroes. They infer that effective civil-rights legislation is not really so necessary, warning liberals not to conceive whatever legislation does get through as a salvation. Since the Civil War liberals have learned that opponents of civil rights would not respect even so high an authority as an amendment to the Constitution. That there exist inadequate laws which purport to effect Constitutional strictures is no argument against adequate...