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...first day of registration, close to three hundred years ago. The records of the University are full of references to it and not a few times its final solution has been reported. From the fact that a few years later it had to be solved now, we may infer that the solutions were not as final as could be wished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Supplying and Satisfying the Inner Undergraduate Man Included Diets From Spaghetti and Garlic to Sweetbreads | 1/10/1935 | See Source »

...many Austrians wanted their "independence" guaranteed by other nations, the Italians in particular, will never be known, but it is safe to assume that of the 500,000 people who filed past the Dollfuss bier, 300,000 were there to make certain he was dead?not, as you infer, to do him honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1934 | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...infer, judging from the response of Harvard's psychological department, that the investigation is, essentially of small scientific worth. That would be a specious inference. The refusal of the department to have anything to do with the affair is the explicable refusal of professionals who do not care to risk their reputations on an issue which they did not themselves open and define. The obiter dictum that the questionnaire is incompetent and unscientific may, from their point of view, be necessary in explanation; but it certainly leaves them open to attack on the grounds either that they did not recognize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SECOND DAY | 3/16/1934 | See Source »

Among the duplicate books which the College is offering for sale in the basement of Widener is "School and College Finance," a well-known treatise. The successful management of the University Dining Halls last year ($40,000 profit) shows, we infer, that book-learning is not really necessary hereabouts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/31/1933 | See Source »

...unplaced in the Houses. This situation is the outgrowth of two factors, the prohibitive higher bracket in House room rents and the admission this year of an abnormally large Freshman class. Although the men in question will remain on the waiting lists for midyear vacancies, it is reasonable to infer that the present composition of the overflow will not change materially throughout next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WE ARE SEVEN | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

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