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Dates: during 1870-1879
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INSTRUCTOR IN LOGIC TO MR. H. By what method of reasoning do you infer that a bullet is hot after it strikes a target? - MR. H. By picking it up, sir. - Yale Record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

...article is to demolish the `independent man,'" says the critic, "and, we infer, to disprove the existence at college to any great degree of that fungoid growth, toadyism." Nothing was further from our purpose than to disprove the existence of that "fungoid growth"; on the contrary, we regret that there is so much of it here; but we ventured to suggest that the epithet is often applied too indiscriminately. The misinterpretation of our meaning is so obvious that we do not see how it could be made accidentally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE INDEPENDENT MAN. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...article is to demolish the "independent man," and, we infer, to disprove the existence at college to any great degree of that fungoid growth, toadyism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "CONCEIT vs. CUSTOM." | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...through selfishness. Another cause of our being deprived of books is carelessness : a student finishing a book, instead of replacing it on the shelf where he found it, leaves it on the table, where it may remain the rest of the day. Not finding it on the shelf, we infer that some one is using it, so give up further search...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REFERENCE BOOKS. | 12/7/1877 | See Source »

...would naturally infer that the Yard would now wear a deserted air, - and he would be right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

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