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...merely confirms the technical right of the Lacrosse men; but has no bearing upon the question of discourtesy which, in the judgment of the writer in the Advocate, is one of considerable importance, but which the answer in the Crimson waives, and, by silence upon this point, admits, we infer, that the Lacrosse Association is wrong at least in this respect...
...what the most ordinary instincts of courtesy would have dictated? Why did he not, when he found out his mistake, apologize, in some form, for his ill-advised haste? As it was, with no explanation of, or excuse for, his act, the Directors could merely infer that what he did was a wilful and malicious usurpation of authority. Unfortunately, too, his previous reputation for lack of civility was such as to raise every presumption against him. That the Bursar is an official of the College but makes the indignity the more to be censured. For a private individual...
...final examinations in Solid Geometry are now held at Christmas, instead of in February, as they were formerly, and three weeks are thus gained in which to proceed farther into Analytical Geometry. From the fact that more Freshmen are conditioned in Mathematics than in any other study, we infer that Mathematics are made disproportionately difficult. Indeed, it is questionable whether Analytics, for instance, will ever be of practical use to nine men out of every ten who are obliged to study them. We therefore regard the present system of requiring additional study in them as unreasonable, and should advocate deferring...
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...
...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...