Word: inferring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should infer from a few remarks in the current Brunonian that hazing in a mild form is still more or less prevalent at Brown University. We suppose the Brunonian will object to our terming the practices "hazing," and in truth the word "roughing" would come nearer to expressing the idea in the mind of a college man. From the article in question, it seems that it has been a custom more or less prevalent among the different classes, for the sophomores to indulge in such practical jokes upon the freshman as to sell them seats in the chapel or hymn...
...much as an iron-bound and unyeilding system of prescribed studies is unwise. An elective system by complete courses or groups, - where each one at the beginning chooses a certain group of studies, all bearing towards one general end, is best. The Harvard system is, therefore, we are to infer, unwise. Although there are many objections and many just criticisms to be made upon our present system, we cannot consider it a failure. Its adoption was a step forward, - a step towards the realization of the ideal American university, and we cannot see that there is reason for a change...
...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...