Word: gainsaid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that the fraternities themselves are encouraging the introduction of tutors in their houses indicates a changed attitude on their part. It can hardlly be gainsaid that in the past the fraternity has often been superfluous from the strictly educational point of view. Its social functions have tended either to ignore or impede the proper work of the colleges, so that to the average dean fraternities have been objects of toleration rather than causes of complacency. And the era of gold-brick prosperity did little to retard their centrifugal tendencies...
...discouraging. Audacious, with his alphabetical system, was summarily tossed off as in ill-mannered diletante. But when scholars of a most advanced and complex science, after impaling human specimens for their study, induce, (it's largely a matter of induction, the scientific approach, no less), their findings cannot be gainsaid. The die is cast, Sophoclean fate has decreed, and the New England tetrology are distinct types, like...
...benefit of posterity and all others interested the following description of the sweet quintessence of Harvard, made up of the best features from all obtainable authorities, may serve the useful purpose of concluding the controversy with an air of finality that is not to be gainsaid...