Word: gainsaid
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...White in referring to them, answers the question admirably. He states that "it is very rarely that a word or a phrase can be set down as an Americanism except upon probability and opinion; whereas the contrary is shown, if shown at all, upon fact-proof that cannot be gainsaid. The citation of a word from English literature at or before the time of Dryden shows that it cannot possibly be "American" in origin; evidence of its continued use by British writers during the last century and the present proves the impossibility of its being an Americanism in any sense...
There can now be no doubt about it. The Harvard Annex is an undoubted success. The triumphant announcement is made, as the final clinching argument, which can not be gainsaid, that three of the undergraduates are engaged to their professors. The most perverse opponent of co-education and the higher education of women can not continue incredulous after such monumental success as this has crowned the four years' effort of the Annex. If such a result had been confined to the experiment entered into with such fear and tremboing at Cambridge, it might be considered something phenomenal...
...career. Friendships are formed which abide. Where a college exists by itself, students are thrown more together. These impressions are stronger. The friendships which are formed are more earnest. The college life makes a larger part of the life of the individual. All these are advantages which cannot be gainsaid, but they lead back to the question whether what is most to be considered is the pleasure of the student or the training which is to help his after life...
...Crimson in regard to the introduction of fire-escapes into the college dormitories. It would seem as though the recent Milwaukee disaster might move even the careless minds of the Harvard corporation to take some precautions in the matter. It is a fact that can not be gainsaid that the provisions at present in force in the yard are totally inadequate and ridiculous, and that the danger is imminent...