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...mathematics and experimental physics. Professor Byerly, his colleague in the Department of Mathematics, once said of him that he knew more mathematics than any one else in the Department of Mathematics and more physics than any one else in the Department of Physics. And there was no one to gainsay this statement or to take offense...
...fitting to speak of a matter which, although perhaps unexpressed, has been in the minds of many of us. We all feel it a great loss that at our daily morning services so little of the personality of the minister has a chance to express itself. We cannot gainsay the conviction that in the mere reading of the service, however beautiful it may be, to derive the full benefit of the noble soul and masterly mind of these men who so generously give up their time to live and work among us. Could there not be an informal talk...
...went to college at the proper time, from sixteen to nineteen years of age, who knew what line of study was really best for him. Yale has recently been compared disparagingly with Harvard, but although she has not at present so many undergraduates as that institution, no one can gainsay that she exerts a greater influence on the thought and culture of the times." Another speaker was quoted as saying that he hoped optional studies would be altogether discontinued. But what seemed to me the most queer part of it all was, that it was the earnest desire...
...acting itself can naturally not be spoken of from a professional point of view; that even the most gifted amateur can learn much from the worst and stupidest professional is a truth which no one can gainsay. Yet it was a rare comfort last evening to find that every member of the large cast really knew what he was talking about. This is a feeling that one does not often experience in the face of the professional stage. Everything that was done was governed by evident intelligence; the gestures, if not always graceful and forcible, were generally appropriate...
...gainsay...