Word: nay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arguments which they are to present will be well worth attention and consideration, although they may not always receive unrestricted approbation. Moreover, it is a novelty to have a woman speaking in Sanders Theatre. Mrs. Livermore, we believe, is to be the first woman who has ever spoken there, nay, even the first who has ever thus publicly addressed a Harvard assembly. The lecture to-night, therefore, will be of twofold interest, and we think and hope that the college will be well represented in the audience...
...unsettled minds. Naturally, practical business men of a limited education, but early business training, are unwilling to take such superior (?) spirits into their offices and do not hesitate to prefer younger men, who are more amenable to reason and command than many of those well grounded in history, philosophy,-nay, all the liberal studies of a college education. Thus both employer and apprentice join in running down a career which is as full of promise for an highly educated man as for the graduate from the High School. One of the thinkers of the century has said that...
...students that in some of the features of college life, they should have nearly, if not absolutely complete control of their actions. Such control would certainly make them more careful in what they do. Amherst with her student senate having considerable executive power, has shown that students are just, nay, even severe at times, in their judgments upon their fellows, and there is no reason to doubt that Harvard students would be less able to wield power than Amherst men. If executive power similar to that exercised by the Amherst senate should be granted to the students in a conference...
...Nay, even of that awful Three...
...keenly as they hit each other's bowling about the Lord's, or tug away at each other year by year from Putney to Mortlake. The county elevens who compete for the challenge cup of the Football Association are chosen with almost as much care as for cricket ; nay, it is whispered that professional players for the former are almost as much in demand as for the latter game, and get pretty nearly as well paid-which rumour, we may observe, if it be true, is a direct infraction of that rule of the association which enacts that "Any member...