Word: nay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...know of no grounds on which to base Mr. Balch's dismissal. Is it necessary to have proofs in black and white that Mr. Balch does not manage the hall in the interests of the students? Is it not sufficient grounds for dismissal that he does not give satisfaction - nay, that he gives general dissatisfaction? The mildness of the directors is ascribed by some to the fact that Mr. Balch is relied on by President Eliot and the overseers, and it is said that it would be highly disrespectful to dismiss the steward against the will of the governors...
Harvard College appears to have carried athletic training to its farthest extent, but when we consider that the Greeks spent years, nay lives, to win a race or throw a wrestler, we seem, in comparison, to have paid but little attention to the training of our bodies. To the Greeks, especially, of all people, the primary requisite for success in public and private life was a corpus sanum, without which the use to them of the mens sana was gone. Thus, in training their bodies, did Pericles, Demosthenes and nearly every Greek whose name and fame have been handed down...
...policy of those who have the direction of these athletics. Of such men, I regret to say, there have been of late altogether too many for the good name of the college. The presumptuous ignorance and the appalling misconceptions displayed by the writer of this letter are truly astonishing, nay, one or two of his statements are absolutely false. He claims to express the views of a large number of loyal Harvard graduates in characterizing as childish the intricate negotiations which have been in progress for several months between Harvard and Yale; and yet he seems to be ignorant...
...Nay, nay, he is not gone...
...Nay...