Word: nay
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...world serves at best but as the husk and symbol. Am I wrong in using the word realities? wrong in insisting on the distinction between the real and the actual? in assuming for the ideal an existence as absolute and self-subsistent as that which appeals to our senses, nay, so often cheats them, in the matter of fact? How very small a part of the world we truly live in is represented by what speaks to us through the senses when compared with that vast realm of the mind which is peopled by memory and imagination, and with such...
...greatly extended even by the mere ability to read other languages than his own. For it is precisely those works which are most characteristic, which most deepen and widen the mind, which quicken the sense of beauty, which beckon the imagination-it is precisely those which are untranslatable, nay, which are so in exact proportion as they are masterly. This is especially true of the great poets, the glow of whose genius fuses the word and the idea into a rich Corinthian metal which no imitation can replace. One feels this instantly with any translation of Shakespeare even into German...
...question "Shall the acts and agreements of the athletic captains and managers be ratified and stand till Jan. 1, 1894?" the vote was: yea, 689; nay...
...committee composed of the captains and managers of the four athletic organizations, ex officio, and four members of the graduate departments be empowered to draft constitutions for the four athletic organizations, to be submitted to the university for ratification before Jan. 1, 1894?" the vote stood, yea, 982; nay...