Word: neither
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...scholars today agree that the Homeric poems are neither the work of one man, as the Greeks believed, non a collection of independent lays collected and arranged by Pisistratus, as the early student of the Homeric question maintained. The questions in regard to the order of the parts, and the number of authors who had a hand in their composition, are still under discussion, and can never be definitely settled...
Although there are a great number of men entered, neither college can start more than 6 men in the 100 and 220 yds. dashes, more than three men in the 440 yds., nor more than 4 men in the other track events, but in the field events any number of men may compete...
...much felt. There was a good deal of batting and the freshmen ran bases well. Gilmore's arm prevented him from throwing to bases, and this handicapped the sophomore nine considerably. Merriam's poor judgment added to bad coaching was rather disastrous to his team in the seventh inning. Neither of the pitchers were as effective as last time but Minton fielded his position well...
...appropriate title for his verse. Most men who are at all familiar with poetry are not unaware that fourteen lines of a certain metre and rhymed in a certain way constitute a sonnet. This particular "Sonnet" has several lines badly accencentuted and some expressions hardly poetical. The "Triolets" are neither delicate nor dainty although they are as good as many of the triplets one meets. "A Song" is fairly graceful, although it exhibits no originality of thought...
...were won by one of the smaller colleges. Harvard has no intention, of which we know, of withdrawing from the inter-collegiate games and, consequently, we hardly see how the probable influence of the dual league on the intercollegiate athletics would be, as the Times seems to hint, bad. Neither Harvard nor Yale is likely soon to give up the chance for glory in winning a championship in which all the colleges compete...