Word: neither
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Neither birds nor buds nor maidens...
...good in astronomy and physics. He was a good student in moral and intellectual philosophy. His forensics and themes, too, were sometimes of unusual merit. He never was a bookworm, however. Indeed, we learn from the pages before us that he seldom had a book in his hands; for neither at this time nor ever was he addicted to books, or much devoted to the regular studies of the college." Mr. Wright's standing was never high, nor did he aim to make it so. He stood, however, well up in the first half of his class, and received...
...Columbia School of Mines, be regarded as equivalent to the degree B. S. given at our Scientific School. Columbia, however, further desired, under plea of inferiority in point of numbers, to include among men eligible for her crew members of the Schools of Law and Medicine who were graduates neither of Columbia nor of any other college. Harvard thought that such an exception to the rule adopted by Yale and herself looked toward including in the crews a class of oarsmen whom it was particularly desirable to exclude, namely, the men who might enter some department of the University...
...neither right nor necessary that this state of things should exist. Mathematics cannot be made an easy study; but its difficulty might be vastly diminished and its attractiveness greatly increased if the faults in the present method of teaching were remedied. To the honor of one instructor, it should be said that a reform has been introduced in some of the lower courses, - noticeably, in the course in Differential Calculus. Over sixty men are taking this course, and are actually enthusiastic over it. When before were Harvard students enthusiastic over Mathematics? If all the instructors would follow the example...
...referee had ordered Yale out of what Captain Thompson called Yale's own water, - water which Yale had taken in Harvard's course, behind Harvard. Captain Bancroft stated that the referee had told both crews that each was to keep in its own course from start to finish, - that neither crew, whether leading or not, could take their opponent's water. Captain Thompson explained that the referee's directions to Yale had been given them at a time when he was not with the crew, and that he was thus ignorant of this rule. Accordingly, he withdrew the charge...