Word: label
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suggested to forensic writers, might form a basis on which to start in choosing topics for slips. It might be of practical benefit in the several theme and thesis courses also, to prepare a bag for slips on every topic assigned to be written on. And lastly, under each label on the outside of each bag could be written cross-reference to other bags, and, perhaps, brief bibliographies referring to more formal works on the same topic...
...musical form or organism. Its absolute purity of style and sentiment made it the more interesting as the rest of the programme was a mere jumble of tunes. The Svendsen symphony in B is an example of what a certain class of modern symphony writers will compose and label with the name of Symphony. A name to which they can only lay claim thorough their customary division into slow and fast movements. In this symphony, while the fast movements are mere tunes in the jig style, the slow movements are mere rhythmical statements of a melody. There is no attempt...
...band of men, presumably students, furnish amusement for the public by walking down Washington street wearing those hideous things called mortar-boards. They cause more comment than our Chinese professor in his gorgeous holiday attire. We wish that for the sake of the good name of Harvard they would label themselves, so that even the mistaken few would not think they came from Cambridge...
...word seems most appropriate, - it is a blue-coat, a peeler, a cop. I know not by what name that noble enforcer of the laws, that preserver of the country's peace, is best known to you; but never mind its name, perhaps it has none, the label may have dropped off. I was never well acquainted with these queer specimens until I came to college, but there I found the true article, the Cambridgeport peeler; this very fascinating individual interrupted, one Sunday afternoon, a quiet game of lawn tennis in which I was participating, and introduced himself...