Word: naming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...like; 't is nothing but a name...
Insurrections in college seem to be like certain childish diseases, some time or other they must come, and the name of "Rebellion," which a certain elm in the College Yard bears, reminds us of our own weakness. But this ought not to lessen the censure with which the leaders of the revolt should be visited, and we can only hope that before long the tone of our universities may be so far raised in the way of refinement and moral character that scenes like the above may no longer be recorded to our humiliation...
...Name of the jongleur of Bertrand de Born...
...Name given by the poet to Richard Coeur-de-Lion...
...that we do not see anything inherently nasty in the smoke of an aromatic herb, whatever may be the mental effects, we give a few selections as samples of the style of argument employed in the poorest grade of Western journalism: "If it was n't just for the name of the thing, I'd rather a man with a clean mouth would spit in my face than endure the foul breath of a smoker. . . . . A fine gentleman I would be, forsooth, to spit in your face; but if I've a good stomach and a tooth-brush...