Word: naming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...name of the hound who returned at midnight on the night of the chase has not yet been ascertained...
...prevent some misunderstanding to state that Dr. Bellows's name is in the Catalogue as an Overseer...
...given to the hounds should be lengthened to ten minutes, and, secondly, that instead of enticing embryo athletes into a run of fifteen miles, with a notice of a course of "about six miles," some more definite idea of the distance be given. Would it not be well to name the place furthest off (for instance, Waverley) that the course would touch, so that a man could have some idea of what is before him? However, the two meets have been very successful, and we congratulate the Athletic Association on the success of their revival of Hare and Hounds...
...readers who may be unacquainted with his position in college to expose him in his true colors. Mr. King is not, in any proper sense of the word, a Harvard student. He has come here, as he himself has admitted in conversation, as a business enterprise, because the name of Harvard has a certain pecuniary value connected with it. He has occupied most of his time since he has been here, not in his studies, but in compiling and publishing guide-books, - very estimable works in their way, but showing conclusively that the writer's literary ability is extremely slim...
...have come to Harvard to study and to fit themselves for future usefulness, and the College has appreciated them according to their devotion to such an aim. But we see that this is not the purpose of the editor of the Register. He merely trades on the good name of "student" to put money into his own pocket. If, to acquire his education, he were forced to do this, there might be some excuse for thus prostituting the fair name of Harvard to mercenary ends...