Word: naming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...word they are not afraid of being serious. As a result, the magazines become something more than literary, and please the thought as well as the taste of the reader. But setting them aside and taking up the "Harvard Monthly" we are inclined to think that the name "literary" would be far more applicable to it than to any of its contemporaries. But strange to say, the apparently proper order of things is exactly reversed, and while all the other publications are called "literary," the Harvard publication is not so called. Of course names are of little importance. Still, that...
...often said that 'the faculty' governs Yale. This cannot be the so-called university faculty, embracing all the professors, for that faculty never meets, and exists only in name. Which, then, of the six faculties is it that enjoys this prerogative, and what position does it hold toward the other five? Or is it true that the interests of the university as a whole are entirely neglected...
Many of these aspirants for learning and free-lunch have honest ideas of what work is, and so, by ruining their health in study, give occasion for the German equivalent of a "fresh-air" charity. This we find under the name of "Sick Student's Relief Association." which sends large numbers of men to the health resorts and other recruiting places...
Lost. - A new silk umbrella, with name and address sewed in. Please return...
...Davenport Adams, forsooth, that he should be taken as an authority over the second fohos, Ben Johnson, and a host of other commentators? So Mr. Adams would have us spell 'Shakespeare' in any way we choose? It is a question if Mr. Adams would care to have his name spelled in more than one way. There is a gentleman in Philadelphia who has amused himself by making out two thousand ways of spelling Shakespeare's name. Would it not be advisable for the "Shakespeare" Club to buy this little book select the most curious spelling and adopt it as their...