Word: naming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...essay will be known as the "America Prize Essay." Any person is eligible to competition, provided his article does not exceed 25,000 words, and is received by the secretary of the Association before April 31st, 1889. Each essay must be type-written, signed by a fictitious name, and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name assumed as well as the address of the author...
Competing essays are not to exceed eight thousand words, must be signed by some other than the writer's name, and sent to the office of the League, No. 23 West Twenty-third street, New York City, on or before March 1, 1889, accompanied by the name and address of the writer, and by a certificate of standing signed by some officer of the college to which he belongs, in a separate sealed envelope (not to be opened until the successful essays have been determined), marked by a word or symbol corresponding with the signature of the essay. All essays...
Vassar College has recently received a scholarship of $6,000 from Calvin Huntington of Fort Scott, Kansas, it being his intention to provide for the education, in all coming time, of his descendants or those bearing the Huntington name. The need of scholarships is far greater than the supply therefor. Mr. Huntington's gift is highly appreciated. This is the second scholarship that the college has received within a year, the other being one of $8,000, given by the late Stephen Buckingham of Poughkeepsie...
...issue of yesterday the name of the cricket club was accidently omitted from the list of the organizations entitled to vote for the undergraduate members of the athletic committee...
...this fall at Yale. Democratic, Republican and Prohibition clubs have been formed and each of these has organized a batallon. The greatest interest at present centres in the Democratic club. Its membership has increased more than eighty per cent over that of the last campaign. The battalion, under the name of the "Sumner Guards," contains about two hundred...