Word: naming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number opens with a short poem, the verse of which is much better than the subject. The first prose article, 'The Man Without a Name," is a highly interesting piece of writing, and the author does not hesitate to embody in the plot some startling details. The story threatens to border on the sensational, but its sudden and unexpected ending forbids such doubtful promise...
...volume will be, cloth, 50 cents; half morocco, 65 cents. The book will fill a great need and be a valuable acquisition to every library. As an inducement to subscribers, the publishers offer the entire set of thirty volumes for $8.50 to any one who sends in his name before March 1, 1888. After this date the price of the set will be $15.00. [New York: John B. Alden
There is among Americans a notable fondness for high-sounding names, not clearly comprehended, but forced to do service as ministers to vanity. In this service some have been racked beyond the limits of endurance. Perhaps none have suffered more than the ill-fated "university." The best of our colleges are as yet not equal to the true universities of England and Germany; but in spite of this we dub every little college with the awe-inspiring title of university, and then stand off and gaze at our work in fond admiration; and, in name at least. we place...
...frog envied the size of the ox, and though that by puffing himself full of air he might become his equal. And so we see balloon-like universities springing up around us on all sides with no foundation but a little money and a big name...
There has been formed in Boston an organization for playing foot-ball according to Association rules. Enough players to form two elevens have been heard from, and the name of Boston Rovers has been decided on. Many of the members have had considerable practice on English teams and have played at Oxford and Cambridge Universities...