Word: naming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...facts and rumors put in the box at Leavitt & Pierce's must contain the name and address of the sender, in order to secure insertion...
...insist on such evidence against a student as would stand only after passing through the mazy and fitful processes of law courts; if, as was remarked in our own recent trial, you are going to make the faculty not judges but mere jurymen, how in the name of common sense is the conviction of any student to be secured? You say, "take measures that will compel students to testify under penalty of expulsion." But to say nothing of the inquisitorial character of such a proceeding, two very serious difficulties stand in the way which the law escapes, and which...
...property of the Annex, Mrs. Caroline Howard Gilman, the widow of the Rev. Samuel Gilman, has presented to this room a picture of her husband, under which is written his own verses. The "Fair Harvard" is one of the favorite recitation rooms in the Annex, and its appropriate name will undoubtedly cling...
...smuggle exercises of this character into instruction given in the name of arithmetic, is an abuse. By it has has been created a bastard arithmetic which fails to perform the true function of that study in our public schools - namely, to produce accuracy and a reasonable degree of facility in numerical operations, while wasting the time of the pupils, perplexing their minds, worrying their tempers, rasping their nerves, and, in case of total or partial failure, unnecessarily and unrighteously shocking and impairing their self-respect and scholarly ambition...
...MOTT HAVEN" CUP.As has been the custom at the Third Winter Meeting during the last seven years, the president of the Athletic Association brought forward the "Mott Haven" cup, and in an appropriate speech presented it to the view of the audience, explaining how the name "Mott Haven" came to be applied to it, and giving the names and records of those to whom Harvard is indebted for its possession at the present time. Those who won first prize at the Polo Grounds last May were the tug-of-war team, composed of Easton, L. S. (anchor), Chase, '88, Pendon...