Word: naming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...convicts," or in other words those who had been arrested. So Monday night a banquet was held at Gus Traeger's. There were twenty covers and an elaborate menu. The guests were those who had been arrested and had paid fines during the year. They were not known by name, but by number. They filed into the dining hall in the usual lockstep used in the penitentiaries. Such toasts as "Cops," "Nippers," "Bail," "Jugs," "Bars," "Beak," "Fines," etc., were responded to. The statistician of the occasion found that the city was $500 richer for the guests having been residents...
...such a proposition as the foregoing. How would the league sound? It might sound all right one way and then again it might not; for instance to a student from that cradle of athletics - the University of Pennsylvania - it might sound all right. There is melody in the name Pennsylvania; then, too, the derivation of the word is classic to a greater or less degree, and yet after all it seems as if a short one-syllabled name that we can think of supplies the place of Pennsylvania very well. Of course, if the Keystone State, including Philadelphia, should really...
ARTICLE I. The name of this association shall be the College Base-ball League...
...organization in October, 1885, up to its final victory over the Yale and Columbia freshmen at New London last summer. It is brightly and amusingly written from beginning to end. Little incidents are told of each man on the crew, and each one is given his own peculiar nick-name. The author gives a very interesting account, to begin with, of the organization of the crew. To quote his own words: "Forty men, more or less, the 'pride and flower' of the class, assembled in the gymnasium, afternoon upon afternoon, with beating hearts and anxious faces. Lean men, short...
...campaign torch-light procession in support of Lincoln. On that occasion, in order to have a designating cheer, the 'Rah!' was adopted. Probably it had been known in college before, much as the CRIMSON cheer is known here now. Perhaps it originated in the custom of cheering the name of every man in the class when his name was read in the old 'commencement part' lists. Well-known fellows got a full 'Hurrah!', but the cheering was perfunctory in the case of most men and naturally was abbreviated to 'rah!'" If this was the origin the cheer was, most likely...