Word: naming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...death of the "Register" one of its former contributors, anxious to wield the pen once more, started a new journal, called "The Collegian," which is said to have been of unusual excellence. Among its contributors was O. W. Holmes, then in the Medical School, who wrote under the fictitious name of Frank Hock. One of the volumes of "The Collegian" contains "The Spectre Pig," "The Mysterious Visitor, Evening." "The Dorchester Giant," and other pieces from the pen of the since famous poet. But "The Collegian," good as it was, did not escape the fate of its predecessors, and, after...
...Yale faculty fined a sophomore $2 last week for cutting his name on a tablet in a recitation room...
...year 1825, on the union of the Hermetic Society of 1813 and the "Akribologoumenoi" of 1823 with the Speaking Club, the name of the combined societies became the Institute of 1770. Catalogues have been published at various periods of its existence, from which we learn that its first president was Samuel Phillips of the class of 1771, who afterwards became lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts...
This society was established in 1791. It occupies rooms on Harvard street, and owns a library of some 7000 volumes. Its members are taken from the senior, junior and sophomore classes about eight from each class. The origin of its name is popularly supposed to be as follows...
...society bearing the name of the "Order of the Knights of the Square Table" was joined to the Porcellian, as "the objects and interests of the two societies were identical...