Word: naming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...centennial of the present corporation. Columbia College was chartered as King's College on the 31st of October, 1754. During the Revolution, when New York was captured by the English, the college was closed. In 1784 the State Legislature of New York passed an act which changes the name of the college to Columbia College and placed it under the control of a body entitled the "Regents of the University of New York." On the 13th of April, 1787 the State Legislature repealed the act of 1784, reviewed and confirmed, with certain necessary alterations, the royal charter of 1754, decreed...
...recent meeting of the Sheff. Freshmen the class cane was finally decided upon. The head is of sterling silver embossed with oxidized raised flowers. At one end will be engraved "Yale, '89, S.," and on top the name of the owner. The stick is of light colored English hazel...
...than graduation from a higher institution of learning. It threw some light on the probable courses of study of the recipient, but none at all on the quality of his instruction or the height of culture and discipline attained. For all practical purposes it was necessary to affix the name of the college or "university" conferring the degree. This is still and will always be necessery, and the conservatives have a complete remedy as against Harvard by leaving to that college the naked A. B., and uniformly writing A. B. Yale, A. B. Princeton, etc., etc. No one asked that...
...diary of President Leverett furnishes us with the following curiousee ord: "November 4, 1712. A. - was publickly admonish'd in the College Hall, and there confessed his Sinfull Excess, and his enormous profanation of the Holy Name of Almighty God. And he demeaned himself so that the Presid't and Fellows conceived great hopes that he will not be lost...
President Dwight, who was next called upon, was received with three cheers and a tiger. The speaker said he had taken some part in the changing of the name of Yale College to Yale University, but he asked all present to remember Prof. Fisher. He felt that he had reason to look back on his experience with credit, for this was the 10th alumni dinner he had attended, and he had four more to attend. The speaker said he believed we were passing into a new era at Yale, as well as at older universities, and he had felt...