Word: naming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fitting then, as we have said above, that Graduates' Day should end our celebration, and the greatest zest and energy will mark to-day. There is no anti-climax. The Law School has done her share, the Undergraduates on Saturday showed themselves worthy of the name of men; yesterday all joined in obedience to their religious instinct, but to-day we are to see a feeling of brotherhood and cordiality rule supreme throughout the Harvard domain. Hearty hand-shaking on every side, memories that have slept during many years of work and thought, will be brought once more vividly before...
...pure secularism shall be complete, until at last religion and the mystery of life shall be forever dissipated, and the thin, hard and colorless relic which is left shall be staring upon us in the glare of the electric light which men choose to call by the great name of science. Either of these ways of looking at it all is possible. But there is yet another and a higher possibility. There may be in all this progress of enlargement which we have traced, a richer and more gracious meaning. It may signify, we believe that it does signify...
These passed on before the "Washington Corps" - about a dozen men in blue swallow-tail coats and white small-clothes, and hose. They were supposed to represent a student organization of that name existing here in the early part of this century...
...boat under command of Miles Standish to explore the waters of Massachusetts Bay, as Boston harbor was then called. As they passed the islands, which then as now stand watch and ward over the entrance of this estuary of the Charles, they bestowed upon those islands a name which they still bear, that of the Brewsters, after their Elder, William Brewster, who had been a scholar of Peterhouse in the great university in England. A year or two later, when that solitary Englishman - how he came, when and whence, we are at a loss to know - built...
...help account, together with his private character, for the honorable way in which the early records of Charlestown show that he was received here. Let us go back to 1605 and to Stratford-upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Stratford. We may stretch a point in trying to associate together the name of William Shakespeare, the first name in English literature, with that of John Harvard, the most august one in the history of American education. We know that at this very time William Shakespeare had finished his career as an actor in London, and giving himself to the writing of plays...