Word: naming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Competitors will sign a fictitious name to their manuscript, and send with it a sealed envelope bearing upon the outside the same fictitious name signed to the manuscript, and containing the real name and address of the competitor. These envelopes will not be opened till after the prizes have been awarded...
...taking part in the hunt shall be eligible for a prize unless (1) he be a member of the association, and (2) he has duly entered his name in the entry-book beforehand...
...others should feel called upon to make it a subject of study. All old institutions possess readable histories, and Harvard is no exception. Upon an occasion like the approaching anniversary it would seem strange to a visitor that not one perhaps in a hundred students could tell him the name of the first president of his college, and not one in five hundred could tell him the occasion of the university's foundation. It is true, as the librarian says, that all the histories of Harvard have been taken out of the library by men who are reading...
...undertake in his own individual capacity, yet aided by the advice of the instructor. Original research in historical work has become during the last few years an important factor in the Harvard curriculum, and although the method pursued in History 12 can hardly be dignified by the above name, yet it will no doubt prove a most beneficial course of labor for all who intend to take History 20 in future years. We must greet all such changes as those in History 12 with delight and satisfaction...
...sacred memory of John Harvard, who set the first example on the American continent, of a union between private munificence and public education which has bound successive generations as with links of steel, together, and has given to an unknown stranger a deathless name...