Word: naming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have long since learned that no case lies against the undergraduate because he does not attend Union lectures. True he sometimes allows the prestige of the name of the lecture or the lack of it, to influence him more than it should in proportion to the subject matter. And as it is very difficult to secure "famous" men for every lecture and as this qualification is after all, relatively one of degree, the subject matter of the lecture is the only consistent basis of appeal for attendance...
...will of the late Judge Addison Brown, of New York, Harvard University receives a bequest of $10,000 to be applied as follows: "$7,500 thereof in founding a scholarship bearing the name 'Addison Brown,' the income thereof to be applied toward paying the expenses of some needy meritorious undergraduate student to be designated by the College under prescribed regulations; the remaining $2,500 of said $10,000 legacy in establishing a Prize Fund bearing the name 'Addison Brown' in the Dane Law School, now known as the Harvard Law School, the income thereof to be awarded annually or biennally...
...Committee of the Department of English has selected the subject "Panama" for the poems to be submitted this year by undergraduates for the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize consisting of $100 and a silver medal. Each poem should not exceed '50 lines, should bear an assumed name, and should be accompanied by a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer as well as the assumed name. All manuscripts should be left at University 20, at the Office of the Secretary of the Faculty not later than 5 o'clock on April...
...Harvard and the Public Eye," Mr. Murdock, who seems to stand in great awe of the "Century"--he calls it the 'majestic' "Century"--points out the futility of trying to arrive at general conclusions about Harvard, unless one knows Harvard life thoroughly. In "The Treasure of Carvaernon" (the name in the story itself is spelled Carvaeron), Mr. Walcott gives us a good old-fashioned "Gothic" tale, with secret door, mysterious staircase, damp, dark passage, etc., etc., even to the coincidence which brings the final disaster just at the right moment to catch the characters in the story. Mr. Jackson...
...David A. Wells Prize was founded by the distinguished economist, whose name it bears; and the fund which he established provides not only for the payment of this prize (the largest pecuniary prize offered in the University), but also for the publication of the essay. The prize is offered for the best thesis embodying the results of original investigation, upon some subject in the field of economics...