Word: suffixes
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...offer more than 2GB of storage space—and interfaces that are more user-friendly than usual university Webmail systems. Harvard students with FAS e-mail accounts are currently allotted 40MB of inbox space. The e-mail addresses, which would continue beyond graduation, would still bear the .edu suffix as well as the university’s domain name, both companies say. In the Ivy League, the University of Pennsylvania has been in talks with the two companies since last spring and will be selecting a vendor shortly, according to Penn’s executive director of Computing...
...collaboration with so many scholars, in so many fields, touching so many students and influencing the world well beyond the academy exemplifies what’s best in the leadership and scholarship of a modern university.”At Fletcher’s request, Harvard removed the suffix “Jr.” a few years ago in order to honor Fletcher’s father, who along with his mother, sent their three sons to the University.Gates serves as chairman of the selection committee of the Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship Program, which is administratively supported...
...return to the Viking tradition of patronymics. Instead of maintaining a single last name across generations, each generation of children, in this system, is given a last name that consists simply of the father?s (or in these gender-egalitarian times, the mother?s) first name with the suffix ?son? or ?datter? (daughter) added...
...legislation to take effect next year that, among other things, allows parents to give their offspring a patronymic rather than a family surname. The only change from the days of horned hats and pillage is that parents can also choose to use the mother?s first name with the suffix ?son? or ?datter...
Back in Cambridge, they took John Harvard’s and Pizzeria Uno by storm, happy not because they were seeing and being seen, but because they were enjoying themselves and whatever sporting event was being broadcast. They loved teasing each other—they loved to add the suffix “boy” to any insult—“What are you, Chemistry-final boy?” “Oh, so you’re sit-at-home-and-watch-American-Idol boy tonight...