Word: naming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject of Anglomania has perhaps had quite enough prominence in our columns. We may, however, be pardoned for once more touching upon it ourselves. All the writers on Anglomania seem to agree on one point, namely, that they want a true patriotism among American students. But their ideas as to methods for securing this seem to differ widely. One faction would have us avoid all following after English ways; the other faction protests against such a "narrowing down of our models," and urges us to be Englishmen if we think Englishmen superior to Americans. This apparent contradiction is rather...
...name will long be held in memory by those whom he aided in obtaining an education. His sympathies were always with those who were struggling to attain a college degree, without sufficient means to accomplish their purpose, and he was ever ready to give any assistance in his power to such students. A fund of $20,000 was given by him to Phillips Academy for the purpose of founding scholarships for the support of the poorer students...
...name was widely known, and the universal respect in which he was held is shown by the expression of sorrow found in the daily press...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In a recent issue of the "CRIMSON" there was an unfavorable comment on the name chosen for the novel debating society at Johns Hopkins. It was held to be unpatriotic that the meeting of students was named and modeled after the English "House of Commons" rather than our own "House of Representatives." And, further, "the anglomaniac tendencies in American Universities" that have shown themselves "in peculiar dress and in strangely distorted pronunciation," were harshly condemned...
Thus one more name is added to the list of the benefactors of Harvard, the name of an Englishman whose love of truth finds expression in a desire for the whole world's enlightenment, a man whose liberality is as unbounded as his learning...