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Northampton (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 54
LIV. Kerenhappuch. Nearly fifty young women received their degree of A. B. a few weeks since at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. The Boston Daily Advertiser, in mentioning this fact, makes a proper criticism on the trivial names often borne by the young ladies who appear oh the list. Unfortunately it goes too far in its form of statement, and with that hastiness which sometimes marks even masculine journalists, launches a boomerang that recoils upon the favored youth of its own pet institution, Harvard University. With just disdain it thus speaks of the young ladies: No doubt each had properly qualified herself for this distinction. But when one finds among the names of these graduates Nellies and Carries and Jennies, and even a Virgie and an Annie, it does not seem as if the grave letters A. B. will well become their owners. One does not see Georgies and Freddies in the list of those graduated at Harvard College. (The italics are my own.) Does not one see th
Bertie (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 54
Class, just graduated, he will find Harry occurring five times and Henry seven; Frank once and Francis four times; and his eyes will be regaled also with Fred and Bertie. In the Junior Class, to graduate next year, he will find only one Harry to nineteen who bear the name of Henry; but, on the other hand, he will find the brief naduate department Henry is to Harry as forty-eight to thirteen,while Frank is to Francis as twenty-three to nineteen; and there are four Freds, besides Harrie and Bertie. There are thus in these official Harvard lists nearly forty of these familiar nicknames, which are thought so preposterous at a woman's college. Of course they are not the same nicknames, because they belong to a different sex; but can it be maintained that Harrier and Bertie are essentially noble, heroic, masculine, while Georgie and Freddie are hopelessly feminine, and therefore weak? Whether the numerical proportion of pet names is greater at women's colleges is not to the purpose
Tom Moore (search for this): chapter 54
e quite enough to destroy all feminine monopoly. The whole discussion is therefore reduced to the question whether there is such a difference between the terminations y and ie as to make it a fine thing to be called Harry and a thing of degradation to be called Jennie. Now with every disposition to be conservative in this matter of terminations-to stand with the y's, if I may say so without suspicion of a pun — I must declare this to be simply a matter of usage. To old-fashioned people Tom Moore's song, Fly, fly from the world, O Bessy, with me, would lose half its charm if addressed to Bessie. In the same way, Kitty, a fair but frozen maid, would melt into insignificance if put into the new mould of Kittie; and what should we do with Dibdin's chorus — if Dibdin's it was- Anna, Anne, Nan, Nance, and Nancy, if we have to stretch the line far enough to bring in Annie and Nancie also? Yet, after all, what we call old-fashioned spelling in these cases is not really the ol
M. T. Cicero (search for this): chapter 54
hese graduates Nellies and Carries and Jennies, and even a Virgie and an Annie, it does not seem as if the grave letters A. B. will well become their owners. One does not see Georgies and Freddies in the list of those graduated at Harvard College. (The italics are my own.) Does not one see them, indeed, or their equivalents? Then it is because one has not looked, or because one has read the list only in the safe obscurity of a learned language, where all endearments disappear-although Cicero, to be sure, might have wished to see his beloved daughter appear on a college list as Tulliola instead of Tullia. But if any critic of women's nicknames will turn to his Harvard College catalogue in English, he will find there, in the official list of the sterner sex, precisely the same tendency towards the more familiar names as at women's colleges. In the Senior Class, just graduated, he will find Harry occurring five times and Henry seven; Frank once and Francis four times; and his eye
Nance (search for this): chapter 54
n this matter of terminations-to stand with the y's, if I may say so without suspicion of a pun — I must declare this to be simply a matter of usage. To old-fashioned people Tom Moore's song, Fly, fly from the world, O Bessy, with me, would lose half its charm if addressed to Bessie. In the same way, Kitty, a fair but frozen maid, would melt into insignificance if put into the new mould of Kittie; and what should we do with Dibdin's chorus — if Dibdin's it was- Anna, Anne, Nan, Nance, and Nancy, if we have to stretch the line far enough to bring in Annie and Nancie also? Yet, after all, what we call old-fashioned spelling in these cases is not really the oldest. In old English books we find the words now ending in y to end usually in ie-a form which we still preserve in their plurals-and may note in successive editions the gradual substitution, for instance, of philanthropy for philanthropie. Chaucer has flie for fly, and folie for folly. Y superseded ie by an unconsc
Geoffrey Chaucer (search for this): chapter 54
d we do with Dibdin's chorus — if Dibdin's it was- Anna, Anne, Nan, Nance, and Nancy, if we have to stretch the line far enough to bring in Annie and Nancie also? Yet, after all, what we call old-fashioned spelling in these cases is not really the oldest. In old English books we find the words now ending in y to end usually in ie-a form which we still preserve in their plurals-and may note in successive editions the gradual substitution, for instance, of philanthropy for philanthropie. Chaucer has flie for fly, and folie for folly. Y superseded ie by an unconscious tendency some two centuries ago; and now, in case of the familiar names of both sexes, this tendency is being unconsciously and very gradually reversed. It is only a few years since Sallie began to be substituted for Sally; Mollie has hardly yet achieved its position; and Nancy still holds out, though sure to yield to Nancie. Among men's names the influence is as inevitable, though more slowly exerted, Willie and C
Charles Dibdin (search for this): chapter 54
, Fly, fly from the world, O Bessy, with me, would lose half its charm if addressed to Bessie. In the same way, Kitty, a fair but frozen maid, would melt into insignificance if put into the new mould of Kittie; and what should we do with Dibdin's chorus — if Dibdin's it was- Anna, Anne, Nan, Nance, and Nancy, if we have to stretch the line far enough to bring in Annie and Nancie also? Yet, after all, what we call old-fashioned spelling in these cases is not really the oldest. In olDibdin's it was- Anna, Anne, Nan, Nance, and Nancy, if we have to stretch the line far enough to bring in Annie and Nancie also? Yet, after all, what we call old-fashioned spelling in these cases is not really the oldest. In old English books we find the words now ending in y to end usually in ie-a form which we still preserve in their plurals-and may note in successive editions the gradual substitution, for instance, of philanthropy for philanthropie. Chaucer has flie for fly, and folie for folly. Y superseded ie by an unconscious tendency some two centuries ago; and now, in case of the familiar names of both sexes, this tendency is being unconsciously and very gradually reversed. It is only a few years since Salli
Franks (search for this): chapter 54
list of the sterner sex, precisely the same tendency towards the more familiar names as at women's colleges. In the Senior Class, just graduated, he will find Harry occurring five times and Henry seven; Frank once and Francis four times; and his eyes will be regaled also with Fred and Bertie. In the Junior Class, to graduate next year, he will find only one Harry to nineteen who bear the name of Henry; but, on the other hand, he will find the brief name of Frank carrying all before it-ten Franks, while Francis occurs but four times. In the Sophomore Class it is almost precisely the same-Frank is to Francis as eight to three; while Henry occurs ten times, Harry three times, and Harrie once; there are also two Freds. In the Freshman Class Francis gets the upperhand of Frank at last, and is as seven to three; Henry occurs ten times, Harry three times, Fred once, and Dan once — the latter being probably the old Scriptural name, but possibly a colloquial abbreviation of Daniel. Among
Dan (search for this): chapter 54
o bear the name of Henry; but, on the other hand, he will find the brief name of Frank carrying all before it-ten Franks, while Francis occurs but four times. In the Sophomore Class it is almost precisely the same-Frank is to Francis as eight to three; while Henry occurs ten times, Harry three times, and Harrie once; there are also two Freds. In the Freshman Class Francis gets the upperhand of Frank at last, and is as seven to three; Henry occurs ten times, Harry three times, Fred once, and Dan once — the latter being probably the old Scriptural name, but possibly a colloquial abbreviation of Daniel. Among the special students Francis and Frank balance each other, one of each, while Henry is found twice and Harry once. To sum up: in the whole undergraduate department Henry is to Harry as forty-eight to thirteen,while Frank is to Francis as twenty-three to nineteen; and there are four Freds, besides Harrie and Bertie. There are thus in these official Harvard lists nearly forty of
English (search for this): chapter 54
of those graduated at Harvard College. (The italics are my own.) Does not one see them, indeed, or their equivalents? Then it is because one has not looked, or because one has read the list only in the safe obscurity of a learned language, where all endearments disappear-although Cicero, to be sure, might have wished to see his beloved daughter appear on a college list as Tulliola instead of Tullia. But if any critic of women's nicknames will turn to his Harvard College catalogue in English, he will find there, in the official list of the sterner sex, precisely the same tendency towards the more familiar names as at women's colleges. In the Senior Class, just graduated, he will find Harry occurring five times and Henry seven; Frank once and Francis four times; and his eyes will be regaled also with Fred and Bertie. In the Junior Class, to graduate next year, he will find only one Harry to nineteen who bear the name of Henry; but, on the other hand, he will find the brief nam
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