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yours?" "Jim." Yet not less significant than the
lack of a name was often the existence of one. Such
names as Pompey and Caesar. If you should run over
the list of names in the last catalogue of Clark Uni¬
versity, you would find there the name of a young
woman, Queen Victoria Price. The first part of this
name was doubtless given in derision, as Pompey and
Csesar were. It is a better name, however, a nobler,
brighter name, and the young lady who bears it is
lovely enough to be a queen. I don't believe that
that mother of princes, who is more a woman than a
queen, and a great queen because a greater woman—
I don't believe she would be ashamed to own her
dusky namesake, who, after all, is not so dusky. If
you should look over the same catalogue you would
see the name of a young man, King George Gay.
The first part of this name may be accounted for in
the same way as the one preceding it. If you should
look over the same catalogue you would find the
name of another young man, Major Willford. He
■came by the first part of his name in the same way as
mauy of us in the South come by our military titles.
It is very common down thereto address men as Col¬
onel, Captain, Major, etc., except in the case of col-
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