Arizona State University's Division I athletic teams are called the Sun Devils, which is also the nickname used to refer to students and alumni of the university.

The nickname " The Big Green ," originating in the 1860s, is based on students ' adoption of a shade of forest green (" Dartmouth Green ") as the school's official color in 1866.

Because so many of UNB's students, alumni, and professors have produced celebrated poetry, the city of Fredericton has earned the nickname " Poets ' Corner.

In 1918, Strunk privately published The Elements of Style for the use of his Cornell students, who gave it its nickname, " the little book.

Year 13 secondary school leavers often purchase special leavers jerseys in the school color which include the students name and a significant number or nickname.

Mr. Chipping conquers his inability to connect with his students, as well as his initial shyness, when he marries Katherine, a young woman whom he meets on holiday and who quickly picks up on calling him by his nickname, " Chips ".

The name Montparnasse stems from the nickname " Mount Parnassus " ( In Greek mythology, home to the nine Greek goddesses – the Muses – of the arts and sciences ) given to the hilly neighbourhood in the 17th century by students who came there to recite poetry.

Though not used in official communication, the nickname " Illinois Tech " has long been a favorite of students, inspiring the name of the student newspaper ; ( renamed in 1928 from Armour Tech News to TechNews ), and the former mascot of the university's collegiate sports teams, the Techawks.

There was debate as to whether the name was being run into the ground, but the students quickly said they wanted the Rattler nickname.

*" E-Town " is a nickname used often by Evanston's youth populace, and is especially common among students and even faculty at Evanston Twp.

The University Section got its nickname from the section's main purpose in the 1980s and 1990s and was a discount section offered to university students in Saskatchewan.

In 1937 Lin married one of the students there, a girl named Liu Ximin, who had earned the nickname " University Flower ".

* Creighton Bluejays, nickname for students, faculty, and alumni of Creighton University and its sports teams

Many schools have a lengthy official name ( often beginning with école nationale supérieure or école supérieure ), a shortened name, an acronym and often a nickname for both the schools and their students.

" Fortunately for Tate and his wife, Lowell soon settled into the so-called " writer's house " ( a dorm that received its nickname after it had accrued a number of ambitious young writers ) with fellow students Peter Taylor, Robie Macauley and Randall Jarrell .< ref > McAlexander, Hugh, " Peter Taylor: The Undergraduate Years at Kenyon ," The Kenyon Review, New Series, Vol.

The University Section got its nickname from the section's main purpose in the 1980s and 1990s and was a discount section offered to university students in Saskatchewan.

Whilst there, Chan earned the nickname " Double Boy " from the other students, because he would often have to endure twice the training as the other students, but had twice the spirit.

Today, issues facing UND include a move of its entire athletic program to Division I, ongoing discussions regarding the Fighting Sioux nickname, the fact that UND is located in a state with a shrinking population of potential students, and efforts to increase external contributions and funding.

They are based on the design of a sport jersey ( usually Rugby ), feature school colours, the year the students graduate, and a personalised nickname.

In recent years, the Hoos nickname has become a nickname used by students and recent alumni of the University, and it is also commonly used in the media in reference to U. Va.

) ( Dartmouth students, meanwhile, largely stopped using the Indian yell during the 1980s along with the accompanying Indian mascots, symbols, and nickname.

The Tiger nickname continued on with students and alumni, eventually being adopted as the official nickname for the University of Memphis in 1939.

Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

Graceful as his fencing and dancing lessons had taught him to be in addition to the natural grace of his slight, wiry frame, he cut enough of a figure to have evoked a nickname in the college, to which he himself referred in Prolusion 6::

He had a humble background, and appears to have earned a living as a porter at the docks of Alexandria, hence his nickname of " Sack-bearer " ( Sakkas for sakkophoros ).

) For seven seasons, the AL team wore dark blue stockings and had no official nickname.

This nickname was commonly used during that season, perhaps because the team had a new manager and several rookie players.

For 1908, the National League club returned to wearing red trim, but the American League team finally had an official nickname, and would remain the " Red Sox " for good.

Comiskey moved his St. Paul club to the Near South Side and renamed it the White Stockings, grabbing a nickname that had once been used by the Chicago Cubs.

As a result, Chicago's club nickname transitioned, and by 1890 they had become known as the Chicago Colts, or sometimes " Anson's Colts ," referring to Cap's influence within the club.

This style of drive had the popular nickname " Toaster Drive ", because it required the use of a knife or other thin object to pry out the stuck media just like a piece of toast stuck in a real toaster ( though this is inadvisable with real toasters ).

" Cy Young's nickname came from the fences that he had destroyed using his fastball.

This corner is reportedly named after a local character who had earned the nickname of Tarzan and only wanted to give up his vegetable garden in the dunes if the track's designers named a nearby corner after him.

Unless Jarma is a nickname for Axum ( hypothetically from Ge ' ez girma, " remarkable, revered "), the capital had moved from Axum to a new site, yet undiscovered.

It took several months after its publication for the poem to make Thayer famous, since he was hardly the boastful type and had signed the June 24 poem with the nickname " Phin " which he had used since his time on the Lampoon.

It recalled the nickname he had acquired in the Australian outback: " Hail Columbia " Hoover.

Dunn, by contrast, concluded that Indiana settlers adopted the word as a humorous nickname, and that the negative connotation had already faded when John Finley wrote his poem.

While attempts to implement a similar system had been made before and other networks have since developed registration services of their own, at the time DALnet's successful decision to allow and enforce nickname and channel registration was considered to be unique and even controversial, as it went against established practice.

Portrait by Friedrich Engels. Johann Kaspar Schmidt ( October 25, 1806 – June 26, 1856 ), better known as Max Stirner ( the nom de plume he adopted from a schoolyard nickname he had acquired as a child because of his high brow, in German ' Stirn '), was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary fathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism.

Still many, however, continue to find the legends more memorable than the history, seeing her as a traitor, as may be assumed from a legend that she had a twin sister who went North and the pejorative nickname La Chingada associated with her twin.

During their dynasty years in the 1970s, the A's had dozens of uniform combinations with jerseys and pants in all three team colors, and in fact did not wear the traditional gray on the road, instead wearing green or gold, which helped to contribute to their nickname of " The Swingin ' A's.

Allegedly, he chose the " Peter " to honor a young girl whom he remembered as an unrequited love ( it had been her nickname ).

His accurate political sense failed him only once, when he found himself in 1948 on the wrong side of a failed coup attempt and had to be driven to the Brazilian embassy in the trunk of a car, earning him the nickname " Colonel Trunk ".

The 60 and 66 MHz 0. 8 µm versions of the P5 Pentium processors also had ( for the time ) high heat production due to their 5V operation, and were often known colloquially as " coffee warmers " or some similar nickname.

* Rob Roy, the nickname of John MacGregor ( sportsman ), who also had a boat named Rob Roy