Word: compliment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have several times taken occasion to compliment the Shakspere Club upon its energy and activity. As the youngest organization at Harvard, it seems to be trying to catch up with the elders in the amount of good work done for the college. This morning we publish a notable list of lectures and readings which are to be delivered under the auspices of the club. We speak for the whole college, in thanking the club for all its efforts in providing entertainments...
When Miss Ricci sang for her last time in Philadelphia before coming to Boston, a lot of Princeton students, her devoted admirers, came up to see the opera, and the pretty prima donna returned the compliment by dressing in the college colors-yellow and black. -[Beacon...
...Dartmouth is enthusiastic on the subject of foot ball and closes its account of the Yale game with a graceful compliment, which may be of interest to those for whom it was intended : "The score was 113 to 0 in favor of Yale, but, if we were badly beaten, we had the pleasure of watching the playing of the best eleven in the country, or perhaps in the world...
...reported that a gentleman from the Freshman class has been elected an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa. This is an unusual compliment to one so young...
...author of "Geurndale" should appear in this short list for it contains only twelve names in all. Among the young Harvard graduates who are advancing in literature, Mr. Stimpson is a leader, and he is thus acknowledged as one of the first of living American story tellers, a great compliment for so young a man. Of the worth of the collection of stories, of which his is one, it is only necessary to say that the critic of a leading literary paper has characterized them as "a well-chosen series of the best short stories American literature affords...