Word: compliment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the prospects of the Union for the next year were better than ever before; for the reason that the class of '84, upon whom the brunt of the work would then fall, had come forward with more readiness than any previous class. We congratulate the sophomores upon this compliment, and the Union upon its promise of growing usefulness for the university. But it is also time that the freshmen should begin to manifest some interest in the work, if this success is to be maintained undiminished. As yet they have not done so. But '85 is a modest class...
...Nation pays the following high compliment to a Harvard professor: "Prof. Paine has written a considerable number of works for the concert stage, among them an oratorio, a mass, two symphonies and a concert overture; but none of these, in our opinion, equal in originality of conception and scholarly treatment his music to Sophocles' tragedy, which to our taste is the most finished specimen of musical workmanship produced in this country. . . Prof. Paine's music is his own. It has individuality of style, and his themes impress themselves on the memory at once, and gain a beauty by repeated hearing...
...Bunthornes and Grosvenors poets freshly and idyllic who might have walked directly from the stage of "Patience." At every step they posed in the most approved mediaeval and antediluvian fashion. The audience rose in a body and, standing upon the seats, roared and applauded. The students acknowledged the compliment, and marched to the three front rows of seats, with the greatest delibration
While we cannot but admire the Greek Play as it is produced at the Globe Theatre by professional actors, and fully appreciate the compliment paid to our college by its reproduction in this manner, we feel obliged to comment on the good or bad taste displayed in its presentation in two languages...
...Lasell Leaves is as fresh and girlish as ever (we mean this as a compliment), and is really a treat after wading through the Oberlin Review with its six-page criticisms on "Self-Culture," and its other discouraging articles. "Romance of the Rose,' though not a new idea, is very prettily written. "The Big Creamy Bowl" and "Grand Reception" smack a little of boarding school...