Word: compliment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Below is quoted an extract from a recent number of the Law Quarterly Review, the leading English Law Review. It contains a compliment to the Harvard Law Review and also to two of our professors, which surely deserves publicity in Cambridge...
...very pleasing compliment which the Harvard Law Review has received from the English Law Review in reference to the able article by Professor J. B. Thayer. The Harvard Law Review was only started in 1887, but it sprang at once to a considerable position and has steadily increased in importance, until now it has a large circulation and its articles receive much favorable comment. But it is especially gratifying to find that its numbers should have spread so far as England and that it should receive such complimentary notice from a paper of so high standing as the English...
Professor J. K. Paine has been engaged to write the instrumental music for the Dedicatory Exercises at the opening of the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. This recognition of Prof. Paine's genius and ability is not only a great compliment to him but is a matter of congratulation to the whole college. The music is to be played by an orchestra of a hundred and fifty pieces under the leadership of Mr. Thomas...
...selected as the best and most representative compositions of the different English courses for which they were written. And when we confess that these compositions are far ahead of the work of most of us in originality of thought and finish of workmanship, we pay our collegiate sisters a compliment of the highest order...
...report of the Foxcroft Club is a compliment to the managers. It shows that good, substantial board can be got in Cambridge at very reasonable prices, and that hereafter no one need be kept away from Harvard on account of the high price of food. The new method by which the club will be carried on is a matter of moment. It will be noticed that the college authorities have seen best to withdraw from the direct management of the club, now that it is so well started, and that hereafter the students will have it in their own hands...