Word: compliment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...only as a fitting compliment to Scull, but for the greater satisfaction of his successor, the Senior class meeting this evening should be well attended. Whatever the duties and attractions of enlistment no undergraduate can leave this University without more than one vague regret, and the knowledge that he was missed not only by his intimates but by the class at large for the position he held among them, could never fail to be a source of satisfaction to a man who left before the conclusion of one term of service to take up another and more serious...
...Minnie Ashley, late of the De Wolf Hopper Company, May Donahue, William Norris, Eddie Garvey, Lawrence kearney and Lon Brine. All of these principals and others as well will doubtless receive a very cordial and enthusiastic reception from the Harvard men on next Tuesday evening. Harvard night, when, in compliment to Mr. Emerson Cook, Harvard '93, the college colors will wave triumphant at the Museum. A special rate is accorded for Harvard night on presentation of the Harvard Co-operative card at Thurston...
...several reasons it seems necessary for members of the University to make a gift of colors to the United States ship which has been given the name of Harvard. In the first place, it is a compliment for Harvard to be thus recognized by the Government, which calls for appreciation from the students. That the Government has taken this step, is a proof of the standing Harvard always has had and please God always will have, in every branch of the public service...
...second place, a failure on the part of the University to return the compliment by a gift such as the one proposed, will incur criticism in no small degree. Lastly, it seems necessary to call a meeting and raise money for the colors, simply because so many men appreciate the strength of the reasons already given...
...Latin. In the autumn of 1847 he went to Germany to study Philogy, and he worked there steadily four years at different universities, chiefly at Gottingen, where he took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1851. His doctor's dissertation, entitled "Smyrnaeorum Resgestae et Antiquitates," gained the rare compliment from one of his most distinguished teachers, Karl Friedrich Hermann of Gottingen, of being mentioned in his work on Greek Antiquities, in which these words still stand in the fifth edition: "Welche fleissige Arbeit alle sonstige Nachweisungen uber diese Stadt (Smyrna) unnothig macht." Another distinguished professor at Gottingen, Schneidenin...