Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...great Polar Sea Expedition, and the Messrs. Harper and Brothers accord him a similar rank to Thomas Nast in his department of art. When foreign celebrities are to be taken, Mr. Pach is usually called upon, even by other photographers, at least to secure the negatives, - an unmistakable compliment to his skill...
...Advocate says that I failed to understand its editorial because my intelligence has "little in common with our [its] own." The compliment is obvious, and is the more pleasing because evidently unintended. My mistake was a natural one, for I supposed that an editorial criticism, however severe, upon a popular instructor would hardly be given a form more direct than that of a "suggestion," and would be expressed in civil terms; and I also supposed that severity in any editorial was not considered identical with ungentlemanly insinuations and abuse. Since I have been shown the error of my second supposition...
...Thanks; you pay the Freshmen a great compliment. Meanwhile, may we not improve the music...
THAT was a neat compliment the last Advocate paid the Crimson...
...treatise by copious citations from the works of others, - in a large part, rumor says, the theses and other exercises in composition of Harvard students; but not wholly so, for he is obviously a watchful reader of all best literature, and has read pencil in hand." Besides the compliment to our literary productions, what a vivid picture those last lines bring before...