Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reading by Mr. Hayes tonight will attract many members of the University. It has been a high compliment to the popularity of these readings that the attendance has made it necessary to give them in Sanders Theatre...
...members of the Harvard and Yale football teams, together with many alumni of both universities, were entertained by several Yale graduates, Saturday night, in New York. The dinner was given as a compliment to Mr. Henry L. Higginson, who entertained the Harvard and Yale teams last year. It proved to be such an enjoyable affair that an effort will be made to establish the custom of holding annual dinners...
...within the pale of the University two colleges, Harvard College and Radcliffe College; here we have a suggestion of Oxford and Cambridge which will touch the pride of those students who look with admiration on the great English universities. This action of the overseers is a direct compliment to the cause of the higher education of women and a direct compliment also to this particular institution. A formal acknowledgement from Harvard University of the value and importance of the work of the Harvard Annex must mean everything to the Annex; it must contribute to its success in many ways...
Pennsylvania opened up with a wedge and then tried her flying interference, but it was of no avail and Brooke had to kick. Brewer returned the compliment but Brooke sent the leather back again...
...necessary it may be. But in many courses, especially in those large and popular ones this custom is more or less marked and it is growing pernicious. Last Saturday's performance was doubtless unnecessary on the part of so many and it was hardly a compliment, albeit it was borne in silence, to the instructor...