Word: complimenting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...place, we object to the compromise because it sets before the student, as his motive of action, a temporary advantage. Rewards of merit will do well enough in primary schools, where the children cannot be expected to understand and appreciate the ultimate object of study; but it is no compliment, to say the least, to try to influence those who are men before the law by praise and bonbons...
...proven false, is regarded false until proven true. This seems manifestly an unfair, not to say discourteous, method of treating him. Why should one man's testimony in this case counterbalance that of two or three others. The assumption that a student will lie is paying him a poor compliment as a gentleman, and to affirm that a graduate is incapable of it or of mistakes is to impute to the "sheep-skin" greater virtues than we had hitherto supposed it to have possessed...