Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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With the best wishes for your coming celebration, and hoping that Dr. McCosh will do Princeton honor in presenting the compliment of a younger sister to "Fair Harvard...
...least known, but one of the most valuable of all of our professors. He probably is the greatest expert in the country on reptiles and is constantly in the receipt of specimens from the fish commission for somerclature and analysis. Several new species bear his name - a great compliment in scientific circles. In the room adjoining his own he showed us thousands of jars of preserved reptiles and fishes from which he had to select the best specimens, and condemn the useless ones. Some thousands of innocent snakes and fish have been immured here for years, immolated to the cause...
...very noticeable that the Yale News is at present pursuing the policy - which is the policy of their athletic organization - of using undue persuasion in the shape of lavish compliment, offers of high advancement, donations of old shells and so forth, to make proselytes for their athletic teams among the various schools. It is a very well known fact that the St. Paul's club and other clubs at Yale are deliberately formed for this purpose, and that graduates of the different schools are sent to make converts of the most valuable athletes left in them. Now, although Yale...
...justice of the compliment paid by judge Holmes in his recent lecture to Professor Langdell, the Dean of the Law School, is shown by the following significant fact brought to our attention by the last Nation. Mr. Gerard B. Finch, the new law lecturer at Cambridge, England, has adopted Prof. Langdell's method of lecturing by cases. In his inaugural address he spoke in hearty terms of this method, and of the general excellence of the Harvard Law School. A short extract from this address will be of interest to our readers...
...soothing to note that few take the trouble to expose the fictitious corruption of our smaller, and less famed colleges. The public neither knows nor cares about these humbler institutions. So, on the whole, it is best to take any newspaper slander as a delicately concealed compliment to our importance. If the New York World tells entertaining fibs about Yale, it is merely the New York World's way of saying that Yale is powerful and renowned, and that people wish to know all they can about her. Harvard too has often been flattered in this manner. She and Yale...