Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...into strange situations. On one occasion, when the streets of Cambridge were filled with crowds of votes, excited over a closely contested election, he was hit full in the face by a dead cat. The aggressor came forward and very civilly asked pardon, offering the explanation that the compliment had been intended for a Mr. Adeane. Macaulay good-naturedly accepted the apology, saying, "I only wish you had meant it for me, and hit Mr. Adeane...
Prof. Tittle, a prominent German naturalist, has paid the Agassiz Museum a great compliment in the following account, first published in Germany and translated for Science: "It is beyond question that the future development of geology and paleontology will be essentially influenced by America; but it seems to me, that, for zoology also, a model institution for the future, in many respects, has been created in the celebrated Agassiz museum in Cambridge, which probably will not be without influence on the development of museums of natural history in Europe. The genial founder of the 'Museum of comparative zoology...
...Lowell's candidacy for the Lord Rectorship of the University of St. Andrew's : "Every one will be pleased if the St. Andrew's men elect Mr. Lowell. The choice will be all literary, and not in the least political. The election of Mr. Lowell will be a graceful compliment to a distinguished scholar, humorist and University man, from a country which is always receiving English visitors with the warmest welcome. Mr. Lowell's charming gifts as a speaker cannot but be welcome in the holder of an office, where to make a speech is almost the only public duty...
...with mingled feelings of pleasure and regret that we hear of the possibility of Professor Dunbar resuming his old position at the head of the Advertiser newspaper. We cannot but feel pleased at the compliment which is offered to a member of our faculty and gratified that what may prove a loss to the university will be a gain for a much larger number. But we regret that our department of Political Economy, which is now assuming its proper position of importance should lose its head just when he is most needed. In addition to this, we must regret that...
...education in "promoting inter-collegiate friendship and in exhibiting the methods of instruction and government," at the various colleges. But he also recognizes the dangers to which the college journalist is exposed but considers that they can be avoided by taking proper precautions. But he pays them the highest compliment when, speaking of their moral influence, he says.-"The college paper is therefore, in respect to moral character, usually above than below the level of college sentiment, and its moral influence, therefore, is elevating...