Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CRIMSON seems to have been a salutary one and we are glad to be joined in the field of daily college journalism by two such estimable companions. We are pleased, too, to notice that the Ocrnell Era has donned the garb of a Harvard publication. It is a delicate compliment to old Mother Advocate, and may help, when it is known, to still the croaking of some chronic grumbler about the college papers here in Cambridge...
...twenty-third annual dinner of the Harvard Club of New York city, held on the evening of February 21, a neat compliment was paid to Hon. Jas. Russell Lowell. The dinner occurred on the eve of Mr. Lowell's seventieth birthday, and during the evening. Mr. Francis O. French, '55, read some impromptu verses in commemoration of this event. The verses were greeted with a great deal of applause, and were followed by the drinking of Mr. Lowell's health to the enthusiastic accompaniment of the Harvard cheer. The verses have never before appeared in print, but feeling that every...
...every possible manner until the train left New Haven. There was not the least sign of ill feeling between the members of the two colleges, and the Yale men gave forth a prolonged "Harvard" at the end of their quick, short cheer, while the Harvard men returned the compliment over and over again...
...decided (for base-ball has at least one great advantage over cricket, it very seldom ends in a draw), the English cricketers were asked their opinion of the play, and were obliged to admit that so far as they could judge the batting seemed very weak. "That is a compliment at any rate to the pitchers," they were told. "But to say the truth," one of them replied, "the bowling - or what you call 'pitching' - seemed weak too. Every ball was full pitched, and any one can hit a full-pitched ball; yet your fellows often missed them." A smile...
...seniors have decided to give their crew a complimentary dinner. The '87 eight have served their class with distinction, winning twice in the class races, and they well deserve the compliment their classmates propose paying them. We are confident that the men will need no urging to fulfil this agreeable duty...