Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...therefore, a compliment of no mean nature to be asked to lend support to fellow students in a far country, even though under the circumstances, that support must needs be moral rather than physical...
...expositions may be of the highest order of excellence in having the music presented by artists of high rank. Mr. Whiting, also, gives us of his very best, and his preliminary talks are always most suggestive and illuminating. The project has had paid to it that sincerest form of compliment, namely, imitation and adoption by a number of the other leading universities, such as Yale, Princeton, etc., so that, as Mr. Whiting facetiously puts it, he now occupies a "rolling chair of music...
...time when everyone is doing his best for the common weal, the women of the land have stood out preeminently for the spirit they have shown, and the results they have accomplished. Their success, then, should be regarded not as a political victory, but as a delicate compliment to the success of their work occasioned directly or indirectly...
...would be an incomplete compliment to call the Illustrated's photographers Arguses. They have more than the giant's quota of one hundred eyes when it is incumbent on them to take a photograph. They have a nice journalistic sense in picking out the meat of the thing to be photographed; they see everything and see it discriminately. Thus do the pictures in "Harvard's most progressive paper" become timely...
...prefer life and the "pursuit of happiness" to the "dictates of humanity" and national honor. What one of you is there to whom the honor of your women is less dear than their lives? And yet you would give a veiled compliment to their sex by calling your country "she". What one of you is there who dares deny the open insult of Germany's defiance? What pacifist would have saved his own life on the Lusitania, to let a child and mother drown? And yet you say "life before honor...