Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fair target but there are certainly occasions, which Dr. Fitch neglects, on which anything but solid, sturdy. Anglo-Saxon profanity would be inappropriate and since these occasions are by no means rare in college days, proficiency in the art should be a point of pride. It is a poor compliment to the college man that his best awarding should be likened to the rude, uneducated and really embryonic curses of the pirate...
Merely winning championships, of course, is not the only function of the lacrosse team. Lacrosse offers perhaps one of the best kinds of exercise--and the small squads now in vogue only partially put to use the available facilities. It will be a poor compliment to Mr. Harry Berbert who begins his first season today as the University Coach, after exceptional success at Syracuse, if this year's turn-out be no larger than the usual one. After all, lacrosse at Harvard is firmly enough planted in tradition to satisfy the most meticulous. The first college lacrosse contest in America...
Tonight the Engineers, fortified by the confidence gained by a successful season and materially aided by the fact that they are, playing on their home court, firmly expect to return the compliment. If Sharpe, a diminutive forward with an amazing knack of shooting from any position, and Parsons, a guard far better than the average, repeat their Cambridge performances, they will give the University five some bad moments...
...will refresh the brow-beaten American to hear that no less then London music critic has openly and guilelessly praised an American institution. And it is a nice compliment to the University, or more properly to Dr. Davison, that the Harvard Glee Club is the object of this commendation...
...susceptible to the appeal of good music, which might never have been suspected in former days, and moreover that the public can be taught to discriminate, and to appreciate,--which is equally important. However, the extraordinary success which the Glee Club has enjoyed in America does not make this compliment from abroad less gratifying; the favorable comment of the Times will enhance the enviable reputation which the Glee Club won for itself on its European trip of three years...