Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking, however, from first-hand observation, we have so far failed to observe him wandering hatless and abstracted about the Yard. It is all very well to call Harvard the "academic kingdom of heaven", and we are obliged for the compliment; but in academics, as in religion, individual interpretations of heaven differ. Our academic heaven is not of the smug, cloistered variety that escapes the noises of the workaday world by stopping its ears. We have seen too many recent examples of Harvard professors who are in the thick of the fight to be greatly disturbed when anyone accuses...
...With great difficulty he was restrained by a sagacious managing editor who felt that the general public should be allowed to indulge its imagination to the fullest possible extent without the hindrance of prosaic truth. Many have suggested that the loyal Painters' Union intended to pay a two handed compliment-to Yale by showing the very faint traces of Orange emerging from the Blue; to Harvard by an unmistakable registering of the score of November nineteenth. Unfortunately, the painters in their zeal have grossly misrepresented the Eli score; two precious points are missing-the numbers run only from...
...well justified in varying her flights on Pegasus with a canter on old hack Parody. From the fifth century before Christ when "The Battle of the Frogs and Mice" lamphoned Homer, the parody has been a recognized form of literary criticism. It is as Leigh Hunt said, a positive compliment in recognizing the popularity of the work. But more appropriate to the case in hand it is excellent training for the apprentice writer. He must study the form and thought of his quarry...
There are snobs at Harvard and snobs at Yale, Oberlin and Lealand Stanford. There are prigs everywhere. The young gentleman in my story--"That sort of Woman"--which you have apparently done me the compliment to read--"Payson Clifford, Jr."--was a Harvard prig, but in the end, all his underlying good qualities, you will have observed, came to the top and he proved to be a regular fellow after all. He is not generic but he is--isn't he?--not exactly uncommon. Let us be honest. "Harvard Indifference" is at once the virtue upon which we pride ourselves...
There are snobs at Harvard and snobs at Yale, Oberlin and Lealand Stanford. There are prigs everywhere. The young gentleman in my story--"That sort of Woman"--which you have apparently done me the compliment to read--"Payson Clifford, Jr."--was a Harvard prig, but in the end, all his underlying good qualities, you will have observed, came to the top and he proved to be a regular fellow after all. He is not generic but he is--isn't he?--not exactly uncommon. Let us be honest. "Harvard Indifference" is at once the virtue upon which we pride ourselves...