Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most to raise the academic standards of Harvard to their present high national and international rank. While his crowning honor came with the Noble prize for special achievement in chemistry in 1914, he had previously, in 1901, received a flattering invitation from the Prussian government which indirectly was a compliment to Harvard and the scientific advances of American universities in general. In declining the offer then made him of a full professorship of inorganic chemistry at the University of Gottingen, Professor Richards revealed an appreciation of and a loyalty to Harvard which, as Dean Hanford points out, he has always...
...They are surprisingly critical-they may not know much about art but they know what they like." No irony, no derision, rather a compliment to his symphony audience was this paradoxical platitude, uttered patly last week by Ernest Henry Schelling, conductor the past season of the children's concerts of the Philharmonic Society. For months New York children had been watching & listening to tall Mr. Schelling explain familiarly the stories back of the music which his orchestra played for their edification. After each program they were asked to write down comments, such as children can make, in notebooks kept...
...indifference about which you speak in your editorial is a compliment to our undergraduate intelligence. How ludicrous all this agitation about the stadium! Was it not sufficient that the omnipotent athletic publicists were able to get so much printed about the matter without having tried to bring it to the forum and working up a factitious interest in it? It was carefully stated that the "parliamentary rather than formal manner of debate" would be used. Figs! You might as well talk about draping the stage of the Odeon with meshed gold and silver and then put on a puppet show...
...makes the front page of your magazine certainly deserves the compliment of being consistent...
Throughout the week Amir Amanullah pursued a strenuous routine. At his request all banquet speeches were cut to bare minimums of compliment. Thus time was gained in which His Majesty visited numerous industrial plants and later the great Tempelhofer flying field. There he was presented with a 10-passenger 3-motored plane worth some $60,000. Doubtless the makers hope for future cash orders from Afghanistan, but last week "The Light of the World" did not so much as take a trial sweep in his expensive toy. What seemed to interest His Majesty most was a military review, during which...