Word: compliments
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...last night, was optimistic about the promising future of the younger generation now acquiring a college training to fit it for the coming acquisition of power in the world, and President Angel struck the same keynote in concluding his speech. Both presidents paid to the undergraduate of today a compliment which he is little accustomed to receiving, and which is cause for much gratification...
...Adams (John Quincy) characterized the conferring of this degree as 'a sycophantic compliment' ", writes one of the later Jackson biographers, "and spitefully and most unjustly wrote in his diary. 'As myself, an affectionate child of our Alma Mater, I would not be present to witness her diagrace in conferring her highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammer and hardly could spell his own name...
...rare pleasure for the writer to find himself in accord with a CRIMSON editorial. But the careful comment in this morning's CRIMSON deals so well with an unpleasant subject that any further comment must be in the nature of compliment and complement...
Always on the lookout for some compliment to TIME which I can show my friends, I have looked in vain for the above-mentioned to appear in your "one and only" newsmagazine...
...seldom that an Englishman even a naturalized Englishman, deigns to compliment Americans, especially on intellectual matters, that Michael Arlen's announcement to the effect that Americans are more avid readers than the English is almost in the nature of a departure from national policy. The novelist goes further and implies that the American reading public mingles with its intellectualism an element of philanthropy, in that its cultural activities serve to prevent the death from malnutrition of many British litterateurs...