Word: encomium
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Herrick concludes his letter with an encomium on Harvard captains, deploring the fact that their powers may be usurped by professional coaches. Unstinted praise is due all Harvard captains (and to Mr. Herrick as one of the best of them all) whose splendid deeds are immortal in the history of the University...
...seem in the seventeenth century, and of University Hall as an eighteenth-century dining-room, though it was not built till early in the nineteenth century. And did Daniel Webster over say, as Mr. Mansfield--no doubt quite unintentionally--would lead you to think: "I shall enter on no encomium upon Harvard"? But with only one or two exceptions besides these just noted, this number of the Advocate is correct in both fact and expression. One thing, then, the present board of editors have accomplished. They have trained their writers so that when, they go out into the world...
...hold no brief for Colonel Roosevelt, and he needs no encomium from my pen. The American people upon various occasions have passed judgment upon his work in no uncertain way. No living American is held in such honor and affection as he. Furthermore, no Harvard man, whatever is his attitude politically toward Mr. Roosevelt and the policies he so ably advocates, can be unaware of the lustre he has brought upon his Alma Mater. His brilliant achievements, his versatile scholarship, his distinguished and undeniable service to his country, reflect no small honor upon the College where he received his training...