Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...given next Monday afternoon in the New Lecture Hall at 4.15 o'clock are at the phenomenally low rate of twenty-five and fifty cents, for the simple reason that Mr. Pauer is glad to have the honor of playing specially to Harvard students and wishes to pay this compliment to the active musical life in our midst. Harvard is now so universally recognized as an important musical centre that many distinguished visiting artists are willing to play and to sing for us at merely nominal rates provided that they meet with an enthusiastic response on the part...
...Faculty of Harvard University has paid Woodrow Wilson a distinguished compliment. It has placed his "Congressional Government" on the list of obligatory reading in its governmental course, and it is now being studied by 400 students. But how does that body know that the views of the president-elect are the same now as they were when he wrote that work? The book appeared so long ago that it had been forgotten by most of those who were familiar with his writings. It was written in 1884, when he was 28 years old, was the first of his books...
...production in general was careless and inadequate, yet the play "scored." There were nine curtain calls after the third act, seven after the fourth: this the sincerer compliment to Mr. Biggers. The action needs quickening in a few places and the dialogue, compression; on the whole both would be creditable work at the hands of a playwright of long experience. There is, throughout, the "Biggers touch" which we have come to know in many delightful stories, deft character drawing, a humor that is original, refreshingly American...
...steady cloud of dust and filth that rises from the pavement of that street, and from the now unmentionable bridge. The Athletic Association certainly owes the civic powers a considerable debt for police protection and supervision on the field; it is only a fair suggestion that it return the compliment by a nominal daily investment in the effective use of an oil-cart on the street near the field. Or, if it is not within the province of the Association to provide some remedy from its own funds, it certainly is its duty to see that this conspicuous emblem...
...offered through successive seasons, "He Came From Milwaukee" still possesses a remarkable air of freshness and snap. That this is due rather to the contagious good humor of Mr. Bernard himself than to the accomplishments of his supporting company or a not too bright book and score is a compliment to his ability all the more sincere. In the present case, Mr. Bernard is the particular light and very justly...