Word: tone
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...forgiving tone...
...year will have calculated with marvellous closeness. The plan, in fact, is to have our last year made up of "all work and no play." Complaints come to us already that the conclusion of the nursery proverb will be fulfilled in our case. The University will lose that social tone for which it has so long been justly famous. Life here will lack the brilliancy that has distinguished it in times gone by, and will degenerate into one "demmed horrid grind." We confess that the aspect of the picture seems to us threatening in the extreme. But let us struggle...
...notice referred to by our correspondent was one of several which the Senior class have received this year from their photographer. The tone which he has assumed in these communications has seemed to many persons not the proper one, considering the relation between himself and the persons he addressed. The note we printed was not, perhaps, as offensive as some of its predecessors...
...harlequin in the play, and startle us when we least expect them. A prize offered here for the best poem by an undergraduate, or a graduate of one or two years' standing, might not cause a refulgent light to burst upon us immediately; but, possibly, it might serve to tone down the uncivilized "Hoosiers" who are expected to throng our halls when entrance examinations are held in Cincinnati...
...infer from the tone of an article in the Virginia University Magazine, that the writer has been reading Parton's Aaron Burr. He says, "What Burr actually was is simply told when we pronounce him to be the most unlucky man that ever lived...