Word: tone
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...writer's obfuscation on the subject of Persian poetry that is so inexcusable and reprehensible; but rather the presumptuous and discourteous tone of the whole article, especially the opening sentences...
...supporters of foot-ball were not a little surprised and disconcerted at the tone of an article which appeared in last week's Advocate, urging strongly the banishment of their favorite sport from the spring season. That such advice has been given just at this time (without considering for the moment whether it should be followed out next year) is likely to prove most hurtful to the success of the two matches for which our team is pledged this spring. The difficulty of obtaining money-subscriptions in aid of athletics this year is understood by all; and if the lukewarm...
Gone its tender tone...
...feel it my duty to protest against the assumption of such a tone by our instructors. I grieve to say that there exists among the students a class of people who have devoted their lives to the development of their bodies and to the gratification of their more or less depraved tastes, and who have unpardonably neglected the intellect, - the only means we have of attaining truth. These people, glorying in their self-made ignorance, blindly refuse to recognize the great principles upon which our constitution is founded. Their appearance, their manners, their actions, and even their conversation, combine...
...tone of the Courant, too, is far more pacific than usual. A correspondent of this paper is much shocked because the "President's Sunday-evening prayer-meetings" are poorly attended. It seems that Dr. Porter recently invited some "prominent gentlemen" to address an audience of "cultivated young Christian gentlemen." When the time came, only thirty-six cultivated young Christian gentlemen appeared, and to cap the climax they sang out of tune, - to the great disgust of the "prominent gentlemen." The correspondent of the Courant expresses a wish that "prominent men" - which seems to mean students as distinguished from gentlemen - would...