Word: tone
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Like joyous laughter's ringing tone...
...trusted. But if the attention is turned to the classes year by year, as they change their character with their names, it is manifest that in every class, since the Freshman year, the number of real students has been steadily increasing. Until lately, indeed, the improvement in the tone of the classes was far more than would have been suspected from the columns of the College paper, but within a year the articles that have been published would please the most solitary enthusiast for study. Few of these articles, however, are written by Seniors and Juniors; by far the larger...
Touching the subject, however, the tone of our English exchanges is too patronizing to be agreeable. After striking hard at the rowing of the "States" generally, taking away whatever credit Walter Brown may have deserved for whipping Sadler, and advising any other American representatives to stay at home, they tell us to keep on rowing, striving as heartily as we have done, and perhaps the next generation of Englishmen may meet us on the water as equals. At present it is deemed but idle for even a second-rate crew to measure oars with the best we can bring...
...College Chronicle has for a motto the sentiment esto cere perennius, which, for the sake of posterity, we trust relates to the institution of which it is the organ and not to the publication itself, unless the latter undergoes a speedy and thorough reform. Its tone is puerile and weak throughout, and is rendered doubly so by the enormous society-titles of "Cliosophic" and "Philorhetorian," to which it gives prominent positions in its columns...
...school thoroughly republican in custom and feeling, the only aristocracy being that of talent and good-fellowship, so that even when the sons of a gentleman and his coachman were school-fellows, the same respect was extended to both. Besides this, the school owes much of its high tone to its old traditions, ceremonies, buildings, and even dress,* all of which tend to impress a boy with the importance of his position and the necessity of keeping up the honor and dignity of the school. One of the most interesting of the old ceremonies is the public supper...