Word: tone
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale Courant is about as near our ideal of a college paper as any publication we know of. Often entertaining, never dull, full of articles which we can all read with pleasure, - articles full of life, - its locals pithy, its criticisms just, its whole tone manly, the Courant does honor to its editors and to the institution from which it comes." - Princetonian...
...rash and inconsiderate Argus, having ventured a "churlish criticism" of the Beacon, has been completely annihilated in half a column of simile, seriousness, and sarcasm. We, therefore, profiting by such an example, simply offer our congratulations to the Beacon for its peculiarly elevated style and tone. May we suggest, however, that it is not universally acknowledged that the line "Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow," is by Shakespeare. Some persons contend that it is the first line of a lost work, "The Traveller," by an obscure poet named Goldsmith. We are in perfect sympathy with the Beacon, and only doubt whether...
...Princetonian has completed its first volume, and a new board of editors has been installed. From the first, the Princetonian has been among the very best college papers. Confining itself strictly to subjects taken from college life, the paper has been bright, newsy, and, in tone, manly. There has been a tendency to assume a complete knowledge, on the part of the readers, of the matters discussed in the editorial columns, and the result is, that after reading a long editorial, one has not the faintest idea what is the subject under discussion. As cases in point we note...
...great if not greater than that accorded in any other institution of learning in this country or in England. For this the Faculty have deserved, and have received, the appreciation of students. The childish habits of hazing and rushing have been entirely dispensed with, and the general improvement in tone among members of the College has been everywhere apparent. There are some respects, however, in which we are still behindhand, and occurrences occasionally take place which border upon the puerile amusements generally confined to the smaller colleges. Society initiations of a rough character originated among the boys of sixteen...
...aforesaid examining committee shows that this is not true of Greek alone, but of all purely literary studies, English not excepted. This is due partly to the great scientific advances made during the last few years, and partly, as some of us think, to certain defects in the general tone and administration of the college...