Word: tone
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Next came in a gentleman who was worn nigh unto death by over-work. He was a Professor, and said: "Young man, your project is laudable. If you maintain a gentlemanly tone towards the authorities, and admit no carping criticism of our conduct, the whole Faculty will be glad to write for your paper. I present you with an article on 'The Need of Additional Endowment for our Professorships...
...welcome the Harvard Echo. The paper is just what it aims to be, - an interesting record of Harvard's daily life. Its tone is not literary, but we cannot expect literary excellence in a daily paper. We do expect good sense and good taste. The Echo will necessarily become the medium of much criticism upon the authorities of the University, and we respectfully recommend it to pay strict attention to the tone of such criticism. Statements to the effect that Harvard College is inculcating principles which will turn out "corrupt politicians, embezzlers, and forgers" are at least metaphorical...
IMMEDIATELY after the Yale-Princeton game, there appeared an editorial in the New York Tribune on the subject of football. The tone of the article was against football in general, which is considered by the writer to be a "rude, not to say brutal" sport. Then the writer goes on to complain of the large number of men engaged in the game, and suggests "that reform is necessary in the direction proposed by some of the colleges, which is to restore the number of contestants on either side to eleven." This is on the ground that there would be more...
...write to you because you can't think how fond I am of you, and because I always read you, although Sophie Basdazure (do you know Sophie?) says your general tone is much inferior to that of the Aggravate. Now, you old duck, I 've a little plan, and I want to tell you all about it. I see poor little things wandering about with lots of books under their arms and a very dazed and unhappy expression of countenance. They tell me they are called sub-Freshmen, - things just like Freshmen, only younger and smaller, and trying very hard...
...learn that there was much surprise felt in New Haven at the tone of the last Advocate in its criticism of the football match. The Yale students, it seems, had no idea that we could complain of our treatment there or could protest against the prize-fighting element of which they make a specialty. Of course, when a person does an ungentlemanly action, and then declares that he did not know it was ungentlemanly, while we pity his ill-breeding, it is useless for us to argue the point with him. And however unsatisfactory this may appear, it seems...