Word: tone
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...while this state of things is an advantage to Yale in aiding her to satisfy her ambition for conquest in the field, it is a great disadvantage to her in every other respect, for it lowers the general tone of the college and causes that marked contrast between the swaggering type which, in a way, represents Yale, and the more refined type which is conceded to Harvard. It creates a sentiment among her alumni which enables them to listen with proud and beaming countenances to a speech as rowdies in character as that celebrated speech of Peters of the Bones...
...Wendell's article on athletics in the current number of the Monthly seeks to prove that the faculty's position in regard to "professionalism" is a wrong one; and further, that betting tends to lower the tone of athletic sports...
...many of us by Mr. Wendell's article, and without fear of becoming prudish, we can join with him and say that our sports would be conducted more honorably if we could eradicate the betting factor. The "sporting element" here no doubt does our athletics and our moral tone serious evil and it is right that an outcry should be made against it. Men will make wagers until doomsday, it may be urged, but still when we appreciate that the custom is injuring our athletic career we are culpable if we do not frown upon it. For what consequence...
...here who are so absorbed in the old regime that they cannot even appreciate that changes are taking place, much less understand the significance of those changes. To those who are still in the dark as to our intents, we would say that we advocate an improvement in the tone of Harvard life which will wipe out the deference paid "to pink shirts and bull-pups...
...published in this paper since the beginning of the college year. More than anywhere else has the Advocate improved in its editorial columns. The editorials are written with much care and in very good taste, and are notable for the strength and vigor of their style and the uncompromising tone which they take against what the editorial staff recognize as evil in our college community. The comments on football well deserve careful consideration and the points against the formation of a new sophomore literary society are excellently taken...