Word: tone
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deserves to be noticed also that the spirit pervading the players and spectators throughout the game was of the pleasantest in every way. This fact lent a very agreeable tone to the contest...
...cause them to drop flies and make wild throws, and I saw the cheering led in one quarter by a substitute of the 'Varsity nine, conspicuous by his uniform cap, there seemed to be no further room for excuses and I was bound to confess that the old chivalrous tone prevading Harvard audiences on the ball field had departed. I am not alone in this opinion for the condemnation of the afternoon's proceedings by all the graduates with whom I conversed after the game was as hearty...
...above clipping gives evidence of that spirit of newspaper work which is now doing so much to lower the tone of the press in this country. In a vain search after reputation as a brilliant reporter, the unscrupulous newspaper man hunts around for exciting news. When none can be found, an inaugriative brain has been known to concoct falsehoods and publish them with brazen effrontery. Colleges especially are exposed to this newspaper pest. The doings of students are always painted in the loudest tints and an indiscretion is magnified into a crime...
...Baker in verse entitled "On the Quay at Porta Portese" tells an interesting historical anecdote of pagan Rome. We have already noted a peculiar characteristic of the poetry of Mr. Baker, that of tone. It is here again noticeable. There seems to be a dull hush falling on the lines which serves the purpose of a true onomatopoeia...
...tone of the college press is improving every year, and we notice a more manly spirit. It was toward this feeling of friendly and open intercourse that Mr. Cowles' speech tended the other evening, and those who heard it were more than glad to return the advance in double measure, And so we feel sure that any ill feeling between Harvard and Yale in the past is due in a great measure to the careful nourishing of the seeds of jealousy by outside influences, particularly by that of the daily public press. Careless reporting and "special" work done...