Word: tone
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second-class. They will get about as much from one as the other. But the 'remnant,' the bright men with possibilities in them, are a college's most precious opportunity. And it is just these who are the greatest sufferers from the system that gives them a provincial tone for life, instead of imparting, as a University should, a sentiment of universality...
...defender of Anglomania is pleased to adopt a tone of injured liberality in condemning the "narrowing down of our models," and further continues, - "I cannot see that I am less patriotic because finding that the dress of Englishmen is more becoming or their speech more musical than our own, I try to copy after them in these respects." The italics are mine...
With all its peculiarities, American college journalism mirrors with surprising truthfulness the states of feeling, we had almost said the degrees of civilization, prevailing in the several parts of our broad land, The critical reader will easily detect differences in the tone of the kindred publications of our eastern colleges; between North, South, and West, the gulf is too wide for the most casual reader to overlook. Here in the north we have reached the stage of devotion to the aesthetic, so well illustrated by the Century and Harpers'. Sketches and stories whose aim is some artistic form and merit...
...Alex. Lambert, of whom little seems to be definitely known. The concerto did not receive quite the treatment that it deserved. The performance was, on the whole, sufficiently brilliant, but the effect was marred by occasional carelessness, while all attempts at forte playing resulted in a surprising harshness of tone...
...orchestral work was exceedingly good, very few blemishes being noticed, and those very slight. The Unfinished Symphony, Schubert's most charming work, was played with great fire and passion. Considerable improvement was found in the tone of the oboe over what has been heard before, which contributed not a little to the general. As regards the Eroica, the writer certainly never heard a better performance. So perfectly was the comper's idea expressed that toward the close of the second movement the intensity of feeling became almost painful. The scherzo, following this, makes so much of a contrast that...