Word: tone
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Salem of his father is interesting alike from its subject and its writer, who promises us further articles about Hawthorne in Concord, Boston, and Brook Farm. Altogether, the allow us to speak of them in detail ; we can hardly see how it can be bettered in its literary tone at least...
...Yale News adopts a half-contemptuous tone in speaking editorially of the list of "Immortals" recently published in our columns. "Out of respect for the ability of Harvard students," says the News, severely, "We prefer to look upon it as an expression of personal liking, rather than the result of any deliberate exercise of judgment." We are most free to confess that we do not altogether approve of the list ourselves; but will the News kindly print us a list of its own which shall be formed, not from "personal liking," but from a "deliberate exercise of judgment," that...
...gone forth from her walls. Every student who has the good fortune to come in contact with these men feels that he is bettered by that contact and that he is bettered by that contact and those who did not know them still feel their influence in the higher tone that pervades the university. Unfortunately the circle of such men as Ezra Abbott and Benjamin Pierce is but small at Harvard and every day it is growing smaller. Those that still remain may go at any moment and we cannot help feeling that we belong to the privileged...
...vagueness about the statement contained in the words "Western editor" and "fortune" that makes it read after the manner of an old fable, still, like an old fable, it has a moral, and it is of this moral that we propose to say a few words. the whole tone of our colleges is, we think, undergoing a considerable change in one respect in particular, namely, the light in which the profession of journalism is regarded. A few days since one of our exchanges made use of some figures to show the difference the last few years have made...
...recent Yale alumni dinner President Porter said: "As far as Yale is concerned athletics are doing well; they do not divert the interest of the students nor do they diminish the zeal for culture as a whole. The tone of the students is improved by the slight diversion of attention which they cause. I take the liberty of explaining why we are reticent in making arrangements in regard to athletics with the other colleges. It is the result of long experience. The question has been talked over more than ten years, and upon it President Eliot and myself have bestowed...