Word: tone
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter was to have been brought up before the Brown faculty last week, but owing to press of other business it was deferred until Tuesday evening, when the faculty had a free discussion of the resolutions. While agreeing with the general tone of the paper, as intended to elevate athletics, they did not approve of several particulars, especially restrictions in regard to playing professional nines. They agreed with the resolve to do away with professional trainers. It is thought at Brown that the resolutions would practically kill baseball, which is the only sport which is much practised there. The reason...
...guarantee that such a change is taking place. Only two years ago the students of Andover Academy hooted the freshmen of '85 who had beaten them at football, and the Phillipian itself said some unpleasant things about the results of the game. Now all seems changed, and from the tone of their article it appears that they hold Harvard in highest esteem and think that Yale has not kept up to the times in matters of liberal education...
...good college paper is worth more for the moral and gentlemanly tone of college life than a library of by-laws and an army of faculty spies. [New York Independent...
...bespeak for it a long run. That the stage is a legitimate and profitable field for the pens of the literary men of our time and country cannot be doubted, and any play, with real literary merit, as well as the merit of action, tends to raise the tone of the stage and thereby benefits society...
...many quarters some ten years ago. The reasons for this gratifying change of opinion are, in part, the almost total disappearance of those organizations that in the early days of college fraternities mistook the true purposes of those societies to be such as must lower the intellectual and moral tone of their members, the careful maintenance of a high standard of membership by the influential fraternities, the better understanding of the fraternity system by its honest opponents, and finally the sheer exhaustion of those that heretofore have maintained a vigorous tilt at the windmill for exercise's sake, on finding...