Word: tone
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...genuine wittiness of its text the Lampoon, in our opinion, does and has always surpassed all its rivals. That its cuts, in mechanical execution, have not equalled those of some other illustrated college papers must, we think, be admitted; in spirit, however, they have always hit the popular tone at Harvard. The Lampoon is representative. To insure its succest it must have the support of all Harvard men. This, we think, will be willingly accorded...
...commend the instruction received by the young mind of the writer of the above, as shown in his closing sentence. More of such instruction carefully taken in by our young friend will explain to him the difference in the tone of the remarks in exchanges and outside papers when referring respectively to Harvard and Yale...
...courtesy, but we have been toying with a delusion and a snare. The item in question stated that Mr. Robinson had received overtures from Yale men to accept the position of gymnasium trainer at the institution that is gaining such an enviable reputation for itself through the Dennis Kearney tone of its journalistic representatives. We published the announcement on good authority, and still persist that Mr. Robinson was approached and was offered liberal inducements to resign his position here, which, for apparent reasons, he declined to do. But supposing for an instant that we had been mistaken, we doubt very...
...Parnell's speech on the repression bill is said to have been of a very moderate and apologetic tone...
...relations of students to their faculties and to each other should not be placed on the ordinary basis of social decorum, enforced, when necessary, by the appropriate legal sanctions, it is difficult to see. Many old fashions are quaint and charming; this one certainly is not. The tone of the age is against this 'peculiar institution.' Overgrown classes, eager individual work in special lines, the advanced age compelled by high standards of qualification, largely relieve the individual student from his duty as guardian of class dignity and general corrigeur des moeurs...