Word: tone
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...still hold to their original excellence, we must aver that there has been a decided advance "all along the line," and that the organs of many of our smaller colleges seem to improve with every number. If a growing tendency to Courant-ism can be avoided, and the moral tone of college journalism can be steadily maintained, the outlook may be considered very promising. We beg leave to suggest that to ignore the Niagara Index, the Illini, and others of that ilk, would be a first step of some importance toward the desired...
...Advocate wishes to discourage an institution like the Lacrosse Association, a more courteous tone would certainly be more becoming, and would have greater effect than an attempt to brand an organization of fellow-students with epithets as unjust as they are uncalled...
...almost as valuable as those who have left. Yale, though she has suffered a heavy loss, will, no doubt, prove a worthy antagonist, and can only be beaten, if she be beaten at all, by earnest work on our part. For this reason it seems to us that our tone should be one of mingled hope and determination, with no feeling of confidence that the result next year must be favorable...
...this almost unprecedented step of abandoning boat-racing in the autumn is Harvard's feeling of confidence on the water." As an authority for this view of the situation the World quotes the Boston Sunday Times of October 9, in which what seems to us an almost boastful tone is assumed in discussing our rowing prospects for next year. We think that the writer in the Times misrepresents in reference to this question the College feeling, which, it seems to us, can be better described by the word hopeful than confident. There is great doubt whether seven of the Crew...
Disengaging her hand from his throat, Bob assured her in as calm a tone as he could command under the trying circumstances, that he was not "her own," and he also would be greatly obliged to her if she would not "have him once more" again. After hesitating a moment, she evidently concluded not to, and resumed her seat...