Word: tone
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...grudges, have placed him; and finally, love begetting in him a soul, he renounces his precarious existence for the sake of others, and foils the devilish intent of the which and the fiend who produced him. It will be seen at once that such a change of tone between the beginning and the end, and so unexpected a call on the sympathy of the audience from a figure which at the outset was not even animate, create a situation the acting success of which it is all but impossible to surmise. But there is no doubt about the fact that...
...many men who share in the general dislike for the insincere tone of the average modern journal, Mr. Hapgood's address should be a revelation. As editor of the now will-known and influential Collier's Weekly, Mr. Hapgood stands among those few journalists who have attained a reputation for fair-mindedness, sincerity and strength. He represents the type of man who can do and is doing the nation a real service, by appealing to the people for fair play, unselfishly and without prejudice for class or clan. Modern journalism needs the help of such men, who, as many believe...
Believing that journalism in its best form is a subject but little understood today, and that the tone of modern journalism can be raised by an invasion of men of the right calibre, the CRIMSON invited Mr. Norman Hapgood, editor of Collier's Weekly, to speak on this subject before a Harvard audience. We are pleased to announce that Mr. Hapgood has consented to come to Cambridge on April 6, and to tell us what his experience as a successful editor has taught him of the opportunities offered by a journalistic career...
...term meant to include all the College periodicals except the five undergraduate papers, gives interesting information on a subject probably little known to undergraduates. Variety and relief are gained by an amusing ghost story by Mr. H. B. Sheahan. On the whole, the issue, though somewhat perfunctory in tone and journalistic in style, is mildly interesting and informing...
...Last Chapter of 'Smith's Decline and Fall of the World" suffers from an excess of imagination. Occasionally one finds vivid flashes, such as the incident of the last man and woman, but, as a whole, the conception is chaotic. Mr. Alken's sonnet, with its dramatic, almost conversational tone, is more novel than thoroughly effective. But the impression that it leaves of the rapscallion Villon is clear...