Word: tone
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...some man prominent in industry to speak to the Seniors on the demands of the business world on college men today--to tell them what they can do by their own power, as a result of their training here, and by the force of their example, to raise the tone of our industrial life. Such an address, it seems to us, could point out in a practical way to the men who have been here for four years, how they could apply the principles and ideals they have learned here in the business world which they are about to enter...
...larger part of the number is composed of fiction. Mr. Simonson's "Unfinished Madonna" is a delicately told story, rich in sensuous suggestion; and has a symmetry of form and a subdued harmony of tone that give it artistic quality. The characters are on the whole so well imagined that one regrets the more keenly the lapse of imagination that compels him to conclude the story by a suicide. The same regret occurs to one in reading Mr. Carb's terrible but effective character study "Leri," though in this case the suicide is not only more clearly inevitable but better...
...Library has just received as a gift from Mrs. Paine the manuscript copy of the score on which the late Professor J.K. Paine h.'69 was at work at the time of his death. It is entitled "Lincoln, a Tragic Tone Poem," and consists of twenty-six folio pages of music. Professor Paine had in mind for many years this work, which he hoped would be his greatest achievement...
...highest possible conception of journalism from top to bottom, from the editor-in-chief to the reporter. It seems to me, said Mr. Quincy, that the need for University men as reporters is very great. The function of the reporter is not low, but most important, and if the tone of the press is to be raised, it must be through the reporters. Let us then get educated men upon our papers, and lot. Harvard graduates start at the bottom, for it takes a man of education, trained mind, and high standards, to be a good reporter...
...were asked to name a man who has done more and in more valuable directions for America.' And, so, at the close of a century from his birth, in every quarter of our land, America is celebrating the birthday of him who did so much for her. Everywhere the tone of affection will mingle with the tone of admiration. It is the man whose life was as beautiful as his own verse; it is the exceptionally good and pleasant man, no less than the delightful poet, who is everywhere cherished and honored; and here in the community which knew...