Word: tone
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...play is distinguished by its extreme simplicity--there are but six characters--and a rugged austerity of motion. It is gaunt and strong. Its weakness lies in its sameness of tone, which produces monotony of effect, in conventional characterization, and an anticlimactic last act. Mr. Knoblauch is fortunate to have his play in the hands of Miss Ashwell, who is new to our stage. Her admirable performance was marked by a certain suggestive repression that recalled forcibly the art and methods of Duse...
...advise of the editorial article on "Happy Mid-years," which seems to be aimed both against excessive "grinding" and frantic tutoring, is certainly worthy of consideration; the tone of the paragraph on new resolutions is that of admonition tinged with gentle cynicism. The contribution inveighing against serious-mindedness, is, however, not in the least cynical, and if it fails to convince some of us, it is not because the article is not pleasantly written. Of the two pieces of verse, "Winter Dreams" is poetical in conception, but the imagery seems to lack originality, and the lines drag. "River Wind...
...editorial page is partly but not wholly free from two faults which limit the influence of the college editorial. These are: first, a nagging particularity in the discussion of matters so small that they really belong in a complaint-box; secondly, a tone which is too laboriously polite and paternal to be effective when one undergraduate seriously wishes to influence the opinions or the conduct of his fellows...
...verse is entirely different in tone and on the whole distinctly well done, "Corporation Football" is the sort of thing that ought to be valuable years from now as an admirable expression of the undergraduate feeling toward the reform of football by the authorities. "The Cruise of the Scholarship" is cleverly done, and the verse is excellent. "Victor and Vanquished" would be better were it not for a suggestion of those heroic bits in "Pieces for Recitation" which afford so much of the material for grammar school declamation...
...covers of the Anniversary Number reproduce those of the first edition. On the editorial page is a tribute to Professor Shaler. Its reminiscent tone brings to the reader's mind a host of personal memories that carry him far beyond the printed page. "The Source" is a sonnet by Frank Dempster Sherman '87 on the east and the morning, which he handles with delicacy and sureness, and with entire success. "On the Return of a Graduate", by Richard Washburn Child '03 is a most gratifyingly deft and complete exposition of a rather intangible subject. It is bright and readable throughout...