Word: tone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Saunders exhibited a "violin, consisting simply of a string undertension, which gave out so little tone that he observed that its place was in an apartment house...
...indeed the program which the Glee Club presents tonight could hardly be improved upon. Two or three numbers demand particular mention. One of the most beautiful is a choral by Bach with a flute obbligato, a lonely little miniature of delicately etched tone which rises, swells and is gone like a breath of increase. Immediately after it comes in old hymn by Vittorio. "Ovos Ommes," which, with its long singing, phrases and fire crescendos seems to each among the dim aisles and die softly away in the clowdy depths of the cathedral which it conjures up before the listener...
Sought out by reporters, Samuel Insull will speak of that evening, of the magazine. He adds, in matter-of-fact tone, that it was pure chance that made him answer an advertisement in which one Col. George E. Gourard announced his desire for a secretary. Colonel Gourard represented the Edison interests in London. Samuel Insull was a good secretary. When Mr. Edison needed a secretary, Colonel Gourard recommended him. So began one of the most important combinations in U. S. business...
...from the truth. Humanization and very definite suggestions for its introduction were the two things which I specifically stressed. "My article was, in its small way, simply and solely a plea for just such an academic Renaissance. Because Liberty omitted all my suggestions for reform, the whole character and tone of my article was distorted. Originally, it was not a condemnation of all college teachers who have labored and gained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, but an attack on the existing standards which I believed, and still believe, to be detrimental to the best interests of college teaching...
...mirror of correctness and savoir faire, has gone "mucker." To bedaub guests with insult was worthy of that curious taste. When one remembers such urbane Lampooners as the distinguished lawyer and sometime Ambassador who wrote "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge," one is surprised by the difference of the modern tone. Such is the improving effect of intercollegiate sport upon manners and the sense of proportion and decency...