Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard is believed to be a kind of entrance to Hades," states a report entitled "Tone and Tendencies of Harvard College as Seen by Students from other college "that was discovered molding in the depths of the College Library yesterday. The report was drawn up by some hundred students who came to Harvard with illusions from other colleges about...
...standards of morality. Although the dangerous influences at Harvard are many, less crime is committed here per capita, than in other communities of similar size. This indicates that a comparatively small number of men in Harvard join the criminal class. On the whole, we may say that the moral tone of Harvard is worldly...
...inquiries display a seriousness that is impressive. In the main, they come not only from men who are qualified by experience in executive positions, but also in many cases from men lately graduated who seek this means of further training. The letters of inquiry are without exception dignified in tone and exhibit a sense that the better a man can be equipped now, the more he can do tomorrow with the equipment. The best features about them is that they show no signs of panic. They are, on the contrary, the letters of men determined to have the employment they...
...anything could make you believe that old John Brown, hero-villain of Osawotamie and Harper's Ferry, was a great soul, God's Angry Man could. Author Leonard Ehrlich has stuck close to facts but insists his book is a novel, not biography or history. Its tone is sombre without relief. As the cumulative tragedy comes to its climax few readers will wish for any but the inevitable outcome. For a man who had lived the life of old John Brown, his end was best...
...this is a parody that parodies itself. Nothing is taken seriously but the friendship of Louis and Emile, whose adventures in gently inept romance and business melodrama, respectively, run hilariously together: and since this is no very serious matter, either, we are never required to depart from the tone established with such precision in the early scenes. M. Clair's control of his craft is sure enough to permit him an almost improvisatory lightness in places without the slightest detriment to the narrative, and the consistent use of tinsel scenery, paper flowers, and music box accompaniment is quite in keeping...