Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serves to raise the question of just how much fealty the College can justifiably require from an individual outside Hanover walls. To what extent is the individual obligated? To what extremes may the College proceed to maintain a normal tone of decency among these undergraduates who, for the moment, are not clustered under the very flagstaff of the College's banner...
...course the CRIMSON was tactless; it took a snarling tone as does any often-threatened dog; it impressed into service arguments which are, to say the lest, doubtful. Nevertheless, it was politically wise for the CRIMSON to speak in the year Harvard won just as loudly as it has spoken in years when the Army has colored the Stadium with a pale pink. It would have been hypocritical to do otherwise...
...interests in common, and that Army-Harvard games are not popular, found a straight division of the house, with the CRIMSON voting "Aye", the graduates "Nay". But both stands on these questions are un-provable, and the questions themselves really extraneous. The third point is the CRIMSON's sneering tone, which is, of course, insupportable...
Strause, "Ein Heldinieben," Tone Poem, Opus...
After this slight Apologia Pro Columna Sua we must turn to grander things. Tonight in Sanders Theatre the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play Strauss's. "Ein Heldenleben," a "Tondichtung," or in simplified terms "A Hero Life" a "Tone Poem." Out of deference to the artistic spirit the Vagabond will not launch into his usual scholarly criticism. He is willing, may desirous, of abiding by the composer's dictum that, "There is no need of a program. It is enough to know that a hero is fighting his enemies." That is the crux of the whole work; bear it in mind...