Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although your correspondent appreciates your attempt to tone down the frantic demands of Harvard graduates for a "big-time" football team, I cannot permit to go unnoticed the following statements in the editorial in yesterday's paper. It states: "The majority of graduates, unfortunately, retain their Harvard connection only through the football team, with the result that large endowment funds and winning elevens tend to go hand and hand. Even if the College believes their views wrong, it is often impolitic to disregard them." There is absolutely no support whatever for the statement that at Harvard large endowments depend...
...Dial 911, wait for the dial tone, then dial nine, hang up, and wait for the phone to ring." Such are the instructions from a meddlesome student who has discovered in the new telephone system a method of revenge for the petty persecutions of human operators...
...rugged individualist with tears in his eyes is a sorry spectacle. When those whose interests are most vitally involved in the system of private enterprise can find no better defence of their beliefs than twaddle about liberty and Americanism, they must expect others to become slightly bored. The new tone is encouraging. Regardless of the New Deal majority in Congress one can expect more intelligent opposition in the future. Only by this means can the parliamentary system be saved...
...Paramount and Fenway Theaters will present "Gentlemen Are Born," a picture which should be of interest to every college student. Dealing frankly with the difficulties which beset newly-graduated college men, the plot is both thought-provoking and enlightening. Prominent among the members of the cast are Franchot Tone, Jean Muir, Margaret Lindsay, and Ann Dvorak. The companion feature will be "Hell in the Heavens," starring Richard Barthlemess...
...realize themselves and engage in any kind of rational action they must find for themselves certain values and a feeling tone that may sift the stimuli they encounter in some ordered way. Students should be aware that learning is a great deal more than the acquisition of details and that it is but a basis for fostering wisdom and understanding, a preparation for action that cannot be decisive or personally worthwhile without some conscious formulation of values...