Word: toned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some ingenuous or else knavish freshman recently graduated from Andover, has been writing articles to the Philippians signing himself "Pilliparius" and evidently considering himself an accredited delegate to represent Harvard thought to the fellows at Andover. This eccentric individual has asserted various views as coming from Harvard against the tone of the Exonian and all Exeter besides. Naturally Exeter is up in arms at this attack and wants to know if that is the way in which Exeter is viewed by Harvard men. We would inform the students there that the presuming young man must be either some escaped lunatic...
...Instead of seven or eight hundred, as formerly, there are now one hundred and fifty; but those one hundred and fifty are animated by a sincere spirit of devotion. The constraint and formality has passed away. And (whether or not, as a consequence of the change) the general religious tone of the University has been, of late, greatly elevated and improved.-Presbyterian...
...different it would all have been if Yand the rest had continued to be pleasant to X. Would it have lowered our social tone? No. Would it have increased the enthusiasm for athletics? Certainly...
...snobbery is entirely foreign to the tone of the Harvard spirit, it could easily be done away with without injuring that spirit. The only thing, however, that can accomplish the overthrow of snobbery is a reform in the general sentiment of the college, an awakening in the whole college of a sense of the common good. It seems that the tendency of the times is already in that direction. To that end we add our prayers...
...Tuftonian in discussing the difference in tone exhibited by Harvard and Yale says: "We do not mean to imply that Harvard is over-confident, but simply that its students are characterized by a disposition to look at the best side of things...