Word: toned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Barring the first book review, the November Monthly has taken an aggressive, straightforward tone fairly free from convention and happily from preciosity, Professor Francke's featured article on "Germany's Hope," that is, individual subordination to ideal advance of the state, would have conveyed its point with somewhat less iteration of detail. A writer in the Spectator recently countered this point of view by finding English salvation in the British quality of "you-be-damnedness." That Harvard has it in individuals is evident from the somewhat daring editorials. There, for instance, R. G. N. avers that better poetry...
...story that Major Clarence Wiener '00, had threatened to cut out of his will a bequest of $10,000,000 to Harvard unless the connection of Professor Muensterberg with the University was severed at once. The reason for this action of Major Wiener's was found in the general tone of some of Professor Muensterberg's statements in which he spoke freely in defense of Germany. The decisive action of the Corporation in refusing to accept Major Weiner's offer was the first which has been officially taken in the matter...
Richard Strauss, Tone Poem, "Don Juan...
Richard Strauss, Tone Poem, "Don Juan...
...CRIMSON at the close of his Sophomore year, he was chosen as managing editor the following spring and became president in the fall. It was in this capacity that his work showed to best advantage and due to his zeal many improvements were made in the general tone of the paper...