Word: tones
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Drummond, the bright young Scotchman who has been making a visit to some of the leading American colleges, says that to him their most remarkable feature is "their Christian tone.' The professor probably has not dropped around when the Harvard sophomores were hazing the freshmen, or the boys of Cornell having a cane rush, or Yale trampling Princeton's football team in the mud.- Boston Post...
...room, the parlors and reading-room, each house has accommodations for from ten to eighteen students. They are really college homes; and, forming as they do, the recognized centres of society life, they are of the utmost importance as giving to the social life of the college its distinctive tone. Most society men take rooms in these houses for the last two or three years of their course...
That if athletic distinction were considered the summum bonum of college life, our teams would be strengthened through the stronger interest taken in them, is perhaps true; that athletics and a delight in athletics tend to elevate morals, and to introduce a fresh and healthy tone in any place where they are much considered, is beyond doubt. It is not equally certain that we can change the present order of things; for, firstly, the worship of athletic idols pertains to colleges, where muscular excellence is worshipped in its incarnation. Secondly, if we are to develop into a full-fledged university...
...speakers to do more than merely exercise their voices for the benefit of nobody. We trust that the eyes of the officers of the Union may become riveted on these justifiable complaints, and may stick there until there owners arrive at some satisfactory way in which to elevate the tone of the "general debate...
...Lawpoon makes its first appearance this season today. Under the regime of the '88 board, the tone of that paper have been steadily advancing and the present number shows an exceptional excellence in its well executed pictures and the humor of its articles. There is no college paper which labors under more difficulties than the Lampoon and none in which success should be more assured. The experiment of starting the same kind of a publication at other colleges has proved a dismal failure, and every student should show his appreciation of the energy and push which has been displayed...