Word: tones
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tone of the Yale News is, when comparing Yale's nine to that of Harvard, not the most assuring. The News admits that the Harvard men are harder hitters than the Yale men, and betber base runners...
...most popular thing on the programme. Another feature was the fine rendering of a lovely little "Lullaby," by Brahms. The performance closed with an arrangement of Handel's "Largo," for chorus and orchestra. In this was presented the most artistic work of the evening. The body of tone produced by the strings was remarkably full and even, and the entrance of the voices at the climax of the movement was very effective...
...speaking was good as a rule; a certain monotony of tone, however, characterized most of the speakers, and some of the best work showed too much careful the previous training of the declaimers. The gesticulation, on the whole, was crude, but in some cases it was remarkable rather for its finish than for its aptness. The carriage of the majority of speakers on the platform, evidenced a serious lack of ease. The movements that were made were too often jerky. At times the stiffness of the whole action of the speaker detracted seriously from the spontaneity of the rendering...
...students will be long enough to allow him to reach some definite end in his work. The result of this recurring change will undoubtedly be in the highest degree beneficial to the general work. Let the rebuke of the ardent west against godless Harvard now be modified in tone. What if university prayer meetings are less attractive to the students than evening celebrations, as our contemporary the Clarion complains? The liberality shown in the plan by which each leading denomination will be represented is worthy of more general observance, even among critics. The plan may not provoke a revival...
...Henry James as a Novelist," by Mr. S.D. Richardson, is interesting, and shows much appreciation and real insight. Still it is not wholly satisfactory, failing to give any decided impression. Mr. C. T. Semper's study of George Eliot's "Silas Marner" is of a different tone from anything the Monthly has ever published, and because of the very variety is offers is good reading. The study is even philosophical, without the heaviness that so often goes with philosophy; and deep, without the oppressiveness of depth...