Word: tones
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stress upon the necessity of action within parties by private citizens. We believe that measures of final and permanent influence can best be handled through parties and not by means of spasmodic and local impulses. Sincere and honest private citizens can do their country more good by elevating the tone of parties than by manifesting a vacillating independence in politics. Mr. Storey practically admits this, but, accepting parties as necessary, he slurs over somewhat the real value of earnest work within partisan bodies...
...renewed conviction as to the wisdom of our religious system. With the experience of two years behind us, we know that the bright outlook for the coming winter will not be falsified. Mr. Locke has strengthened the chapel choir by the addition of new members and the volume and tone of the boy's voices have greatly improved. There is no danger that the music will fall below its usual high standard...
...sorry that the management of the base ball nine has not seen fit to explain the statement made in a recent communication, that a large number of reserved seats for the Yale game had been sold in advance of the public sale. The communication was entirely conrteous in its tone and it seemed to us that, in justice to the writer and the college at large, as well as to the management itself, it required an explanation of the facts as it stated them. As it is the men in college must accept the facts as they were stated...
...testimony of these exceptionally competent witnesses confirms the evidence which comes from many other sources, and it is to this effect. The attendance, although voluntary, has been good. The vesper services have been thronged. There never was more religious life and activity at Harvard than to-day. The tone of morals is exceptionally healthful. Public sentiment in college is on the side of sincere and manly piety. The old practice of appointing a single preacher and compelling the students to hear him had to be given up at Harvard, as it will sooner or later have to be at Yale...
Professor Peabody's statement that the growth of athletics had tended to improve the general tone of the college forms a most refreshing contrast to the illiberal attitude of the Overseers. They seem to think that the time given to athletics is so much taken from study, while, as a matter of fact, it is just that class which is naturally least inclined to study that enters most heartily into athletics. The "training" which these men have to keep is certainly beneficial, and often restrains the thoughtless from actions to which they would otherwise be inclined. The influence upon...