Word: toning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...surprised, when I opened the last Crimson, to come upon a piece entitled "Class Politics." The term is so inappropriate to any state of things that should exist at College, and so suggestive of a tone of feeling from which it is hoped Harvard has emancipated herself, that I was not unprepared for the disapproval I soon began to feel in reading the article. As I continued to read, however, disapproval deepened into indignation. The question of open elections no longer seemed an unsettled issue. That reform was not the modification of an institution for the sake of convenience...
Raying the true on a tone-poet's pure thought...
...champions in Greek and mathematics. We have never said, in so many words, that we were too big for such amusements; but that is what our actions have said for us. I have no means of knowing whether the other colleges feel offended by all this; but, if the tone of our papers displeases them, there is no reason why this tacit assertion of superiority should not do so as well...
...readers of the Crimson, hoping that the difficulty of the task of condensation has not obliged me to do injustice to the ability and experience which are displayed in these reports. The condition of the University in almost every department seems to be highly encouraging, and there is a tone of energy and hopefulness in these reports which ought to increase our respect for the government of our Alma Mater...
...have received a well-written contribution on the Index, but through lack of space are unable to print it in these columns. The general tone of the article is by no means flattering to the editors of the Index, and the writer comments severely upon several features in the book which are justly censurable. He complains that the Index is published simply for the purpose of making money, and not to provide students with correct lists of the members of the different societies and accurate records of the athletic contests; deplores the lack of any good management in the book...