Word: toning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...evils of publicity are not, how-ever, limited to disturbing the proper relations between mental and physical training. There is beyond this the offensive notoriety from which the press allows no football player to escape. Gentlemanly games are reduced to the same level as professional exhibitions and the tone of collegiate contests is inevitably lowered, by the sensational importance which attaches to them in the papers. For this, it must be admitted, there is some excuse. When college men admit to their sports any one who will pay for the entertainment, and carry this practice into cities where there...
...been decided to enlarge the Mandolin Club. Heretofore the number of mandolins has been restricted to six; thus the club has always lacked a breadth and volume of tone. The change proposed cannot fail to ensure success for the coming season, as talent is not lacking...
...better start could possibly have been made in the track athletic season than the enthusiastic meeting that was held in Lower Massachusetts last evening. The tone of the meeting was one which should banish the last remnant of that intolerable cant of "Harvard indifference." Harvard's record in track athletics is a splendid one, in spite of recent defeats, and the whole-hearted applause with which those who have helped to make that record were received last night showed that the men now in college upon whom the responsibility for keeping up the record rests, will do their duty...
...before him a vision of the great games, and he speaks at first enthusiastically for there was no one who would not do his best to win or get a high place in the Olympic games. As Paul turns aside to the race of life there comes to his tone a touch of sadness. That is the race that can be won only by long and patient toil. All Paul can say is "let us run with patience." There are many who do not run at all, who walk, who creep, some even who sit down...
...emphasis is being laid on the gentlemanly side of their nature and less on the barbaric. And in expressions of such a sentiment Harvard is bound to be in the lead. No other American university is so characterized by gentlemanliness, and the rush is harshly discordant with the Harvard tone. Not only the Faculty, but the great body of students also are strongly in favor of letting a dead past bury its dead...