Word: toning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Boston Journal will on Sunday contain an excellent half-tone cut of the Harvard 'varsity crew. The cut will be a quarter of a page in size; full accounts of all the men will also be given. It will also publish cuts of the seven leading tennis players in the United States...
...undignified system of petty regulations, with their accompanying pains and penalties, and the adoption of a manly and liberal method of government, appealing to the conscience and reason of the student, are especially due to President Eliot individually; and the salutary effect of these measures on the tone and character of the University are visible to all who know it intimately and can compare its present state with that of an earlier...
...them together before they have been fused into the glowing amalgam. In the experiments made for casting Big Ben, the great bell for the Westminster tower, it has been found that the superstition that it was the presence of silver in larger proportion which gave the remarkable sweetness of tone to certain of the old bells had no foundation in fact. It was the skilful proportions with which the ordinary metals were balanced one against the other, and the perfection of form and the nice gradations of thickness that wrought the miracle. And it is precisely so with the language...
...print in another column a high compliment on the gentlemanly tone which prevailed at the "Harvard Night." Precisely this sort of compliment was not expected from the good old Transcript...
...thus early given to the character. In books, as in the world, it seems to me not only prudent but delightful to keep the best company. By that means the brain becomes at last plenam semper et frequentem domum concursu splendidissimorum hominum, and our minds acquire that tone of good society which only such intercourse can give. Remember, that as all roads lead to Rome, so from a really great book avenues open out that invite our curiosity and interest toward the most various and seemingly alien domains of thought...