Word: toning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...exile changed the tone of the Jewish people. Their country was in the main peaceful and they had a cheerfulness that came from feeling that God was on their side. After their exile they were scattered and as aliens were isolated and made to feel the strangeness of their situation. In some cases they were persecuted but not so much as we are apt to think. These persecutions were especially bitter about the second century...
...attempt to judge Tennyson, nor to give him his proper rank. We are, in the most serious sense, hero-worshippers before him. The more we read, the more must we admire at once his gentle loveliness, his subtle charm, his manly greatness, and above all, his pure and lofty tone of mind...
...with clear speech and also conduces much to is forcibleness. Mechanical exercises in teaching are to be avoided. Surely reading Shakespeare's works gives abundant opportunity for the practising of all sounds, and the reading of novels, helps much in giving a resonant and delicate modulation of tone. Artificiality must be strictly avoided, though it is admissable in painting, sculpture and other arts. No man reads without its having an effect on his voice; he cannot speak well without a book education, namely, reading at large...
...coming issue of Sport, Music and Drama, out on Saturday next, will contain an article on the Harvard crew, illustrated, with half tone cut from photographs...
...other feature of the concert, the dancing in Memorial Hall, ought to be made an important and enjoyable feature. The efforts which were made at the winter concert to elevate the tone of this part of the program were attended with gratifying success. The dances, however, are still not all that they should be, and every effort should be made this evening to make the dance which follows the glee club concert in Cambridge up to the level of those which accompany the concerts given in Jamaica Plain or Brookline...