Word: toning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...stimulate in voters patriotism and a sense of individual responsibility; to expose existing corruption in whatever party and to show the reforming efficacy of a resolute public sentiment. 3. The essays are to be historical in argument, supported by facts, and free from political bias or party propagandism. The tone shall be moderate; the style plain and terse, and likely to interest alike the educated and uncultivated reader. 4. The essays are to be type-written, signed with a nom de plume, and the true name of the author to be enclosed in a sealed envelope, superscribed with the assumed...
...between graduate and undergraduate work. As the present elective system has now brought together in the same lecture room undergraduates of all classes it is impossible to take such advantage of the maturity of the seniors as might otherwise be done to introduce into the undergraduate courses a professional tone...
...condition of affairs which, everyone maintains, exists now-a-days at Harvard. It reflects upon everyone in college, for if a group of representative men, chosen only because they can sing, cannot be trusted, then the college at large is not trustworthy. There is a deal of school-boy tone attached to all the arguments which we have heard so far against the trip which is humiliating to say the least. If the fact that the great majority of Harvard under-graduates are just as much interested in upholding the good name of the college as any of the graduates...
...fortunate in the selection of their pieces, which were chiefly dance music. Mr. Corne's "Fantasy" gave opportunity for the heavy effects of the full orchestra which were so successful a year ago. The audience was treated to the novelty of a 'cello solo by Mr. Wolff, whose splendid tone and technique won him an encore...
Prof. Lyon's lecture yesterday was on the "Cuneiform Inscriptions an the Psalter." The Babylonians and Assyrians had many hymns and psalms which resemble the psalms of the Old Testament in form, in tone and in expression. The most striking resemblances occur in the class of psalms called penitential. Several of these productions were translated. When the Jews were exiled at Babylon in the sixth century B. C., they could not fail to be impressed by the splendid ritual of which these psalms were a part, and it is not unlikely that they may have adopted some of them, with...