Word: echo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some time there had been a deeply felt want for a daily paper that would furnish the daily news and announcements with which a large university abounds. In December, 1879, this want was satisfied by the publication of "The Echo," a sheet about the size of the present DAILY CRIMSON and devoted to the same class of news. It in no way interfered with the other journals and led a prosperous existence until the fall of '82, when it was succeeded by a larger sheet, and of a somewhat higher tone, called "The Harvard Herald," a name that was changed...
...quivers for an instant in the Octagon Tower and then goes suddenly out, announcing to the world that the jubilee is ended, and Father Time must plod on another hundred years, until a century swings round once more and unborn thousands come to make these hills once more re-echo their festival...
...most ordinary observer, and can hardly have escaped the attention of the faculty. Moreover, that little benefit is derived from the service by the students at large is generally acknowledged. Taking into consideration that attendance is compulsory, and with all due respect to the faculty, we think we but echo the common sentiment of the college in saying that the gospel, as preached to us, is not just what it should be. When we consider that the four years of college life will determine our religious convictions in great part, we think that the subject should be presented...
...pyrotechnic display of much variety and substance took place amid the vociferous cheering of the '89 enthusiasts. The line of march was then taken up and cheered on by the triumphant strains of "Yale Men Say," and "Marching Through Georgia," the freshman made the walls of the old dormitories echo and re-echo with the sound of their prolonged "rah's." Transparencies bearing the names of the freshman nine and trenchant sarcasm upon Yale, the CRIMSON and others who expected to hear of defeat at the hands of the 'Blue' freshmen were displayed. After the yard had been traversed...
...time seems to increase the annoyance, time also has added fuel to our wrath. The dulcet strains of the oboe and the nerveless screech of the violin have become simply maddening when they interrupt the culminating work of the year. The walls seem only to increase and re-echo the noise. We absolutely demand in behalf of suffering humanity, that the abuse be stopped...