Word: echo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work. First in favor is the amorous versifier. He sings in the abstract and therefore for all. His "Genevieve" is our "Genevieve;" in the beauty and grace of his love we see the ten-fold greater beauty and grace of our love. And so we applaud him to the echo and he walks before us with an added sense of his power and genius. And we steal his lines and post them as an offering to our love, no longer his. With pedantic pen and labored toil B. sings of the "Wail of the Whip-poor-Will...
...before the close of recitations for that recess. They bore this trial without grumbling; but now, as the mid-years approach, it is suggested that the same quick succession is to occur again. "An ounce of prevention, etc." is an old saying, but a very trenchant one; and we echo the wishes of all those who write sophomore themes when we beg that a respite of a week at least be given after the close of the mid-year examinations, before we hear sophomore theme VIII will...
...boasted that Buddhism even was a more perfect faith. An older companion proved by three questions that the would-be Buddhist knew nothing of either religion, and that his state of mind was purely a result of improper home-training. Yet semi-religious and multo religious papers still echo the cry of "Harvard irreligion!" Is it that our alumni are sceptics? More Harvard graduates to-day fill our prominent pulpits than the graduates of any two other colleges in the land. Is it that our teaching is purely secular? Why did we come to Harvard above all other colleges...
...first prize men. Passing over the circumstance that next year there will probably be no first prizes lost through mismanagement, as was the case with us last year, the call of the News for the services of every capable man whether a fine athlete or not, should find an echo in our columns, in behalf of our team...
...work in the face of greater odds than any Harvard crew has ever confronted. Its victory was hard earned and the more glorious on that account. We all felt the importance of the triumph when parading the streets of New London last June, and cheering to the echo the men who had sent the crimson to the front. Have the four months that have since passed driven from our minds all recollections of that day? We believe that the college will not follow the example of the proverbial republic and show itself "ungrateful." The dinner to be given the crew...