Word: echo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present senior class has been in college. Previous to '84's entrance, a feeling had rapidly been gaining ground that a daily paper in a large university like Harvard was both a possibility and a necessity. The year before '84 came to college this feeling became expressed in the Echo, which, although it died a natural death within a few years of its birth, did great good in the part it played, as the pioneer daily of Harvard. In the sophomore year the Herald was started, but the impossibility of having two daily papers, which depended largely for their support...
...well-bred man to be conversant with all famous authors. Education, therefore, consisted largely in a cramming process by which the student should become versed in the lives and writings of those men who had won the admiration of the world ; the proper method of testifying progress was to echo the praises which general use endorsed as appropriate. This was usually done without any genuine appreciation of the merits of the writers, resulting thus in a species of emptiness which left a clear path for the reaction which took place in favor of science. Second, the increase in the number...
However, as we stated, the college will support the freshman class if it thinks best to yield to Yale's autocratic demand and play in New Haven on May 24. And so, under the circumstances, we can heartily echo the wish of the News to stop all further discussion of the subject...
...sophomore year I was a member of the Institute of 1770. In my senior year of the Hasty Pudding Club. I was for a short time an editor of the ill-fated Echo. I have also been a member of the Alpha Delta Phi and O. K., and, among the special societies, of the St. Paul's, Art Club, Historical Society, and Harvard Union, having spoken occasionally in the last named society. While in the Institute I was secretary of the society for part of my term, and was also librarian of the St. Paul's in freshman year...
...Roxbury Advocate, Dillenback, '82, of the Boston Times and Yankee Blade, and Lummis, '81, of the Scioto Gazette are among the other journalists. Most of those enumerated were formerly on college papers. Cushing, Burton, Heilbron, Wingate, Bolles, Chase, Holman and Dillenback were all formerly editors of the Harvard Echo. Heilbron, Wingate, Chase and Coolidge are old editors of the Harvard Herald, while the Advocate claims Cushing and Firman, and the Crimson has but one representative, Fuller...