Word: echoeing
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...raise an echo to his single...
...Harvard Echo of June 11 contains a long article on the marking system, in which the following gem is found...
...word have I altered in this rhetorically perfect specimen of composition; not a comma did I take away or add. Whatever "the grounds" may be which the Echo has for "surmising," until it is kind enough to state these "grounds," in print, it has no business to "surmise." For the present, it is sufficient to say, in order to prove the true value of such "surmising," that the course referred to is Latin II., and that the instructor in question is no other than Professor Greenough. We have witnessed many rude, unpardonable assaults of injudicious hotheads upon instructors, but that...
...Freshman Nine, that the Yale University Nine "played" with Princeton; that is, name a date when the Freshman can't play, and then "claim" the game because they (Harvard, '83) don't play it when it suits the Yale nine's pleasure. The Record also replies finally to the Echo's criticism on the Princeton business, by saying that the Echo's charge is not made in good English...
...Harvard College are as distinctive a mark of honor as the Cross of the Legion of Honor, and about as hard to obtain. Fired by the noble example of the Crew and the Nine, the various other organizations have held meetings and decided on their respective colors. The Echo Board, with their usual enterprise, were the first to assemble; and, amid hearty applause, it was decided that the ribbon should be of the subdued colors displayed on their shingle, - black, orange, and magenta, with the words "Harvard Echo" stamped in gilt letters on the front, - but on second thoughts...