Word: echos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world laughs with you: and so it is when you sing. Apollo sang, and his worshippers joyously followed his example. Now the Glee Club sings, and the world of Harvard hums in sympathy. The Chapel, filled with the remembrance of many an austere hymn, tosses back the echo to the tall columns of Widener, until finally even the echo is silent, and the Yard sleeps with the refreshed memory of an old Harvard tradition...
...rare--still they attract the attention of undergraduates. And so, when Charlle Paddock comes to the Stadium this week, he need have no fear that his ninety-five records will attract only a handful of track men and a bored reporter. The Stadium will not give a hollow echo to the spikes, for herocpass, but some remnants of hero-worship are not to be destroyed even by a four-year course in indifference...
...variation of critical opinion concerning the performance which Conductor Gabrilowitch presented. The chorus, dressed in black, and the soloists, with a proper effort at perfection, voiced the humble and victorious sorrow of the music they were singing. The tricky imitations which alone delighted its first auditors, the vocal echo of a cock's crowing, were of course not emphasized. The score had been shortened from four and a half hours of playing time to two and a half. Critics agreed that the cuts and emendations had been wisely effected...
...again, some latter-day toper could be heard to gulp and sob, with regret that was not unmixed with remorse. When the little girl cries, "Father, dear father, come home with me now," it took a hardened sophisticate indeed to chuckle at her innocence. However ridiculous was this solemn echo of an ancient and silly sermon in melodrama, it was impossible not to realize that plays even more foolish have been played this very season, in Manhattan, with an intensity not intended to be comic...
...Hissing is the only sound in nature which makes no echo...