Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...WRITER in the last Crimson complained of the action of the Faculty in refusing to allow English 2 and Greek 3 to be taken two years in succession. The Echo editorially says that he weakens his point by complaining of this action with regard to Greek 3, on the ground that this course is an easy one, in which the whole object desired is attained in one year. The instructor in Greek 3, however, especially encouraged men to take the course again, and so finish reading Herodotus. The course has been shown to be perhaps the most profitable Greek course...
...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...
...publish in another column a letter from a correspondent concerning a recent editorial article in the Harvard Echo, - a letter which we do not think is open to the charge of misrepresentation or malicious exaggeration. The Echo has a perfect right to criticise, in a courteous manner, any line of conduct that seems unjust; but it has no right whatsoever to insult an instructor who may have displeased some portion of the men in his elective. Both the matter and the spirit of the article in question call for the severest reproof from all who have any desire that...
After long and patient waiting, the soul-stirring strains of a Bach fugue, interspersed with variations from Haydn's Third Symphony, were heard, and presently the only, the inimitable brass band hove in sight, the bras being loaned, for this occasion only, by the Echo Board...