Word: colors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Thursday evening a meeting of members of all the departments of the University was held in Holden Chapel, to discuss the question of changing the color of the University. Mr. Watson, President H. U. B. C., occupied the Chair, and Mr. G. W. Greene was chosen Secretary. A motion was made by Mr. Clark, '75, that "the color of all departments of the University should be declared to be Crimson." In the discussion which followed Mr. Van Duzer spoke in favor of retaining the Magenta, while Mr. Clark favored the change. Remarks were made by several other undergraduates...
...remarks made at the meeting held last evening to discuss the question of changing Harvard's color showed very clearly that a large majority both of graduates and undergraduates were in favor of the Crimson. The vote confirmed this impression, and accordingly Crimson...
...College Spectator contains an editorial upon the disputed magenta. It expresses the willingness of Union College to give up the color, but at the same time it insists that it is properly theirs by priority of adoption. In its anxiety to prove this priority, it declares that "in 1857, when colleges were choosing colors as a distinctive mark, Union chose magenta." A glance at the history of the time would have shown that the battle which gave its name to the color in question was not fought until June, 1859. If Union College chose the color two years earlier...
...rushed to my room, seized a match, and with true Herculean courage burned off my parasite completely. But alas! I soon found out that the real essence of a mustache and a hydra differs; for the former, to my chagrin, kept on growing as usual, and its color seemed to have gained in brilliancy from the fire-baptism...
...come off again. Once more I had to go through the painful transition-period, and a third engagement compelled me to shave it off again. I am now getting desperate. Shall not try it again, but I have sent for some extra-adhesive court-plaster, flesh color, which I am going to paste on my upper lip. Perhaps that will keep the mustache from growing. If it does not, my last hope is blasted, and all that remains is suicide...