Word: crimson
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I should like to ask, now that the old complaints about the library are flowing in, why we should not have all the use possible of the only reading room in college which is open in the evening? Why should the special reference library in United States history and political economy close at 9 o'clock? I do not suppose that the majority of the men who are to be found grinding there evening after evening retire at that hour. In fact I have heard a great many of them grumble at being obliged to leave...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Last year the subject of flooding Holmes Field was discussed in your columns at some length, and although the conclusion was reached that the scheme was practicable, the idea had been advanced so late in the winter that it was thought best to wait till this fall before putting the plan into operation. I take the opportunity of calling to mind this scheme thus early, that lack of time may be no impediment in the way of its active execution. The authorities of Cambridge agreed to furnish the amount of water necessary,-which it was seen, would...
...urged by men who had the interests of Harvard and of Yale at heart. Time and consideration were devoted by them to the attainment of the object in view, and there seemed to be fair reasons to believe that success would come in the venture. The Advocate and the CRIMSON joined in this movement and strenuously insisted on admittedly authentic information before anything of an adverse nature was even considered by them. The result was favorable. The Yale and Harvard base-ball teams met on more friendly terms than they ever had before, and indications pointed to a continuance...
...which John once figured with a crowd of "shtudents." To crown the glory which his little variety then procured for him, he pulled out of a hidden recess, a carefully tied up parcel, which he unrolled very gingerly, and at length displayed to the admiring audience a large crimson rosette with which he was going to decorate himself the following day. This brought down the house, (or rather the boat) and completed John's bliss. After a comfortable smoke on the deck, enlivened by a number of songs with jolly choruses, your correspondent turned in for the night...
...Thayer. '89, has resigned the secretaryship of the DAILY CRIMSON and H. O. Poor, '90 has been elected to fill his place...