Word: crimson
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Everyone who heard Professor Lowell's speech at the CRIMSON dinner Friday night was impressed by but one thing--that in reality the Faculty and undergraduates are not strictly in conflict of views; that their aims are similar and their methods opposed. The time has come when it is no longer of any use to stand off and shout our own views, while the Faculty springs a periodic surprise in the form of a blow at intercollegiate athletics. This unfortunate controversy, that is doing Harvard so much harm throughout the country, must be stopped now! There...
...Faculty, the third party to the controversy, is far from unanimous in the stand it has taken. And yet, as far apart as the two poles stand the Faculty and undergraduates. When they chance to compare views in person, as at the CRIMSON dinner, both sides are convinced of the possibility of a satisfactory solution. Why, them, cannot a solution be reached? We are more than ready to do our share; we want only to be met halfway, and in the same friendly spirit that is now characteristic of at least the undergraduates' side of the argument...
...congratulations to the team that brought Harvard another debating victory. Although we have yielded first place to Princeton in the intercollegiate debating world, we are still among the leaders in the art of argumentation. It is the CRIMSON'S desire to see debating at Harvard soon placed on a sounder and more representative basis, which will bring us back to the place of pre-eminence we held so long. May last night's victory be but the forerunner of such movement and such a result...
...Editors of the CRIMSON...
...CRIMSON is thirty-five years old today. We have developed from the fortnightly Magenta of 1873, through toil, financial difficulty and competition, to what you see us now--a daily paper of the undergraduates, attempting to represent fairly their many enterprises and to voice without prejudice their views. We unite today in entertaining, as best we are able, the graduates who have gone before us, whose efforts alone made possible the CRIMSON and placed it where it stands today...