Word: crimson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gift of the Association of Harvard Chemists to the Department of Chemistry which is announced in today's CRIMSON serves to bring to general notice an otherwise obscure group of Harvard men. Most Chemists have a habit of keeping pretty close to their laboratories and mingling with the immutable laws of nature rather than the variabilities of human social life. Any organization, however specialized, which brings these men together with others in their field is a step to helping them to a broader point of view. There are of course regular national and local Chemical societies, but an association purely...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be with held...
...Editor of the CRIMSON...
...very much surprised by the patronizing release made to The Boston American by Mr. Potter on the CRIMSON editorial concerning the Sargent murals. Everyone recognizes that as works of art they are disgraceful. Many critics feel that Sargent was a second-rate derivative artist throughout his life, but even his advocates admit that his last period was a long retrogression and that he reached the lowest depths in the Widener Library pictures. If Mr. Potter still has doubts on the subject, he might ask any member of the Fine Arts Department; even those who are most sympathetic toward Sargent...
...particularly applicable. I have been an editorial writer myself, and knew that nothing is easier and juicier than to be able to take a high-minded and critical 'one when somebody has told an unpopular truth. As for my younger brethren at Harvard, on the Crimson, in the 20 years since I was graduated, I have never once known the Crimson to fail to run true to form, a naive and charming and complete ignorance that thought can exist outside Harvard. . . ." Professor R. E. Rogers in the Boston Herald...