Word: crimsons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Editors of the Crimson...
Lastly, I wish to correct some impressions which the readers of the CRIMSON of March 9 would get. As a matter of history, let me first state that on the occasion of the so-called "riot" of last June, several sensational reports appeared in the Boston papers. As a result, the correspondents of the Post and of the Advertiser and Record were excluded from the CRIMSON office. I know not whether the Harvard correspondent of the Post wrote the account in that paper, but I do know that I, who am the Harvard correspondent of the Advertiser and Record...
...correspondence of the Post has since changed hands, the place being held by an editor of the CRIMSON. Since the correspondent of the Post is now allowed the privileges of the CRIMSON office, and incidentally, it seems, the distinction of being on one of the "best Boston papers," the correspondent of the Advertiser and Record is the only man outside the office. On the face of it, then, the attack made in the CRIMSON would seem pretty clearly to fall on me, or at least on me particularly. Against this I protest emphatically. I will match my spirit of loyalty...
...regard to the exclusion from the CRIMSON office last June of the representatives of certain Boston papers, the writer implies that this step was taken by the CRIMSON Board because it was thought that the reports of the baseball celebration were the work of the Harvard correspondents. This was not the case. The editors understood perfectly at the time that none of the reports were written by students. As they then took care to expain, it was intended to show those papers which had been most conspicuous in the past for the publication of similar articles that the CRIMSON considers...
...regular correspondents of the best Boston papers do their work in the CRIMSON office; some are members of the CRIMSON board; and we can answer for it that they use their best efforts to act only in a loyal spirit. It is not denied that the evil condemned does exist, and no one deprecates it more sincerely than does the CRIMSON and many of the correspondents themselves. But to read the condemnation of this writer one would imagine that the entire staff of correspondents was disloyal to Harvard. In this way the article is too sweeping and does not discriminate...