Word: crimsons
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Week in and week out we suffer in our unventilated recitation and lecture rooms. Periodically the CRIMSON protests, while our instructors, forced to choose between asphyxia or competition with clattering steam pipes, either choose the former, or, without consideration one way or the other, stubbornly disregard the first rules of hygiene. Where clear thinking is demanded, clear air is the last consideration...
...Monday, October 10, 1898, the CRIMSON published the following editorial...
...Editors of the CRIMSON...
...notice in Saturday morning's CRIMSON, that a victory is ascribed to Johnson over Bryan in Friday's straw ballot. I wish to take issue with this misleading statement. As a matter of fact, Bryan received a big majority over Johnson from the Democratic voters. It is ludicrous, to say the least, to count Republican votes for Democratic nominees, unless a Democrat is given first or second place. To force a Republican to vote for two Democrats is something quite apart from actual politics; nor are Democrats supposed to vote for Republicans in an actual election. The mere fact that...
These words, beautiful in themselves, but long since forgotten, are the only memorial to our Harvard heroes. A year ago the CRIMSON suggested that their names be inscribed in the Union, and the current number of the Advocate takes up the matter anew. Memorial Hall, as its name implies, does honor to the heroes of the Rebellion. Shall there not even be some little tablet to remind us that in the lesser cause Harvard's sons were at the front...