Word: crimsons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Long has it been the stately function of the CRIMSON to pry about in the collegiate world for cases where congratulations are due, and then solemnly to deliver those congratulations. Yesterday two clear cases urgently requiring such attention poked themselves upon our receptive consciousness, and we are glad to fill the breach...
...members of the University who purchased Victory Liberty Loan Bonds through the Cambridge Trust Company and who have not yet received their yellow receipts, must call for them at the CRIMSON Sanctum today. The office will be open from 6 to 8 o'clock this evening for the purpose of cleaning up all business and answering questions. Today will be the last chance to get these receipts...
...could almost weep at the puerility of the editorial writer who made the magnificent suggestion as to the distribution of debating medals in yesterday morning's CRIMSON. We had hitherto labored under the impression that the columns of the CRIMSON were not open to attempts at parody of the same type as the red and yellow leaflets recently distributed as samples of undergraduate literary genius. Evidently the writer of the editorial headed "Medals for All" is an aspirant for the same kind of notoriety...
Fairness is a good policy even in college journalism. The unnamed editorial writer in the CRIMSON seems to sneer at the bad fortune with which the University debating teams have met. It would be a safe wager that this writer has never attempted to participate in a debate, and he probably did not even attend the debate which brought on his laughable and amusing attempt at a display of immature wit. Does he know how much work a debate entails? Is it any worse to lose a debate than to be defeated in an athletic contest? Would he likewise suggest...
...CRIMSON, as a dignified college paper, should not lay itself open to criticism by countenancing unnecessary disparagement of any college activity. The University has perhaps been unsuccessful in other fields besides debating, but I venture to say that the editorial writer who found amusement in practising his original brand of sarcasm on debating, would not dare to do the same in regard to athletics. It might be good training for him to come out and try for the debating team next year. He would at least learn the wisdom of thinking before writing. He might come out of the debating...