Word: crimsons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Crimson invites all men in the University to submit signed communications of timely interest. It assumes no responsibility, however, for sentiments expressed under this head and reserves the right to exclude any whose publication would be palpably inappropriate...
...thirteen others. The upshot was that President Eliot and a fellow oarsmen were dispatched post-haste to Boston to supply the deficiency. The idea of brightly colored handkerchiefs occurring to them, the two entered a dry goods store and from a varied assortment of colored scarfs many selected Crimson as having the best visibility from a distance. Consequently Crimson Handkerchiefs were worn that day on the heads of the Harvard oarsmen and the hue came to be accepted almost at once as the University color...
...difficulty of obtaining the proper Chinese dye, the shade gradually degenerated to magenta. For some years the college paper was called the "Magenta." Finally, however, the authorities revived the original shade and made it the official University color. The name of the paper was then changed to the "CRIMSON...
Yale followed suit soon afterwards by adopting "true blue" and the idea spread rapidly. Thus, almost by accident, the University came into possession of its crimson standard and at the same time set a fashion that was to attain wide popularity among schools and colleges through the land...
Colonel Logan will find many supporters for the views which he presented in yesterday's CRIMSON. He is entirely right in his abhorrence of militarism. It is, nevertheless, not easy to see how an officer with his experience can advocate a return to the old "system" which has so often been a failure...