Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...founders of the paper to choose Magenta as its name now dictate a change of that name to the Crimson. It was not the intrinsic value of the name, but its suggestiveness that recommended the Magenta, and so the paper was named, after the analogy of the Dark Blue, and other University papers. We believe that a title which at once localizes the paper among our exchanges as being issued at Harvard, and which calls up in the minds of undergraduates the entire body of interests of the University is most in consonance with the tendency and policy...
...confine themselves to reading the Nation every week and to adopting its opinions, so that there is very little originality shown, and, worse than that, we are very apt to be imbued with the gloominess of that excellent paper, which has so strong a fancy for looking at the dark side of a picture. This is very unfortunate, for it is mournful to think of the future of a country whose educated men, before they begin life, look upon the best political career as an endless struggle against corruption and ignorance. On this account, and from their lack of training...
Seems their converse low and dark...
...dark day he got a cold...
...College will immediately follow the Weld Club's example. The adoption by the boat-clubs of another permanent distinguishing mark has been suggested. In the Library is a card on which are printed in colors the flags of the various college boat-clubs of Oxford University; with the dark-blue flag of the University in the centre, these bright-colored flags have a very brilliant effect. It would be perfectly possible for the boat-clubs of Harvard to choose flags of a similar sort. Five flag-staffs could be erected on the boat-house. In the centre the great Magenta...