Word: facts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Junior. O yes - no! The fact is, I lost money...
...University has undergone some very important changes since we spoke of them two weeks ago. The positions of the men are now announced as settled upon; but (much as we long to see the crew made up) we trust that this will not prove to be the fact. That Otis is the best man for stroke we have little doubt, but we question seriously the policy of placing Wetmore No. 2, and changing two of the strongest men in the boat over to the side they are not accustomed to row on. Bacon and Taylor may be able...
...that magenta has given way to crimson, we desire to make a suggestion of a practical nature. All who were at Saratoga last year, or at Springfield in '73, must have been surprised at the various shades that passed for magenta; in fact, it seemed true that verium et mutabile semper magenta. Of late the manufacturers have made less magenta than formerly, and only one American house, it is said, imported a regular line of magenta ribbons; naturally the ingenuous mercer sold any approximate shade as "Harvard's magenta," and that misty notion of colors in general, and magenta...
...exchanges, remain happily ignorant of; we mean the wholly imaginary light in which Harvard is represented as regarding her emancipation from the old system of required studies into the civilization of electives. To quote an exchange on this advance, "It is a pretty well understood fact that Harvard has made nothing by the change, and that she would be glad to retreat if such a thing were possible." If we had tried to make a glaring misstatement it would certainly have puzzled us to hit wider of the truth. We not only regard our elective system...
...shown in the meeting, never has been, the right color of Harvard; accordingly the name, as applied to the paper, would be a mere vagary, or, worse, a solecism, in case another college should adopt magenta as its color. The general diffusion of the fact that crimson is Harvard's color will be somewhat difficult, and the difficulty would probably be increased if a paper existed at Harvard called the Magenta. The reasons that led the founders of the paper to choose Magenta as its name now dictate a change of that name to the Crimson...