Word: herald-crimson
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...Echo failed after one term, leaving The Herald as the champion of daily news--but deeply in debt after the struggle. Its board voted to present a merger proposal to The Crimson, which eagerly accepted. Four days after Herald editors conceived of the idea, Harvard readers found themselves reading one daily paper, The Herald-Crimson, which would one year later change its name back to The Crimson...
...Daily Herald-Crimson appeared in October, 1883. One year later, the name was changed to The Harvard Crimson, and the paper ended its metamorphosis. Technologically, politically, and financially, The Crimson would change over the next 90 years, but the name and the rate of publication would remain the same...
...deficit. In this situation, and aware that the editors of the more established Crimson were eager to get into daily journalism. The Herald began to think of merger. On October 1, 1883, the board of The Herald met to discuss joining The Crimson. In the words of one editor: "After a thorough discussion of the project, a unanimous vote was passed to make arrangements for their union, if suitable terms could be arranged." The Crimson was eager, incredibly so, to make a union. The constitution of The Herald-Crimson was adopted on October 5, 1883, only four days after...
Under the terms of the merger, the President of The Crimson was named President of The Herald-Crimson; the Managing Editor of The Herald became Managing Editor of the new paper. It was also agreed, that, after one year, the name of the paper would be changed to The Crimson...
Once upon a time, when your grandmother was a twinkle in your great-grandmother's eye, shiny-shoed college journalists were busily putting together that masterpiece of the communications world known as the Herald-Crimson. Neglecting their studies, they composed rondos on the summer's passing, analyzed the progress of the football, the baseball, and the tug of war teams, and conceded the success of the Harvard Annex, an "experiment entered into with fear and trembling...