Word: herald-crimson
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Once upon a time, when your grandfather 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 tennis, and conceded the success of the Harvard Annex, an "experiment entered into with fear and trembling...
...hour was ripe for another daily, and in 1882 the first issues of a vigorous new paper, the Harvard Journal, appeared. The CRIMSON and the Journal took an early liking to each other, and in 1883 the two merged as the Herald-Crimson, then later the Daily Crimson, and finally in 1891, simply the CRIMSON...
...early CRIMSON had lots of competition; the Advocate, then a semi-weekly newsmagazine like the Crime, the daily "Harvard Echo," and the Daily Herald. In October 1883 the Crime and the Herald joined forces to emerge as the Herald-Crimson, then the Daily Crimson, and finally, in 1891, the plain-ole CRIMSON...
...argument for co-education at Harvard than this. With athletics abolished or practically nullified the co-educational student will arise in her persuasive might and assert her claims as a collegiate guardian of good morals and good order. Such will be the Harvard of the future. --reprinted from the HERALD-CRIMSON February...
...name was changed to "The Crimson", but it remained a fortnightly publication until 1883, when it absorbed "The Harvard Herald", then some two years old, and became a dally under the name of "The Herald-Crimson". In 1891 the paper assumed its present name, "THE HARVARD CRIMSON...