Word: magenta
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dinner this evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Trophy Room of the Union. At the banquet the members of the present board will entertain about thirty former editors, some of whom were on the board when the CRIMSON was known as the Herald and still earlier as the Magenta. Among the guests, who will number nearly sixty, will be several members of the Faculty, Mr. W. D. Sullivan '83 of the Boston Globe, representatives from the daily papers of the larger colleges, and the Student Council. P. M. Henry '09 will act as toastmaster and will call...
...Magenta"--Barrett Wendell...
...evening at 7.30 o'clock. Ninety acceptances of the invitations sent out have been received, and this year, departing from the custom of former years, thirty-five prominent undergraduates have been invited. Among those attending will be the present board, former editors of the paper or its predecessors the Magenta and the Herald, and several members of the Faculty, together with the invited speakers...
...CRIMSON is thirty-five years old today. We have developed from the fortnightly Magenta of 1873, through toil, financial difficulty and competition, to what you see us now--a daily paper of the undergraduates, attempting to represent fairly their many enterprises and to voice without prejudice their views. We unite today in entertaining, as best we are able, the graduates who have gone before us, whose efforts alone made possible the CRIMSON and placed it where it stands today...
After a humorous talk by S. Ervin '08, in which he outlined the policy of the Junior board for next year, Mr. H. C. Merwin '74, one of the original board of the "Magenta," briefly described the origin and character of that paper. There is a great contrast between our time and yours, explained Mr. Merwin. We had no office, no sanctum, nor any visible means of support, and there were only nine editors, including the business editors. Although there were too many publications at the time we started, we decided that the character of the Advocate had become...