Word: magenta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the prominent graduates who will attend the dinner of the CRIMSON this evening, is Henry Childs Merwin '74, the oldest living former editor of the CRIMSON, and a member of the original board of the Magenta, which first appeared in January, 1873. Mr. Merwin has had a long and distinguished career as a lawyer and author. For 21 years he was Legislative Counsel for the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Two of the best known books which he has had published are "The Life of Aaron Burr" and "The Life of Bret Harte". He has also written numerous articles...
Americans of 1925 are prone to think of Calvin Coolidge as unique among presidents for his taciturnity. That such is far from the case, however, is clear from an account of half a century ago in the Magenta, as the CRIMSON was called in its infant years, describing the Lexington and Concord centennial celebration of April 19, 1875. Only a Harvard cheer, "given by a party of undergraduates with great effect considering," was able to evoke from President Grant even "a faint motion of the risible muscles" on that historic occasion. If, as rumor has it, President Coolidge visits Cambridge...
...Magenta Eagerly Read...
...open to a grave charge, a suspicion which no ingenuity will palliate,--a charge directed against our sense of justice rather than the force of our intellect; a charge of unfairness. I have deliberated long before fully resolving to bring this notice to the readers of the Magenta. I know well how potent are the suggestions made in these columns; how eagerly they are read, and how promptly they are acted upon. But, fully conscious of the responsibility I take upon myself, I cannot refrain longer from pointing out this one-sidedness in the objects of our associations, and suggesting...
Other news of the week, according to the "Magenta" of fifty years ago included a meeting of the Freshman class in Holden Chapel to vote on the question of sending a crew to the intercollegiate regatta, a plan that was approved; the interesting statement that "Yale is interested in the welfare of our Chess Club;" the election of Mr. W. F. Weld as Captain of the Matthews Boat Club, and the election of A. L. Lowell to the second vice-presidency of the Cercle Francais...