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This is the CRIMSON'S 77th birthday. On January 24, 1873, ten editors twirled their moustaches, totalled up their plus-fours, and greeted the first edition of the MAGENTA. The name did not quite fit at the top of the page, so they persuaded of the College to change its colors to crimson...
...change in Class Day procedure that continued was reported in the MAGENTA in 1873. "A noticeable feature at the Chapel was the substitution of stalwart Junior ushers for the armed policemen who used to guard the entrance to the parish church in Class Day mornings. The most belligerent freshman could find no excuse for a rush and everything is quiet and orderly." But there was a general flagging of spirits that year, for the reporter continued sadly to note that "it is evident that the interest in Class Day is slowly dying out, and that either something must be done...
...Europe last summer, General Manager Edward Johnson* thought he had found the right singer: magenta-mopped Bulgarian Soprano Ljuba Welitsch, of the Vienna State Opera. Last spring, when pudgy little Fritz Reiner left the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a huff, Johnson knew he could get the right conductor, too. Even 84-year-old Composer Strauss agreed with that. From Montreux, Switzerland, he wrote to Reiner, who had first conducted Salome under his stern gaze in Dresden 33 years ago: "That is good news. There are plenty of others who can do Brahms and Bruckner. Opera needs men like...
...CRIMSON, at that time the Magenta, was trying to push an annual football game between Harvard and Yale. This materialized for the first time in 1875 when the Crimson won the first contest in the newly-started series...
Rules in those days varied with each team. Magenta sports editors were a little confused about the rules on "players picking up the ball and then being chased." But even without Bill Bingham, rules and regulations were soon worked...