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Invited as guest of honor to a London banquet, Professor Henry Edward Armstrong, 87, Ph. D.. LI. D., D. Sc., famed British chemist and oldest Fellow of the Royal Society, appeared in brown velvet jacket and bright magenta waistcoat with one mauve lapel, one blue. Chirped he: "I want to do everything that everybody else doesn't do. I am trying my hardest to overcome the indecent shyness of Englishmen...
Handkerchiefs, a crew race with Yale, and a hot sun combined 61 years ago in laughing about the change of the University color from magenta to crimson. To keep perspiration off their faces members of the varsity crew were handkerchiefs wound about the head and these happened to be crimson. The innovation struck the student's fancy with the eventual result that the color of the University was officially changed. The Magenta, the semi-monthly publication, became the Crimson...
...custom of laying down board walks during the winter season was half a century old. It was instituted by the Corporation in 1880 largely because of student agitation and of the editorial policies of the CRIMSON and its progenitor, the Magenta, whose columns for seven years warmly espoused the movement for plank walks...
What a maze of trenches and ice plains "our classic enclosure" once enclosed is apparent from the following editorial which appeared on January 24, 1873 in the first issue of the Magenta...
Last week it became known that if King George wants to be the only man in the world to own a "British Guiana, 1856, 1¢ magenta," it will cost him no less than $50,000. That is the price now set on the stamp by Philatelist Hind's widow, Mrs. Pascal Costa Scala, who last spring married a monument salesman who called to sell a tombstone for her husband's grave. Mrs. Scala announced last week that she would shortly take her valuable sliver of red paper to London's Royal Philatelic Society where prospective purchasers will have a chance...