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...Mother Advocate found before her the "pleasant though unexpected task--one, however, none the less pleasant from its unexpectedness--of welcoming to the green fields and pastures new of college literature another aspirant for favor," and it was a very courteous greeting that she extended to the young "Magenta." If the child is father to the man the two are often strangely dissimilar. . . . But if the present paper and its editors inherit few features or characteristics from 1873 they do inherit--at least on such formal occasions as birthdays--the excellent good will of Mother Advocate...
...speech of particular interest will be that by Mr. Henry C. Merwin '74, who was one of the founders of the CRIMSON. Mr. Merwin was one of the two men who first published "The Magenta" in 1873, a sheet which is the predecessor of the present paper. President Lowell will be the final speaker of the evening...
...Harvard CRIMSON was fifty years old on January 24, 1923. The paper was originally founded as a fortnightly called the "Magenta" in 1873 by ten members of the class...
...Henry C. Merwin '74, who was one of the ten men who published "The Magenta" in 1873, a sheet which shortly became the University paper, will speak next. His talk will include an account of those days of trouble in 1873 when the success of "The Magenta" was very much doubted...
...first two chapters by Charlton MacVeagh '24, take up the history of the paper from its conception as the Magenta in 1873 through its early development to 1906, with the intent of showing the general tendencies and accomplishments of this period, rather than of repeating the detailed account that was published in 1906. The remainder of the book covers the more recent history of the Crimson, which has been divided into four-year periods and written by men who were in close touch with the activities of the paper during this time...