Word: magenta
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...Nine, the various other organizations have held meetings and decided on their respective colors. The Echo Board, with their usual enterprise, were the first to assemble; and, amid hearty applause, it was decided that the ribbon should be of the subdued colors displayed on their shingle, - black, orange, and magenta, with the words "Harvard Echo" stamped in gilt letters on the front, - but on second thoughts it was feared that the "personal influence" of this decoration would be too great, and the idea was abandoned...
...clip the following: Amherst, white and purple; Bowdoin, white; Brown, brown; Columbia, blue and white; Cornell, carnelian; Dartmouth, green; Harvard, crimson; New York, University of, violet; Pennsylvania, University of, blue and red; Princeton, orange; Rutgers, scarlet; Trinity, white and green; Tufts, blue and brown; Union, (magenta) or garnet; Wesleyan, lavender; Williams, royal purple; Yale, blue...
...some magenta handkerchiefs...
...have received a copy of the Archangel, from Oregon, addressed to the Magenta; the change in our paper's name is no longer a new story, and under ordinary circumstances we should expect it to be recognized; but this time we are forced to make allowances; for the Archangel has banished all secular considerations, and is devoting itself entirely to grief at the Pope's decease, or, as the Dartmouth would say, transition...
...frame. But it is not the same thoughtless little grisette, although at first you might pardonably mistake her for our old friend. She has the same fresh face and piquant way, she measures out yard after yard of the identical shade of crimson as her predecessor; she has her Magenta and Solferino, and now and then an April shower. If I ask her what she has read, she will break out laughing, - which speaks volumes. She never looks older, but every season, like a good standard novel, comes out in a new cover, - each more mysterious and complicated than before...