Word: magentas
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this connection, we are desired to correct a statement in the last Magenta. In Mr. Anderson's courses it is by no means certain that the marks will be determined solely by the results of the examination...
...that magenta has given way to crimson, we desire to make a suggestion of a practical nature. All who were at Saratoga last year, or at Springfield in '73, must have been surprised at the various shades that passed for magenta; in fact, it seemed true that verium et mutabile semper magenta. Of late the manufacturers have made less magenta than formerly, and only one American house, it is said, imported a regular line of magenta ribbons; naturally the ingenuous mercer sold any approximate shade as "Harvard's magenta," and that misty notion of colors in general, and magenta...
WHEN the College color was changed, the question at once arose as to whether this paper should shed the discarded Magenta, and don the more popular crimson. We announced in our last number that a decision would be speedily made, and the title at the head of the page indicates the nature of that decision...
...President next called upon Mr. Parker C. Chandler of Williams, and at present of the Law School, as an ally of Harvard. Mr. Chandler spoke of his connection with college journalism; he said that although he could not claim to be either father or wet-nurse of the Magenta, he nevertheless considered that he had done something to bring it into existence by pointing out in the Williams Review the field for a new paper at Harvard. He concluded by reading a poem which appeared some time ago in the Advocate, and which described himself as the editor...
Several songs followed, and the toast, "The Magenta," was given; and replied to by Mr. Harcourt Amory. After Mr. Thayer, '78, had replied for his Class, the sentiment, "The Ladies of Cambridge," was answered by Mr. E. M. Wheelwright. His remarks were few, for he confessed his incapacity to treat the subject satisfactorily...