Word: magentas
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...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...
...editorial in a Magenta a few weeks after the formation of the plan of the present Dining Association, an attempt was made to give a reason why so few students - at that time only a hundred - had applied for seats in the Hall. This was attributed to a doubt on the part of students as to whether four dollars a week was a price that would insure good fare, and the suggestion was made that extra dishes should be supplied to those who were willing to pay for them. Four dollars was fixed as the minimum, with the idea that...
...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...
...shades was remarked by every one, and in consequence the universal and unanswerable cry was, "What is the true color of Harvard?" After this question had been inflicted upon us a few hundred times we began to look with admiration upon the peculiar advantages derived from a change of magenta to crimson, and it was a source of unalloyed pleasure to us to think of the committee that had been appointed and the rapid measures that they had taken toward deciding the true color. However, one experience of this kind is quite sufficient, and we earnestly hope and pray that...