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...From the Treasurer's Statement we learn . . ." read the first words to emerge from The Magenta under that bravest of all battle flags, the one that reads Vol. 1. Issue 1. Early readers who had just descended from their mustache cups to their poached eggs that January morning in '73 learned in the next eleven lines of clipped prose that the Kirkland Fellowship fund had reached the level...
Seventy-five years ago the Magenta appeared in a college which stood at the beginning of a period that was to change it from a small classical institute into a world-famous university. Harvard was entering its golden age, the age of President Eliot, and already some of the changes could be noticed...
Organized crow had come a long way since the '50's, when the men would take the shell down the Charles to Boston every night in order to got drunk. It was through the magenta handkerchiefs the crew were around their heads that Harvard got its color and the new journal its name...
...politics, too, they were conservatives. During the Grant-Greeley Presidential campaign a few months before the appearance of the Magenta, the student body staged a torchlight campaign for Grant through Boston. An unexplained record has it that one Freshman carried a poster of Greeley suffering from the Horse Epidemic
Started in 1873 by a group of ten members of the class of 1874, it ran at first under the name of "The Magenta" as a fortnightly publication given over, in the main, to literary articles, but containing a summary of the more important University news. It continued in this name and form until 1875. The front page of today's pictorial is a facsimile of the front page of the first number...