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...Crimson marks seventy years of continuous publication. The peace and war, prosperity and depression, cynicism and faith, liberalism and conservatism of these years are captured on its pages. The course of American history is traced in the musty bound volumes of past papers. Only a few years before the Magenta first saw the light of day, came the war between the states. The newly-born publication gazed on the so-called "reconstruction" of the Union, the abuses and debauchery that marked the spoliation of a great opportunity. Today the Crimson defends the position of minorities, in this national...
...College would lay plank walks in the Yard. . ." ". . . We have recently heard many complaints from the members of '74 of the sudden disappearance from the College Library of the books which contain the subject-matter of their themes. . ." With these weighty pronouncements did the CRIMSON's oldest ancestor, the Magenta, break upon the Harvard scene on the morning of January...
...Magenta caught on. It was essentially a literary magazine, but realized than the Advocate had the edge on it in that field, and the editors therefore tried to give it news value as well. There was one column of news headed "Brovities," and important events received editorial comment. But the main bulk of the magazine was made up of stories, essays and articles of all kinds, ranging from education in France, to "soulful effusions on Persian poetry...
They called at the Magenta because they thought that was the College's Color, but in May 1875 a meeting of all departments of the University solemnly voted that the color be crimson. The Magenta editors had once asked indignantly how it could possible "designate itself by the uneuphonius name of "The CRIMSON," but they had to eat their words...
...When the Magenta was printed that morning it was a small, two column, fortnightly pamphlet, which contained editorial comment, essays, poetry, and gentle satire. Competition and the passing years changed is slowly, first to a weekly and finally to a daily. It's name kept changing, too, and the five-column Crimson of today came only...