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...philosophize, I will be read, was the motto of the Magenta, the ancestor of the present CRIMSON. And for practically 53 years the Magenta and later the CRIMSON have been read. read widely, by three generations of Harvard students. Since its first publication by the members of the Junior class on January 24, 1873, what is now the University daily has held an important part in Harvard life, functioning first as a literary fortnightly, then as a weekly newspaper, and finally as the daily which it is today...
...early days the CRIMSON--the name Magenta was abandoned in May, 1875--could not have been called a newspaper. Appearing alternate weeks with the Advocate, the college literary magazine then as now, the CRIMSON devoted little attention to he news of the day. A column enitled "Brevities" and considerable space in the editorial column was all the notice current events received. In 1878, to be sure, one of the CRIMSON editors was put in charge of a column on amateur sports, but otherwise the magazine differed little from the Advocate...
Musty records of old University sports show that the first Harvard football "H" was worn by the Crimson, then really the Magenta, in a game played against Tufts on June...
...Harvard "ten" which played McGEI University on Jarvis Field in 1874, the first team to represent the University in football, did not wear the letter. Their uniform consisted of ordinary civilian long trousers, white undershirts, and they also wore Magenta handkerchiefs bound around their heads...
...CRIMSON that got out this extra, but its forerunner in the daily field, the Harvard Daily Herald. At that time, 1882, the CRIMSON, which had started ten years before, under the name of the Harvard Magenta, was a weekly. A year later it was to combine with the Herald and become a daily...