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...Magenta" is a weekly comedy of errors edited by a crowd of hoodlums...
...ship owners of the British Commonwealth are seeing snakes- not the pink snakes which consort with orange toads, purple salamanders and magenta tarantulas-but sea snakes with long green bodies, gliding through great billows of discontent with only their heads sticking out-heads with red hoods, with the flittering tongue of Trotzky and the penetrating eyes of Lenin...
Among the prominent graduates who will attend the dinner of the CRIMSON this evening, is Henry Childs Merwin '74, the oldest living former editor of the CRIMSON, and a member of the original board of the Magenta, which first appeared in January, 1873. Mr. Merwin has had a long and distinguished career as a lawyer and author. For 21 years he was Legislative Counsel for the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Two of the best known books which he has had published are "The Life of Aaron Burr" and "The Life of Bret Harte". He has also written numerous articles...
Americans of 1925 are prone to think of Calvin Coolidge as unique among presidents for his taciturnity. That such is far from the case, however, is clear from an account of half a century ago in the Magenta, as the CRIMSON was called in its infant years, describing the Lexington and Concord centennial celebration of April 19, 1875. Only a Harvard cheer, "given by a party of undergraduates with great effect considering," was able to evoke from President Grant even "a faint motion of the risible muscles" on that historic occasion. If, as rumor has it, President Coolidge visits Cambridge...
Other news of the week, according to the "Magenta" of fifty years ago included a meeting of the Freshman class in Holden Chapel to vote on the question of sending a crew to the intercollegiate regatta, a plan that was approved; the interesting statement that "Yale is interested in the welfare of our Chess Club;" the election of Mr. W. F. Weld as Captain of the Matthews Boat Club, and the election of A. L. Lowell to the second vice-presidency of the Cercle Francais...