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...following editorial is reprinted from the Harvard "Magenta" of April...
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining the proper Chinese dye, the shade gradually degenerated to magenta. For some years the college paper was called the "Magenta." Finally, however, the authorities revived the original shade and made it the official University color. The name of the paper was then changed to the "CRIMSON...
This issue of the CRIMSON, the first to be published from its new quarters on Plympton street, marks one of the greatest forward strides in the development of the publication. The CRIMSON, then under the name of the MAGENTA, was founded as a fortalghtly in 1878. Two years later, when the college colors were changed from magenta to crimson, the paper assumed its present name. In 1882, after an attempted consolidation with the ADVOCATE had fallen through, the CRIMSON became an eight-page weekly, instead of a twelve-page fortnightly. A year later a union was effected with the HERALD...
...benefit of all those who are celebrating with the CRIMSON its fortieth birthday tonight, and for the benefit of all undergraduates, a brief history of the paper has been compiled from the day the founders of the MAGENTA waited for the appearance of the first edition in the room of H. A. Clark '74, Stoughton 22, to the present...
...beginning was a slow and painful process, the paper being sustained by a few enthusiastic undergraduates who believed the college should have some newspaper publishing more news than did the Advocate and furnishing students with more journalistic experience. From 1873 to 1875 it struggled along as the MAGENTA, named from the college color of the day, after the analogy of the Oxford DARK BLUE...