Word: magentas
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...execution of the poem entitled Mutation, in the Union College Spectator, is better than the average. We learn that Union College has decided on garnet for its color. There will now be no reason why they should not retain their magenta...
...this connection, we are desired to correct a statement in the last Magenta. In Mr. Anderson's courses it is by no means certain that the marks will be determined solely by the results of the examination...
...that magenta has given way to crimson, we desire to make a suggestion of a practical nature. All who were at Saratoga last year, or at Springfield in '73, must have been surprised at the various shades that passed for magenta; in fact, it seemed true that verium et mutabile semper magenta. Of late the manufacturers have made less magenta than formerly, and only one American house, it is said, imported a regular line of magenta ribbons; naturally the ingenuous mercer sold any approximate shade as "Harvard's magenta," and that misty notion of colors in general, and magenta...
WHEN the College color was changed, the question at once arose as to whether this paper should shed the discarded Magenta, and don the more popular crimson. We announced in our last number that a decision would be speedily made, and the title at the head of the page indicates the nature of that decision...
...considerations that led us to this step are very patent. The magenta is not now, and, as was shown in the meeting, never has been, the right color of Harvard; accordingly the name, as applied to the paper, would be a mere vagary, or, worse, a solecism, in case another college should adopt magenta as its color. The general diffusion of the fact that crimson is Harvard's color will be somewhat difficult, and the difficulty would probably be increased if a paper existed at Harvard called the Magenta. The reasons that led the founders of the paper to choose...