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...founded in 1873 as The Magenta--focused primarily on football games, with class schedules, ads and listings rounding out its scrawny pages. After a stint as The Harvard Summer News during World War II, the paper came of age, during the '50's with reasonably comprehensive coverage of the McCarthyiteonslaught on academic freedom. But the late '60's were when the growing Crimson began to bristle with the emotion and turmoil of the anti-Vietnam War movement (although its editorial position, as the book shows, wavered back and forth on the issue before climaxing with a full-blown statement...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: 14 Plympton St. | 3/7/1981 | See Source »

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