Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shaded off into the new in the years before the War, when executives still changed every half year, but the paper adopted a new, more open format. Photographs became more of a rule and less of an exception, and extras were no longer confined to football results. President Eliot's retirement brought not only its best extra to date, but also its biggest scoop. Only the president, managing editor, business manager and printers knew that the patriarch of the Augustan age of Harvard was stepping down until the extra hit the streets. The paper also had the best word...
...paper was shocked out of its success when Fabian Fall '10 became the only Crimson president to commit suicide while in office...
During that period the financial state of the paper was strong under the leadership of George Gund '09, the businessmanager for whom the Graduate School of Design'sbuilding is named...
Through the spring of 1915 The Crimson ardentlyopposed involvement in the First World War. Later,the president reversed the paper's opinion, andthe paper encouraged students to take MilitaryScience courses. When a straw poll showed 70percent of the campus favored them, PresidentTheodore Roosevelt, class of 1880, responded witha letter to the paper, applauding the College'scommitment to "prepare our giant, but soft andlazy, strength...
...declaration of war in 1917 reduced TheCrimson to its knees as it struggled to put out adaily paper with a fraction of its previous staff.Former Crimson President W. H. Meeker '17 led thepaper's pressure for war, and was one of the 15editors who died in the trenches of France. Thepaper stopped publishing on June 7, 1918, butcontinued in the fall as a weekly, published bygraduate students. In January it returned to adaily schedule, and the business board slowlybegan to pull the paper...