Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suit was also the most public the paper has experienced, sparking unflattering press in the national media and catalyzing campus concern about The Crimson's handling of minority student issues...
...determination of the 10 men who founded what was then called The Magenta remained with the paper through these travails, allowing it to beat out competition, win over the administration, scoop the nation and survive as Cambridge's Breakfast Table Daily...
...earliest version of today's Crimson was born on Jan. 24, 1873, publishing as a bi-weekly under "The Magenta" banner. (The paper changed its name two years later when the College changed its color.) It was a thin layer of editorial content surrounded by a thinner layer of advertising. It barely scraped through the 70s, sometimes requiring its editors to pay for the printing costs themselves. But at the beginning of the 1880s it found itself on more solid financial footing...
...after one term, leaving The Herald as the champion of daily news--but deeply in debt after the struggle. Its board voted to present a merger proposal to The Crimson, which eagerly accepted. Four days after Herald editors conceived of the idea, Harvard readers found themselves reading one daily paper, The Herald-Crimson, which would one year later change its name back to The Crimson...
Over the next two decades The Crimson made athletics an editorial priority, bemoaning the lack of participation in the early part of the century and forming its own teams. After the merger, the paper began to see fewer extras, but the sports board turned the trend around. The Crimson had post-game extras on the street just minutes after the game was over. When football seemed on the brink of demise, The Crimson ran an aggressive editorial, petition, and donation drive to save the sport...