Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early Magenta had an easier time of it than its successors, however, since it appeared only fortnightly and could concentrate on perfection and literary merit rather than spot news. During this time the paper was assembled in leisurly fashion after a meeting of editors in the President's room, where the efforts of the board were revised by two members and then shuttled off to a printing company in Boston...
...paper had become a weekly, but the harried atmosphere of news reporting was not apparent until the rival Harvard Herald began putting out extras on sports events which Boston papers credited with being "the fastest ever known in the newspaper world." The more staid CRIMSON met this threat to supremacy by amalgamating with the Herald in a bargain which gave the CRIMSON every conceivable advantage, and henceforth it became a daily...
...paper was still virtually home less, occupying a single room in the Lyceum building and publishing, according to a former editor, "in a happy-go-lucky fashion where at least at much time was devoted to punches and jolly fellowship as to work." But by the end of the eighties a sterner spirit had overtaken the board, and the social and alcoholic functions were abandoned in favor of more serous and better organized journalistic effort...
...degree of permanence replaced the hand-to-mouth operations of the CRIMSON with the founding of the Crimson Printing Co. in 1893. Its two owners, endowed with an unusual degree of patience and fortitude, received the paper's printing contract that year and have maintained it from that time to this. The following year a press within the building was added to the CRIMSON's facilities, a potent factor in subduing the upstart Harvard Daily News...
...because the dominant policy over the years is a thoughtful and energetic and rather confident approach to local and broader matters. All of the readers have not agreed all of the time with what has been written on all subjects, yet from my first recollection of the paper, before we entered World War I, through efforts to maintain international peace and to defend our outspoken professors from outside interference, down more recently to specific advice on how a liberal should cast his national vote, the "policy" has been to admit as much freshness of thought as the Board could develop...