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...Crimson did quite a bit of moving around before coming to rest at 14 Plympton Street in 1915. Its original home was Stoughton 22, a room which was convenient at least to Yard dwellers, well stocked with punch for the convivial Crimeds, and, if a surviving photograph is to be trusted, comfortable. One editor of the period reminisced about the social life of the room in a letter to the editors of the Fiftieth Anniversary book...
...wandered around Cambridge, evolving toward the day when it would find a permanent home on Plympton Street, The Crimson gradually grew into a recognizable fascimile of a modern newspaper. Those were the days of rugged individualism, and the particular rugged individuals who edited the paper concerned themselves with sports to a degree that would startle the modern reader. Harvard football and The Harvard Crimson celebrate their centennial in the same year; and, like children from the same neighborhood, they grew up together. In December of 1884, when the College's Athletic Council decided to outlaw intercollegiate football because...
...women have written for its pages, conducted its business and forged its image. Throughout, the underlying principles of The Crimson have not yielded to time or pressure. As The Crimson enters its second century, editors past and present can vow to ensure that these principles are preserved at 14 Plympton Street...
...other's character defects, stories the paper had missed, the ineptness of the candidates, and, more and more frequently, the number of mistakes the paper had made. As the years passed, the level of rhetoric escalated, humor disappeared, and, an observer teeis, only some miracle prevented bloodshed at 14 Plympton Street...
Some of, the Crimson's best talent walked out of the Sanctum after the election never to return. Tempers had run high, and the election had swung on a few key votes. Some of the business board's electors had not been seen on Plympton Street for months. After the decision, eleven editors departed to found their own paper...