Word: present
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SCENE, a room in H-lw-rthy. - TIME, the present...
...College rooms on the evening of publication. We have offered before to do this, but whether subscribers have feared to lose papers left at the door, or have been too indolent to send in their names, nothing has resulted. In case, however, the suggestion meets the wishes of the present subscribers, and a tolerably large number send in their names and numbers of rooms to P. O. Box 56, we will engage to have the paper delivered on publication...
...discover, no member of the present Freshman Class has been subjected to any ill treatment whatever; and an intimate acquaintance with the principles of the Sophomores justifies the statement that the leading men of the class are as thoroughly opposed to such proceedings as the Freshmen themselves could possibly be. We feel sure, then, that we shall meet with the approval of all concerned in the matter, when we solicit from any Freshman who has been forced to submit to any indignity whatever a full account of the whole affair, which we engage to publish as soon as its truth...
...alleged reasons for making this change was, that Harvard had no fixed color in magenta, but that great confusion resulted from the diversity of shades. This movement succeeded, the color was changed to crimson, and a committee of three appointed to determine the shade. Up to the present time, we have patiently waited for the spirit to move these gentlemen to declare themselves, but as the prospect of ever hearing from them has been growing beautifully less as time wears on, and we are no nearer a fixed standard than before, we think it highly necessary, by drawing attention...
...appointed and instructed to decide within a given time, and announce their decision to the College. This committee could go to N. L. Green, who imports largely for the trade, and also directly to order, select a color, and declare it as Harvard's color. Mr. Green, who at present furnishes ribbon for most of our societies, upon being assured of our patronage, would import this color, and supply it to students, and also dealers at the regatta, and by this means we should avoid having the almost endless variety of shades which are called "crimson" by the venders thurst...