Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole nasty, hap-hazard business started on January 24, 1873, when a group of juniors produced the first issue of a semi-weekly journal called "The Magenta" (it became The CRIMSON two years later when the College's official color was changed). The tiny, 8 x 10 inch Magenta was primarily a literary magazine which relied heavily on the essay and ran about two poems per issue. It did print College news, however, and in 1878 added an athletic column and a "sporting editor...
...early CRIMSON had lots of competition; the Advocate, then a semi-weekly newsmagazine like the Crime, the daily "Harvard Echo," and the Daily Herald. In October 1883 the Crime and the Herald joined forces to emerge as the Herald-Crimson, then the Daily Crimson, and finally, in 1891, the plain-ole CRIMSON...
While its semi-official status and inertia helped in the triumph, the real here for the CRIMSON in the Journal battle was Arthur Hopkins. From 1929 right up to the present, linotyper Art has been the her of the nightly "Battle of the Bilge." It was he who took over when the green undergraduates left off in 1934 and he who saved the day for the Crime again during World War II. Few remember that his name was put at the top of the masthead as President one issue in 1935, but no Crimed will ever forget...
Dave Watts, Crimson captain and second man, defeated Blair Murphy, first man at Yale, in the first round with scores of 6-15, 15-8, 15-8, 15-6. But he lost to Squires in the semi-finals...
Ufford gained the finals by defeating Dick Stewart of Trinity in the first round 16-14, 15-13, 15-3, and Yale's Bob Dewey in the semi-finals...