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...crimson Harvard’s official color...
...Boston City Regatta on June 19, 1858, tutor Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, and later a Harvard president, hurried with another member of the crew team to buy six Chinese silk handkerchiefs of a red hue. The impulsive purchase proved to have enormous repercussions for the color of the uniforms of football players, diplomas and “future Harvard graduate” T-shirts worn by toddlers for years to come. It would start Harvard down a rocky red road that left magenta and garnet by the wayside before settling on the now-ubiquitous crimson as the school?...
...sporting events,” according to Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who teaches Religion 1513, “Harvard: Five Centuries and Eight Presidents,” a course on Harvard history. When these particular handkerchiefs were drenched in sweat, they took on the color of blood. “The color of blood is true crimson,” Gomes says...
...Book of Harvard Athletics. Frederic C. Crowninshield, Class of 1866, who was a cousin of the rower who bought the original kerchiefs with Eliot, wrote in 1865 that students could not find crimson because magenta was so in vogue, and thus had to buy the more popular color, “though abhorring it.” The baseball team went magenta in 1863 and the football team soon followed suit, as did a school newspaper that dubbed itself The Harvard Magenta in 1873. “Magenta was Harvard’s color in the popular mind...
...personal energy crisis. I can drain my mobile-phone battery dry in a day, my PDA craves a charge after 48 hours and my notebook computer beeps plaintively during the shortest airplane flight. The situation isn't getting better. Portable devices continue to sprout power-hungry features such as color screens and wireless communications capabilities. Yet the humble, overtaxed battery?without which no device would be portable?is evolving too slowly to keep...