Word: crimsons
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...EDITORS OF THE CRIMSON...
...CURTIS, '84, has been elected Freshman Editor of the Crimson...
...late the Crimson seems to have furnished an object of attack to all the disputants of the University. Now we are perfectly willing to furnish occupation for these gentlemen, but we would like them to understand one thing which at present does not seem to be comprehended by them, - that is, that the Crimson board is not responsible for the sentiments expressed in the correspondence column. As long as a letter is decent, no matter whether the board concurs in the sentiments of the writer or not, it will be published. The editorials only are the expressions of the opinions...
...series of three letters written for the Crimson in January and February of last year, I pointed out some of the obstacles and dangers in the way of attempting to manage a Freshman race at New London within a week of the Harvard-Yale race, and argued that, if the Freshmen of Harvard ('82) insisted on rowing their projected race with Columbia, they would find it to their advantage to accept the offer of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen, which was then making a creditable (though, as the result has proved, an ineffective) attempt to establish an "American Henley...
...matter of present expediency. Let us pay, if possible, a little more attention to this important subject, and whenever the question is alluded to in lectures or recitations, let us have a fair-statement of the claims of both parties. We make this appeal not because we wish the Crimson to be regarded as a protectionist sheet, - such matters are, of course, out of the range of a College journal, - but from a spirit of fairness and justice to all parties, and the desire that Harvard should not be regarded, as it is at present, as a mere training school...