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...Next came the Thetis, manned by the celebrated red turbans of Old Harvard, which were greeted with immense applause...
...Harvards were loudly cheered the moment their well-known red handkerchiefs were seen. They are so well known it is useless to speak of them, only it is a matter of wonder where they acquired so much endurance; their stroke is considered to be the handsomest on these waters...
...extract from the Spirit of the Times on the regatta at Worcester, when Harvard beat Yale and Brown in 18.53, the uniform of the Harvards is given: "White shirts and red handkerchiefs...
...here we have certainly enough proof that Harvard wore in 1860 handkerchiefs of a color which the papers called red, - not an unnatural error at a time when magenta as the name of a color was little known beyond dry-goods' shops and the ladies. That these so-called red handkerchiefs were in truth of magenta, I have a pleasant reason for knowing, from having been made the object of some light feminine chaff about Harvard's taste in selecting so homely a color. In those days - as now indeed - we sometimes wore a straw hat with magenta ribbon...
...established color. The first race rowed by Harvard with another college was on Lake Winnipiseogee, August 3, 1852, when a crew from Harvard defeated two crews from Yale. At one time Harvard voted to adopt the color blue, but this seems never to have been carried into effect. Red or crimson was at first used, until four Harvard crews, bearing crimson, red, cherry, and magenta, raced at Cambridge, and the victorious crew went to Worcester to row Yale. As this crew wore magenta, the magenta was generally adopted...