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1873

The Harvard Crimson, founded in 1873, bills itself as the nation's "oldest continuously published daily college newspaper" and Cambridge, Massachusetts' "only breakfast-table newspaper." More than 25 of the paper's alumni have won the Pulitzer Prize, according to the paper's website.

1875

The legend goes that the tipping point between the two colors came at an 1875 regatta race with Union College of Schenectady, when both teams claimed magenta as their color.

1910

He eventually worked with Lewando’s French Dye House, in Watertown, MA, which protected the secret formula for decades (Harvard University Archives 1910).

In 1910 it became official: the Harvard Corporation designated crimson as the official color of the school in honor of Eliot.

2013

R. Leopoldina Torres is a former Communications Intern (summer 2013) and is pursuing an MLA degree in the Museum Studies Graduate Program at the Harvard Extension School.

2022

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