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When the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, applied to the CRIMSON for a description of the official Harvard color, we immediately prepared to reply that it was arterial red. Then it occurred to us that perhaps Calgary might know even less than we about that bloody shade of crimson. So the editorial shears were applied to a banner and a sample was sent speeding on its way to the Canadian border. We hope that this new college of the Canadian Northwest will thrive under the color which it has chosen.

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