TO PUBLISH CRIMSON 50 YEAR BOOK IN MAY

Marking fifty years of college publication, the HARVARD CRIMSON BOOK will be published this coming May. On January 24, 1873, the class of 1874 undertook the publication of the first issues of a fortnightly called the Magenta, so named on account of the existing college color. In 1891, however, with the colors changed to crimson and white, the paper assumed its present title. The year 1923, therefore, will be the fiftieth anniversay of the founding of the CRIMSON.

The book, containing some 250 pages and bound in cloth, will be essentially modelled on the CRIMSON BOOK published in 1906. The new volume will included a complete catalogue of past and present editors with their college activities, war and public service records, and present occupations; a history of the development of the paper covering the fifty year period from 1873 to 1923; about thirty cuts showing successive stages in advancement in plant, typical front pages of the past compared with the present five-column sheet, and a representative front page of the recently established biweekly pictorial supplement.

The board of editors consists of Lawrence Rose '23, Robert Worthington '23, and R. A. Cushman '23. Publication will be in the hands of the Harvard University Press, while typography and general makeup will be under the supervision of Mr. Bruce Rogers. The price of the volume has been set at $3.50.

Of the five hundred questionnaires sent out to graduate editors in October, three hundred and fifty have already been returned, a large number of which contain many interesting sidelights on the work of former years. The editors hope to send the book to press about the middle of January in view of its publication next May.