THIRTY U. S. COLLEGES BOAST CRIMSON AS OFFICIAL COLOR

No less than thirty colleges in the United States beast the "flaming crimson" as their college colors, according to latest spectral statistics compiled by the 1939 World Almanac.

However, only Grove City College of Grove City, Pennsylvania, New Mexico College of Agriculture, and Transylvania University, of Lexington, Kentucky, have adopted the color straight. All the others claim two colors. There are seven crimson and grays, six crimson and whites, four crimson and golds, and a handful of crimson and blacks, blues, and a solitary yellow.

Howard University, of Washington, D.C., has a newspapers entitled, exciting enough, the Howard "Crimson." Other information of interest is that Beddington is the only institution without a college color, while Radcliffe's is listed as "Cherry Red."