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In a letter to the CRIMSON last week, Henry A. Clark '74, one of the founding fathers, reminisced that The Magenta was the real origin of the CRIMSON. But "after two volumes were published, the President of the University informed us that magenta was not the College color, but crimson, and the publication after that information was entitled the CRIMSON. . . . We were without money or a designated place for its edition, and the undertaking was a venturesome one. . . . The last visit that I made to the University was in 1936 at the Tercentenary. . . . I was 93 years old on January 7. . . ."

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