2d. In an extract from the Spirit of the Times, referring to the Beacon Cup regatta, it is said:-

"The Harvards were loudly cheered the moment their well-known red handkerchiefs were seen. They are so well known it is useless to speak of them, only it is a matter of wonder where they acquired so much endurance; their stroke is considered to be the handsomest on these waters."

3d. In an extract from the Spirit of the Times on the regatta at Worcester, when Harvard beat Yale and Brown in 18.53, the uniform of the Harvards is given: "White shirts and red handkerchiefs."

Now here we have certainly enough proof that Harvard wore in 1860 handkerchiefs of a color which the papers called red, - not an unnatural error at a time when magenta as the name of a color was little known beyond dry-goods' shops and the ladies. That these so-called red handkerchiefs were in truth of magenta, I have a pleasant reason for knowing, from having been made the object of some light feminine chaff about Harvard's taste in selecting so homely a color. In those days - as now indeed - we sometimes wore a straw hat with magenta ribbon, and some old faded magenta cravats made by the chaffers might possibly be found in forgotten boxes. It is highly probable that the oarsmen of about '60 have preserved as trophies their handkerchiefs so often worn to victory, and although the shade might not be exactly the same fashion to-day calls magenta, it would be found to be substantially the same, and evidence enough could be procured that it was at that time called magenta.

"Claudite jam rivos, pueri." Shut up, you old boy! The pen grows garrulous on the old theme of Harvard's triumph, and the memories recalled by her colors borne to the front so often in the summer of 1860.

GRADUATE OF 1860.