The University Color.

A curious incident has been recalled which may be of interest to many. Several years ago a discussion arose between the university and a college located farther west as to the prior claim to the color which distinguished Harvard, and which was then called magenta. Of course the usual amount of college newspaper squabbling ensued, and for a time it was impossible to settle the dispute amicably. The western college at last declared most solemnly and officially that magenta had been selected by them as a college color in 1857, when the whole controversy collapsed at the reply of Harvard that the battle of Magenta was not fought until 1859.