"The Harvard Crimson" was one of many college newspapers founded shortly after the Civil War and describes itself as "the nation's oldest continuously published daily college newspaper", although this description is contested by other college newspapers. The "Yale Daily News", published daily since its 1878 founding except for breaks during World War I and II, calls itself the "Oldest College Daily". The "Columbia Daily Spectator", founded in 1877, claims to be the second-oldest college daily. "The Brown Daily Herald", established in 1866 and daily since 1891, claims to be the second-oldest college newspaper and fifth-oldest college daily. The "Cornell Daily Sun", launched in 1880, claims to be the "oldest independent college newspaper". "The Dartmouth" of Dartmouth College, which opened in 1843 as a monthly, calls itself the oldest college newspaper, though not the oldest daily, and makes a claim to institutional continuity with a local eighteenth-century paper called the "Dartmouth Gazette".