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The Purple, December 1907

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• The Message of the Bells
• Farewell to Autumn
• The Man Before the Gun
• The Power of an Ideal
• A Dream of June
• In the Dawn
• A Purist
• A Noteworthy Publication
• Mandy's Grave
• The Carollers
• The Scenes of Long Ago
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, November 1907

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Virginia
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich - His Life and Poetry
• All Soul's Day
• Fred Hughes, Quitter
• Souls in Purgatory
• The Story of a Snowflake, or Rather of Two
• The Autumn That I Know
• Two Letters
• "Dute"
• A Western Farmer Before the Turkey
• Holy Cross Night
• Under the Rose
• The Landlubbers
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Purple, October 1907

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Service Beautiful
• The Visit of Cardinal Gibbons
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

July 23, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets about her vacation trip from where she was staying in Tokyo to several different places around Japan. She writes of her stay in a Japanese style hotel. She also writes about the scenery around her, and about how long it takes her by rail to get to her travel destinations. She also writes of a traveling companion named George, and how she has invited Abbie to come and visit her and meet George.

The Purple, June 1907

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Commencement
• John Henry Newman
• A Spring Morning
• "Fatty"
• Louis Pasteur
• A Flyer in Stocks
• Rob Roy
• In Memoriam
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• The Reception to Cardinal Gibbons
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

April 11, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets about life in Japan. She writes about the climate, and how she finds she cannot do as much due to the "enervating" nature of the climate there. She describes a "sword walking" ceremony, in which one climbs a ladder made of swords. She then writes of the beginnings of spring in Japan and how there is a fair coming to Japan, "the largest ever held in Japan."

The Purple, April 1907

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Spring
• Mangan and His Poetry
• As Horace Says
• The Birth of the Daffodil
• The Chivalrous Chauffeur
• The South Wind
• To James S. Sullivan, M. D.
• The Poet
• On Holy Thursday
• Spring Thoughts From Horace
• A Hidden Sense
• The New-Born Rose
• Briefs
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Purple, March 1907

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• To an Easter Lily
• Macbeth
• The Office Boy
• A Poet-Priest
• A Son of Erin
• Difficulties
• "Causes Leading to the Perfection of French Classic Prose"
• The Awakening
• A Reminiscence
• Briefs
• Sunset
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Purple, February 1907

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Edgar Allan Poe - An Appreciation
• The Cousins
• Gifts
• The Tailsman
• A Degenerate
• Briefs
• Editorial
• Resolutions
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

January 18, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Abbie writes to Mrs. Tibbets about the "glorious" scenery where she is staying. She writes of the mountains, streams, tall oak trees, and blossoms as the season changes from winter to spring.

The Purple, January 1907

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Two Inaugurations
• Little Jim
• At Sunset
• The Comic Elements in the Duo Captivi
• The Days of Old
• The Doctor's Second Call
• The Advertising Poet
• The Boston Alumni Association
• Obituary
• Briefs
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Hanging Of The Crane, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur Ignatius Keller, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

30 ℓ. : 13 leaves of plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title in green and black within ornamental border; decorations; initials in color. "Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Designs by Florence W. Swan." Book in poor condition, loose pages, in binder.

The Rivals, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Brander Matthews, M. Power O'Malley, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Merrymount Press

xxxviii, 131 pages, [18] leaves of plates : frontispiece (hand colored), plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. A play. Green cloth binding, decorations and lettering stamped in gold, signed by the designer: M.A. [Margaret Armstrong]. "Composition and electrotype plates by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston"--Title page verso. Publishers paper dustjacket in mylar cover. Gift of Selma Ordewer, in memory of Daniel Berkeley Bianchi.