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The Purple, November 1906

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:

• Autumn
• The Glories of the Thirteenth Century
• Autumn Days
• By the Sea
• "Thou Shalt Honor Thy Mother"
• Sad Autumn
• A Reverie
• To the Chrysanthemum
• "Thy Will Be Done"
• An Address to Autumn
• Briefs
• A Zephyr's Love
• Holy Cross Night
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Purple, May 1909

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 Fishing Feber
• The Turmoil of the Quiet Life
• The Veteran's Vision
• Hoist With His Own Petar
• Idleness
• Pipes o' Pompey
• Summeh's Heah
• Whimsicalities
• The Arrival of the Count
• A Breeze From the Mountains
• The Clock
• A Memory
• Our Unprized Treasure
• Tableaux
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, May 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:

• Matins
• The Comic Elements in the Duo Captivi
• The Reckoning
• An Appreciation of Virgil
• A Maker of History
• They Also Serve
• The Reflections of a Married Man
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Holy Cross: Symbol Of Victory And Sign Of Salvation (Research Materials), Holy Cross Libraries

Library Resources for Campus Events

A bibliography of resources available through the Holy Cross Libraries which provide additional information related to "The Holy Cross: Symbol of Victory and Sign of Salvationr," a lecture by Robin Jensen. The lecture was sponsored by the Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture as a 175th Anniversary Event and was held at the College of the Holy Cross on September 17, 2018.

Color Our Campus: A Holy Cross Coloring Book, Holy Cross Libraries

Holy Cross Bookshelf

To commemmorate the 175th anniversary of the College of the Holy Cross, the Holy Cross Libraries Outreach Team designed and created a coloring book using photographs from the College Archives and other sources. The images were edited using Adobe Photoshop® to create line drawings more suitable for coloring.

This project was co-sponsored by the Office of Alumni Relations. The Outreach Team of the Holy Cross Libraries and the Office of Alumni Relations are pleased to offer this coloring book, and hope it will bring hours of relaxing enjoyment as well as a nostalgic stroll down Linden Lane.

Drawing On Walls And Other Alliances, Barbara Merolli

Staff publications

How can the divide between science and the humanities be bridged? This article describes a series of collaborative art projects initiated by the science librarian at the College of the Holy Cross, who worked with faculty from Visual Arts and Creative Writing. Participating faculty were eager to help design opportunities that would highlight student work as well as form alliances with the libraries. These collaborations were innovative in that they brought together two academic worlds which don’t always have opportunities to mix with each other, generated other projects that drew non-traditional users into the science library, and, most significantly, enabled …

Exterior Of Dinand Gets A New Look, Evangelia Stefanakos

Civitas Branching Documentation

This article describes new art installations and landscaping which enhance the exterior spaces of Dinand Library at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

The murals, "Civitas Branching" and "Lungs of the Planet," are collaborative art projects created by students of the College and members of the Worcester community. They were installed in April 2016. A dedication ceremony was held April 20, 2016.

Lungs Of The Planet Presentation, Virginia Raguin

Documentation

This slide presentation traces the creative process of Lungs of the Planet, a tile mural depicting line drawings on individual 6 x 6 inch tiles, as well as larger color images of blossoms, fruit, and birds to symbolize the cycle of life.

The mural was created as a collaborative art project by students in the Natural World Cluster of the Monserrat First Year Program at the College of the Holy Cross. The project was led by Virginia Raguin, Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the College. Particpants included students, faculty, staff and community members.

The mural was installed on the west …

Dedication Ceremony For Two Murals Outside Dinand, Jack Godar

Civitas Branching Documentation

Article reporting the rededication of Civitas Branching, a 5-panel mosaic depicting scenes from the College Hill neighborhood, originally installed on the College Hill Civic Association building located at 79 Kendig Street in Worcester, Massachusetts and Lungs of the Planet, a tile mural installed on the west patio Rooftop Garden of Dinand Library.

Civitas Branching: Rededication Program, College Of The Holy Cross

Civitas Branching Documentation

Program for the rededication of Civitas Branching, a 5-panel mosaic depicting scenes from the College Hill neighborhood. The mosaic was created as a collaborative art project by students of the College of the Holy Cross and residents of the College Hill neighborhood in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was originally installed on the College Hill Civic Association building located at 79 Kendig Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.

In 2016, the mosaic was relocated to the east patio of Dinand Library on the campus of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. A rededication ceremony was held April 20, 2016. Several members …

Civitas Branching: Rededication Program Introductory Remarks, Jacqueline Peterson

Civitas Branching Documentation

Remarks given by Dean Jacqueline Peterson at the rededication of Civitas Branching, a 5-panel mosaic depicting scenes from the College Hill neighborhood. The mosaic was created as a collaborative art project by students of the College of the Holy Cross and residents of the College Hill neighborhood in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was originally installed on the College Hill Civic Association building located at 79 Kendig Street in Worcester. In 2016, the mosaic was relocated to the east patio of Dinand Library on the campus of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. A rededication ceremony was held …

History Of Civitas Branching, Susan Hunt

Civitas Branching Documentation

A brief history and description of Civitas Branching, a 5-panel mosaic depicting scenes from the College Hill neighborhood. The mosaic was created as a collaborative art project by students of the College of the Holy Cross and residents of the College Hill neighborhood in Worcester, Massachusetts.

History Of Lungs Of The Planet Mosaic, Susan Hunt

Documentation

A brief history and description of Lungs of the Planet, a tile mural depicting line drawings on individual 6 x 6 inch tiles, as well as larger color images of blossoms, fruit, and birds to symbolize the cycle of life.

The mural was created as a collaborative art project by students in the Natural World Cluster of the Monserrat First Year Program at the College of the Holy Cross. The project was led by Virginia Raguin, Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the College. Particpants included students, faculty, staff and community members.

The mural was installed on the west patio …

Holy Cross Students And Neighbors To Gather For Dedication Of Community Mosaic, College Of The Holy Cross

Civitas Branching Documentation

Press release announcing the dedication of Civitas Branching, a 5-panel mosaic depicting scenes from the College Hill neighborhood. The mosaic was created as a collaborative art project by students of the College of the Holy Cross and residents of the College Hill neighborhood in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was originally installed on the College Hill Civic Association building located at 79 Kendig Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.

In 2016, the mosaic was relocated to the east patio of Dinand Library on the campus of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. A rededication ceremony was held April 20, 2016. …

Students And Neighbors Create Community Mosaic, College Of The Holy Cross

Civitas Branching Documentation

This article briefly describes a collaborative art project by students of the College of the Holy Cross and residents of the College Hill neighborhood in Worcester, Massachusetts. Civitas Branching is a 5-panel mosaic depicting scenes from the College Hill neighborhood. It was originally installed on the College Hill Civic Association building located at 79 Kendig Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.

In 2016, the mosaic was relocated to the east patio of Dinand Library on the campus of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. A rededication ceremony was held April 20, 2016.

The Purple, June 1926

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:

• Ode to the Class Tree
• The First Press Agent
• The Comfortress
• Moon Madness
• Our World
• Variety, the Price of Life
• The Holy Eucharist
• Lazarus
• Umbrellas
• A Kiss in a Shadowed Doorway
• Lament for the Old Order
• Life and Letters of Alice Meynell
• Memory
• The Brook
• Mors, Te Saluto
• Today and Tomorrow
• Commencement
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes
• Purple Patches
• Athletics

The Purple, May 1926

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:

• Apple Blossoms
• The Last Cigarette
• Regeneration
• Stonewalls
• The Bird's Song
• The Fate of My Ship of Dreams
• Visions of Spring
• The Rain
• The Mourner
• Undertones
• Laughter
• Solvitur Arris Giems
• Fantasy on a May Evening
• Le Premier Baiser
• To Grandmother On Mother's Day
• My Friend the Book
• The Capulets at Home
• The Poppy
• The Lighthouse Birds
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Advertisements
• Images; The Purple Staff, Holy Cross Faculty

The Purple, April 1926

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:

• April
• Jest and Contra Jet
• Alternative
• Sonnet
• Sir Thomas Moore
• Obscurity
• Ghosts in Shakespeare
• The Wind and the Waves
• Tasso
• To Mary on Good Friday
• Old Letters
• Impressions of a Season
• To a Materialist
• Vocal Images
• Senex to Leuca
• A Man of Few Words
• Query Written in a Wood at Night
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes
• Purple Patches
• Athletics

The Purple, March 1926

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:

• Table of Contents
• Old Dreams
• Donn Byrne
• Laus Deo
• Rupert Brooke
• Beethoven
• Sic Sit, Domine!
• The Fog and the Rain
• Sweet Sleep
• Corneille and "The Cid"
• O Crudelis
• Some Little Boys
• Poetry and Philosophy
• Lilies
• The Fur Coat
• The Song of the Forge
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes
• Purple Patches
• Athletics

The Purple, February 1926

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:

• February
• Prince Rom
• Crazy - Quilts
• The Slippers of the Goddess
• Musings
• Hyacinth
• Snowballs and Roses
• History of an Ideal
• Pipes
• Ballad of a Phantom Port
• Reverie
• Winter Sunset
• Wordsworth and Poetic Diction
• The Chinook Wind
• The Value of Poetry
• Amor Caelorum
• Laughing Children
• The Case Against Journalistic Criticism
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes
• Purple Patches
• College Chronicle
• Athletics

The Purple, January 1926

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:

• Silhouette
• The Reserves
• Harbor Lights
• And the Day Was Given Over to Games
• The Snowflake
• Some Literary Beginnings
• Reqniem
• Reverie
• Snow Blindness
• The North Wind
• Several Hamlets
• Evening by the Shore
• On Reading "Peter Pan"
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes

The Purple, December 1925

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:

• December
• Lament
• Sol Y Sombra
• One Knocking
• Phantasie
• Sole Mio
• Parable Spoken to a Lady
• Ens Rationis
• The Trees
• Rain on the Roof
• As the Gifts of the Wise Men
• The Mount and the Meadow
• The Sky
• The First Shepherd
• Reflections of a Dog
• Atra Cura
• Gilbert K. Chesterton -- The Poet
• The Stable's Soliloquy
• Sunset Fire
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes
• Purple Patches
• Athletics

The Purple, November 1925

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:

• November
• Hoffmann
• Sonnet
• The Autumn's Treasure
• The Old Night
• Moods
• The Goddess
• New York Noon-Time Vignettes
• Stars
• Day Dreams
• Three Nights
• Our Gang
• Broken Friendship
• The Puritan
• Tears
• Snowfall
• "Ads"
• The Sunrise
• The Crudest Words
• On Introducing One Another
• The Seaman's Song
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Advertisements

The Purple, October 1925

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:

• Table of Contents
• In October
• The Humor of a Sage
• To E. On Her Birthday
• Nomenclature
• The Man With a Face
• The Sailor's Song
• Pseudo-Translations and Pseudo-Originals: Chatterton
• Indian Summer
• Yesterday's Tomorrow
• Evening
• Spiritual Awakening
• On Going to the Theatre
• Invocation
• Three Late Victorians
• The Old Home
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Advertisements

The Purple, June 1925

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:

• Advertisements
• Table of Contents For June, 1925
• Ode To Class Tree
• Exit the Hero
• Lady Luck
• Love's Way
• Spenser's Introduction to the Faery Queen
• The Trees at Dan
• On Reading Gilmore's "Afterthoughts"
• Mother
• Commencement Addresses
• To the Holy Cross Grave Yard
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Purple Patches
• Images; Holy Cross Baseball Champions 1925

The Purple, May 1925

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:

• Advertisements
• Table of Contents for May, 1925
• Maytime
• The Colossus of the Avenue
• The Year's Debut
• A Rhapsody In Blue
• The Sun-Dial
• A May Shrine
• Concerning the Ubiquitous "Laudator"
• Spring
• The Goal
• Habit
• The City's Lights
• The Gentle Art of Fighting Dragons
• Sonnet
• Boswell, His Character and His Genius
• To A Quill
• Robert Burns and His Lyric Poetry
• The Call to Arms
• Foster Stearns, Librarian at Holy Cross College
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Purple Patches
• Images; Foster …

The Purple, April 1925

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:

• Advertisements
• Table of Contents for April, 1925
• To Mary Magdalen
• Skittles
• Vision of Spring
• Dayspring
• A Philosophy of Shaving
• Oberon and the Popular
• Genius and Common Sense
• The Spider
• Gossip
• Dickens and Thackeray
• Why Pose?
• Rainy Days
• An Easter Prayer
• And Seeing They Shall Believe
• The City Below the Hill
• Vox Populi -- Et Pes
• To --
• Streets
• Victors
• A Tribute
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Purple Patches
• Images; Rev. William F. Hafey

The Purple, March 1925

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:

• Advertisements
• Table of Contents for March, 1925
• Kindred
• Apostles of Culture
• Love and Laughter
• Little Song
• Why Leprechauns Have One Large Ear
• March Winds
• A Rondeau to March
• The Congo
• The Rustle of Spring
• The Milkman's Hour
• Pierian Rose
• Philippe
• Lent
• The Automaton
• The Haven
• The Plotter
• A Song of Spring
• The Child
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Purple Patches
• Ex Senator David I. Walsh and Washington
• Advertisements
• Images; Banquet in Honor of Ex-Senator David I. Walsh

The Purple, February 1925

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:

• Snow
• Laughter
• Friendship
• The Failure
• Miss Liberty
• Hats and Men
• Doveo
• The Winged Sin-Disc
• To a Child on the Sea Shore
• To a Country Lad
• Psychology Without A Soul
• To G.T.F.
• The Blue Scarab
• Lottery
• Rafael Sabatini and Jeffery Farnol
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Advertisement
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Images; The Cast of "Richard III"

The Purple, January 1925

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 a Dew Drop
• The Tragedy
• The Kings
• Backyards
• The Birth of the Rose
• Psychoanalysis and the New Psychology
• Life
• Habit
• Altar Blooms
• Westward Ho!
• Rafael Sabantini
• The Land of Long Ago
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Entre Nous
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Images; The Football Squad