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The Purple, December 1919

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 Sheriff's Xmas Present
• Utopia
• An Hour of Life
• Life
• A Grave
• A Modern Horatius
• Revelation
• Requiem
• Walt Whitmas
• At Christmas
• The House of Seven Fables
• To a Portrait
• An Old Tree
• My Hall Clock
• "The Pilot's Dropped, Sir"
• Bacchie
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, November 1919

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:

• Ashes
• Humoresque
• A Certain Someone
• The Dreamy Art of Smoking
• Spiritus Ineffabilis
• The House of Seven Fables
• Persicos Odi
• “Ave Atque Pale”
• “Brother Azarias”
• Visions
• “You Must Not-”
• My Muse
• Pals
• The Antidote
• The Bible Viewed as English Literature
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Advertisements
• Images; Holy Cross Athletic Fields

The Purple, October 1919

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 Return
• Kaiser, “The Demon”
• Eddystone
• Song of the Scouts
• Baccalaureate--1919
• Petals for Memory
• Fickleness
• The Chance
• Dies Dolorosi
• To an Old Coin
• “Pussy-Cat, Pussy-Cat--”
• The Connecticut Night
• The Rainbow
• Knowledge is Power
• Retained
• Fancy
• A Plea for Contentment
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Phantom Ships
• Images; Mayor Holmes Presenting Champion Pennant

The Purple, June 1919

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 My Parents
• Colors of Spring
• “Poetry”
• My Son
• Tragic Darkness
• A Chinese Lover’s Prayer to Chang O
• On The Death of Lesbia’s Pet Sparrow
• New Field of Song
• The City in the East
• Stella Nortis
• The Madness of McCaffrey
• The Sea
• The Brook
• The Pipe
• The Lonely Gael
• After a Raise
• The Mirror
• Whisperings
• Time and Tide
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Images; Baseball Team

The Purple, May 1919

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:

• Lilacs and an Old Old Man
• Aubrey De Vere
• Dreams
• If I Was You
• Hearts’ Images
• Cantus Stultoris
• Brenda and I
• Heard in a Country Grocery
• May
• The Birches
• A Defense for Gloomy Gus
• The Song About the Mill Pond
• The Soul Captain
• The Land of Make-Believe
• Stella Maris
• “Stage Fright”
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Images; Rev. Thomas F. McLoughlin S.J., Right Reverend William A. Hickey D.D.

The Purple, April 1919

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:

• Weave on the Golden Star
• Apocalypse of Thaw-Time
• Rain
• Spring’s Garbinger
• The Cashier’s Change
• As Great as These
• A Poet Died
• Tomorrow
• Sleep
• Your Picture Came
• James Russell Lowell
• San Marco’s Bells
• A Successful Man
• Wapoo
• Patriot Priests of France
• Day Dreams
• The Dreamer’s Jewel
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, March 1919

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:

• Reconstruction
• “A Little Child--”
• “Exultatio Filialis”
• The Moonlight Sonata
• J. Franklin’s Reason
• A Tenement Pool
• Padraic Pearse
• The Pirate-Cheif
• Bells
• The Beauty Prize
• The Sixty-Ninth’s Bright Green
• The Lonely Camp
• Chaplain Frank A. Lederle
• Somewhere in France
• Me Puero
• Let Him Go
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Communications
• Athletics
• Images; Edward V. Killeen Jr., Chaplain Charles C. Conaty ‘12, Capt. Edward T. Foley, The Purple Staff 1918-19

The Purple, February 1919

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:

• You've Gone Old Friend
• Prophecies
• Hope
• Frustration
• A Soldier Scientist
• I Know No Peace
• The Spirit Unconquecable
• From Wangan to Wangan
• New Satellites
• Emotions Amuck
• Two Loves and a Contrast
• To Pyrrha
• On Silence
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Images; Undergraduate Officers, Winter on Campus

The Verse Of Edward V. Killeen, Jr., Edward V. Killeen, College Of The Holy Cross

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Edited by The Holy Cross Purple staff

The Purple is a student magazine published by the College of the Holy Cross. In 1919, the editors endeavored to commemmorate the publication's Silver Jubillee by establishing a book series of college verse drawn from The Purple.

"The Purple Poets: Volume One" is the first in the series and features the poetry of Edward V. Killeen, Class of 1919. Killeen had been a major contributor to The Purple and was to serve as editor-in-chief of the magazine his senior year. He died before returning to Holy Cross in the fall of 1918. …

The Purple, January 1919

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:

• In Memoriam
• Dutch Song
• Forget Them Not
• "A Red Spade"
• The Message
• The Dead Castaway
• The Legend of Packachoag
• The Nearest Star of God
• City Lights
• The Frozen Trail
• Evening in a Senior Room
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Images; S.A.T.C Battalion, Holy Cross Athletic Unit Proposal