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The Purple, November 1906 Nov 2023

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 Jul 2023

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 Jul 2023

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 Purple, June 1926 Jun 1926

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 May 1926

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 Apr 1926

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 Mar 1926

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 Feb 1926

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 Jan 1926

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 Dec 1925

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 Nov 1925

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 Oct 1925

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 Jun 1925

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 May 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 Apr 1925

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 Mar 1925

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 Feb 1925

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 Jan 1925

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


The Purple, December 1924 Dec 1924

The Purple, December 1924

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:

  • While They Slept
  • Santa Claus or Soviets
  • Quid Retribuam
  • Our Modern Verse
  • The Yacht
  • Deuces
  • Nocturne - A Garden by the Sea
  • A New Fad
  • Glimpses of Life
  • To a Snowflake
  • Hypnotism and Spiritism
  • Dreams
  • Drifting
  • Under the Rose
  • Editorials
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • Advertisement
  • Athletics


The Purple, October 1924 Nov 1924

The Purple, October 1924

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 Silences of Thought
  • Nothing is New
  • Shadows
  • The Seventh Arm of Ja-No
  • The Birth of Music
  • Wits, Wags, and Nincompoops
  • World-Weary
  • Glimpses of Gotham
  • Revista
  • The Scene Shall Never Fit the Deed
  • The Goldenrod
  • Joseph Conrad
  • The Sacrifice
  • Under the Rose
  • Editorials
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • Athletics
  • Advertisements
  • Images; Rev. Joseph N. Dinand


The Purple, November 1924 Nov 1924

The Purple, November 1924

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:

  • Ephemera
  • The Open Road -- An Essay
  • Hope
  • Glimpses of Life
  • My Friend
  • A Poet's Vision Vision of Autumn
  • Reunion
  • Comme le Roi
  • Sonnet to a Dead Child
  • Walter Hampden
  • I'd Like to Know
  • The Sociability of Mail Boxes
  • Indian Summer
  • Rationality and the Animal
  • The Elf on the Sugar Bowl
  • Flapperettes
  • The Forgotten Art
  • The Winged Explorer
  • Under the Rose
  • Editorials
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • Advertisement
  • Athletics
  • Images; The New Stadium, Dinand Library


The Purple, June 1924 Jun 1924

The Purple, June 1924

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
  • Upon the Lintel
  • Fog
  • The Soul of Education
  • To Killeen
  • "Frater Ave Atque Vale"
  • Illusions
  • Rain
  • John F. Callanan, LL.B.
  • Surcease
  • The Paraguayan Reductions
  • To the Counselor of My Youth
  • Frederick Oznam
  • The Power of Man
  • Under the Rose
  • Editorials
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • Athletics
  • Advertisements
  • Images; Undefeated Holy Cross Baseball Team 1924,


The Purple, May 1924 May 1924

The Purple, May 1924

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 Memorial Chapel
  • Told in Gath
  • May
  • Sea-Fever
  • Steamah-Time on D'Eastun Sho'
  • Jonathan Swift---Ecclesiastical Politician
  • Transformation
  • The "Twin Lights"
  • Children's Voices
  • A Farrago of Fools
  • Stop, Thief!
  • A Prophecy For Erin
  • Eighteenth Century Worthies
  • Old Tower Bell
  • "Save That Kick"
  • The New Chapel
  • Under the Rose
  • Editorials
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • Athletics
  • Advertisements
  • Images; Holy Cross Purple Staff


The Purple, April 1924 Apr 1924

The Purple, April 1924

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:

  • Magdalen at the Tomb
  • David Dreams
  • April
  • Johnson - The Man
  • Man and Time
  • Glimpses of Gotham - Downtown
  • Ballade of the Little Knight Errant
  • Fanny Burney - Madame D'Arblay
  • "Adventus Veris"
  • Fr. Neil Boyton, S.J.,'08
  • L'Envoi
  • "Thy Youth is Renewed Like Like the Eagle's"
  • A Philosophy Circle
  • April Friendships
  • Triolets
  • The Avenger
  • Under the Rose
  • Editorials
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • Athletics
  • Advertisements
  • Images; Track Team Members, St. Joseph's Memoria Chapel Consecrated May 7, 1924


The Purple, March 1924 Mar 1924

The Purple, March 1924

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
  • Saint Patrick's Day
  • Lyrical or Lack-a-daisical
  • Hammer 'Gainst Nail
  • Men or Machines
  • The Other Trail
  • A Day in Ancient Rome
  • Retrospection
  • The Younger Generation
  • The Olive Club Speaks
  • The Lawyer and the Classical College
  • Grandfather
  • Lecture-Lights
  • Fallen Sentinels
  • The Joker and the Blind Pig
  • "Solvitur Arris Giemps"
  • Communications
  • Under the Rose
  • Editorials
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • Athletics
  • Advertisements


The Purple, February 1924 Feb 1924

The Purple, February 1924

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:

  • Ethical Value of the Gothic Cathedral
  • Progress
  • The Gael and His Song
  • The Hills of Saint Mary's
  • Alexander Pope
  • A Prayer
  • Tea
  • Confidences
  • The Teacher and the Liberal Arts
  • The Altar Lamp
  • "What Makes a Business Man Tired?"
  • Threnody
  • Minor Augustans
  • February
  • Glimpses of Gotham
  • Under the Rose
  • Editorials
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • Athletics
  • Advertisements


The Purple, January 1924 Jan 1924

The Purple, January 1924

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:

  • Midnight, January First
  • Alas, Poor Ezra!
  • What is Welfare?
  • Eyes of Youth
  • Eighteenth Century Life and Literature
  • Social Life of the Eighteenth Century
  • Poetry of the Eighteenth Century
  • Prose of the Eighteenth Century
  • City Folks
  • The Business Man and the Arts
  • Quatrains
  • Winter in the Woods
  • Glimpses of Gotham- Broadway
  • To the Old Year
  • Moths
  • Immortality
  • In Memoriam
  • Under the Rose
  • Editorials
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • Athletics


The Purple, December 1923 Dec 1923

The Purple, December 1923

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:

  • Christmas
  • The Rain-Man
  • December
  • To My Mother
  • Instinct and Intelligence
  • Sonnet
  • The Seashell
  • Adam
  • Feng Shuey
  • Amateur Singer
  • Dedication
  • College and the Ministry
  • A Song of the Rails
  • The Christmas Gift
  • Cockran the Rhetorician
  • Joyce Kilmer
  • Under the Rose
  • Editorial
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • Athletics
  • Advertisements
  • Images; 1923 Football Squad, Cast For "The Merchant of Venice"


The Purple, November 1923 Nov 1923

The Purple, November 1923

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:

  • Idyl of a November Night
  • Pastry on Parnassus
  • Song Thief
  • The Tempest, An Allegory
  • Winter's Defence
  • The Haunted House
  • The First Fire
  • The Physicians and the Arts
  • A Fancy
  • On Chasing Hats
  • His Last Case
  • The Mill Pond
  • Hardships of An Author
  • Communications
  • Under the Rose
  • Editorials
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • Athletics
  • Images; Football Game


The Purple, October 1923 Oct 1923

The Purple, October 1923

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
  • The New Chapel
  • "Pass in Review!"
  • The Poet
  • The Bal Masque
  • To a New-Born Babe
  • A Greek Tragedy
  • To a Drooping Golden-Rod
  • Ideals of an Idler
  • Loss
  • Shakespeare's Inner Shrine
  • The Locomotives
  • Facts
  • Under the Rose
  • Editorial
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • Athletics
  • Thanksgiving