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The Purple

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The Purple, March 1899 Apr 1899

The Purple, March 1899

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 Masterpiece
  • The Wind of March
  • In The Gloaming
  • The Legend of the Red Rose
  • Nemesis
  • To a Locket: Taken from the Ruins of Pompeii
  • Conversation
  • Editorials
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • College World
  • Athletics
  • Editor's Table
  • Advertisements


The Purple, April 1899 Apr 1899

The Purple, April 1899

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:

  • James Lane Allen
  • A Vision of Hope
  • In Death Reunited
  • Study-Hall Ballad
  • Tennyson's Love For The Sea
  • Life's a Deceiver
  • Who Was Jim?
  • Nihil Est Ex Omni Parte Beatum
  • Editorials
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • College World
  • Athletics
  • Editor's Table
  • Advertisements


The Purple, February 1899 Feb 1899

The Purple, February 1899

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:

  • Wanted,--An Original Genius
  • My Guiding Star
  • The Humor of the Law
  • A Sad Remembrance
  • Student Celebration on the Occasion of Final Vows
  • The Vigil of St. Ignatius
  • Greetings of Former Students
  • The Vows at Montmarte
  • The Vows of To-Day
  • Xavier
  • Victories of the Future
  • Editorials
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • College World
  • Athletics
  • Editor's Table
  • program for Final Vows celebration


The Purple, November 1898 Nov 1898

The Purple, November 1898

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:

  • Some Uses and Abuses of Novel-Reading
  • Villanelle
  • College Athletics-Are They Good or Bad?
  • A Dream of Football
  • Some Personal Experiences of a Surgeon in the Late War
  • The Happy Leaves
  • Was Gladstone's Attitude Toward the Church Honest and Consistent?
  • Rondeau
  • Campaigning With the 12th U.S. Infantry
  • Rondeau
  • The Snowflakes
  • Editorials
  • The College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • College World
  • Athletics
  • From the Editor's Table
  • Photographs of Peter O'Shea '92, Thomas P. Conneff '96, Rev. James Healy '49,

Volume information appears …


The Purple, October 1898 Oct 1898

The Purple, October 1898

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 Imagination; Its Importance and Its Cultivation
  • Campaigning with the 12th U.S. infantry
  • Dear Little Rose
  • What Have the Monks Done for English Literature?
  • Ballade
  • A Few Phases of Senior Life at Holy Cross
  • Editorials
  • College Chronicle
  • The Alumni
  • College World
  • Athletics
  • From the Editor's Table
  • A Strange Communication
  • Photographs of rooms in Fenwick Hall, Allie H. Farmer '98

Volume information appears on p. 93.


The Purple, June 1898 Jun 1898

The Purple, June 1898

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 B.J.F.- Its Dawn
  • A Token of Sentiment Reciprocated
  • The Lawyer
  • The Gallant Mac's and O's
  • Honorary Members of the B.J.F.
  • Invito A Venire In Sorrento
  • B.J.F. of War Days
  • Popular Fallacies About Lawyers
  • Yellowmania
  • Purple Patches
  • To My T.D.
  • The College Man and Life's Problems
  • To Keats
  • Early Dramatic Clubs
  • "The Dramatic" of the Sixties
  • To T.J.S.
  • The Actor and the Orator
  • The Philomathic
  • League of the Sacred Heart
  • B.V.M. Sodality
  • Pyramid of Caius Cestius
  • Our …


The Purple, May 1898 May 1898

The Purple, May 1898

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 Hand of the King
  • The River
  • The Renaissance
  • A Tear
  • A Clever "Reuben"
  • Sigh-Born Dreams
  • The Church, The Mother of Culture
  • Waiting
  • "For the Right"
  • Ellen
  • One Hundred Dollars in Gold
  • Local Alumni Associations
  • Notice
  • Alumni
  • L'Addio A Sorrento
  • College Chronicle
  • Purple Patches
  • Athletics
  • Editor's Table
  • Advertisements

Volume information appreas on p. 330.


The Purple, March 1898 Mar 1898

The Purple, March 1898

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:

  • Herr Hahmmer and Others
  • The Great Novel-Satirist
  • Hope's Story
  • The Gentle Art of Whistling
  • Coasting
  • Under the Wild Forget-Me-Nots
  • At Eventide
  • My Own True Love
  • A Thought
  • The Maine
  • Catholic Books in Public Libraries
  • The Deaf Mutes
  • For the Old Boys Again
  • Alumni
  • College Chronicle
  • Purple Patches
  • Athletics
  • Editor's Table
  • Advertisements

Volume information appears on p. 187.


The Purple, February 1898 Feb 1898

The Purple, February 1898

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:

  • Some Educational Fables
  • Long Ago
  • That Team Race
  • Ballad of the Old Year
  • "The Augustan Literary Circle."
  • Fiesole
  • Hope
  • Counsel For the Defense
  • Memories of Home
  • Statesman, Scholar, Saint
  • The Sacrifice
  • A Sign of the Times
  • The New Term
  • Modesty and Gratitude
  • For the Old Boys Only
  • The Alumni
  • College Chronicle
  • Purple Patches
  • Athletics
  • Editor's Table
  • Advertisements

Volume information appears on p. 118.


The Purple, January 1898 Jan 1898

The Purple, January 1898

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:

  • De Quincey on Literature
  • Life in Death
  • The Story Runneth Thus
  • The Combat Between Hector and Achilles
  • Tennyson's Biography
  • The Voyage
  • A Chemical Success
  • Here in the Gloom
  • Frederick Ozanam
  • Memories
  • "Bores, With Suggestions for Their Extermination."
  • On Christmas Morn
  • The Old Year and the New
  • Catholic Papers and Magazines
  • Educational Evils
  • A Correction
  • Alumni
  • College Chronicle
  • Purple Patches
  • Athletics
  • Editor's Table
  • Advertisements
  • Photograph of Holy Cross 1897 Football Team

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The Purple, October 1897 Oct 1897

The Purple, October 1897

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:

  • An Idealized Letter
  • Voices of the Night
  • Scenes and Songs of the Old Plantation Life
  • A True Educational Reformer
  • Autumn
  • Forgiven-A Story
  • The Guardian of the Night
  • A Retrospect and a Prospect
  • To the Old Boys of Holy Cross: - Greeting
  • A Word on Athletics
  • Our Advertisers
  • The Class of '97
  • In Memoriam
  • The College Chronicle
  • The Alumni
  • Athletics
  • From the Editors Table

Masthead appears on p. 199


The Purple, July 1897 Jul 1897

The Purple, July 1897

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 Week
  • Pity
  • Visit of the Very Rev. Edward I. Purbrick, S.J.
  • Ignatius the Soldier
  • The Genius of the Middle Ages
  • The Love of a Father
  • The College Graduate the Future Statesman
  • Religion the Corner-stone of Government
  • Augustine at Milan
  • A Liberal Education and Society
  • Out of a Dream
  • Edward the Confessor
  • Dr. Conaty a Monsignor
  • For the Best
  • Brother Michael Hogan, S.J.
  • A Word on Georgetown's Graduate School
  • After the Storm-A Fantasy
  • Editorials
  • The Alumni
  • The …


The Purple, November 1896 Nov 1896

The Purple, November 1896

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:

  • First Steps in the Study of the Classics
  • William Morris
  • William Morris (poem)
  • Letters to Dead Authors
  • The Ending of a Polish Youth
  • On a Queer Prejudice
  • A Priest's Mother
  • His Wages
  • A November Day
  • Students and Reading
  • The Glee Club and Orchestra
  • Bishop Beaven
  • "And in the Fourth Watch of the Night, He Came to Them Walking Upon the Sea"
  • The Alumni
  • The College Chronicle
  • Athletics
  • From the Editor's Table


The Purple, July 1896 Jul 1896

The Purple, July 1896

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 Day
  • Governor Wolcott's Address
  • If I Could Know
  • The Cardinal's Visit
  • Prince of the Church
  • The Prince of the Faith
  • Nell
  • The Highest Type of Good Citien
  • Home and Mother
  • Catholic Leper Missions
  • A Reverie
  • That Unseen Phase
  • The Meeting of College Editors at the Summer School
  • Athletics
  • From the Editor's Table