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The Purple, April 1900

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 Player's Son
• The Resurrection Time
• Thought-Development in Tennyson's "Lotus Eaters"
• When My Ship Comes In
• The Good Luck of Armand De Cognac
• A Rose of Yesterday
• Letters to Living Writers
• Oh, For the Sigh of a Summer Breeze
• Newman and Cicero
• The Vampire
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics

The Purple, March 1900

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:

• Five Seeds of Tobacco
• The Critic's Dream
• Ashamed to Seem Generous
• Tenuis Avena
• The Good Luck of Armand De Cognac
• Greatness
• A Night of Horrors
• The Reaping of the Harvest
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• A Review of Track Athletics

The Purple, February 1900

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 Worcester County Alumni Association
• Spring Rondeaux
• Letters to Living Writers
• Tenuis Avena
• Toby
• A Race Reserved
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Question-Box

The Purple, January 1900

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 Characteristics of the Senior
• Letters to Living Writers
• From Anacreon
• The Americans of James Russell Lowell
• Youthful Dreams
• Two Ghost Stories
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Question Box

Volume information for this issue appears on p. 323

The Purple, December 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:

• College Scenes, Old and New
• To Anglomania
• Letters to Living Writers
• When Christmas Time Comes 'Round
• A Man With a Mission
• The Bells of Yule
• A Martyr's Christmas
• Christmas Musings
• A Christmas Home-Coming
• The End of the Season
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• A Review of the Football Season of '99
• Includes photographs of dormitory rooms.

Volume information for this issue appears on p. 237,

The Purple, November 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:

• Edward A. Scott
• The Corner Brick
• Letters to Living Writers
• The Passing of Summer
• The Leader of His Class
• Beware!
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Includes photograph of College Refectory

Volume information for this issue appears on p. 161.

The Purple, October 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:

• Letters to Living Writers
• Other Days
• A Symposium on Poetry
• A Curious Manuscript
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics

Volume information for this issue appears on p. 92.

The Purple, July 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:

• Fiftieth Graduation Day at Holy Cross College
• From South Worcester to Cuba and Back
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Includes photographs of Class of '99, ;99 football team, commencement

Volume information for this issue appears on p. 33.

The Purple, May 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:

• Rudyard Kipling
• A Long Farewell
• One Man's Career
• Seeking the Muse
• Rest
• A Name in Arcady
• A Fantasie
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Editor's Table
• Advertisements

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

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

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, January 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:

• Our Catholic Colleges
• Blessed are They That Mourn
• A Letter and a Promise From '74
• My Last Adventure. A Narrative Found in an Old Chest
• Memories
• The Story of the Class Journal
• A Disappointing Letter From One of Our Soldier Boys
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Editor's Table
• Advertisements

The Purple, December 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 Thirty Years Ago
• A Foot-ball Soliloquy
• The Story of the Class Journal
• From Rome to Ireland
• The Locomotive's Christmas Whistle
• A Football Game (?) Played at Christmas, A. D. 1400
• Bill Brown's Campaign
• Ballade
• Christmas: A Short History
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• A Tribute of Gratitude
• Photograph of 1898-99 Football team, A.B.R. Sprague, Irving Swan Brown, Henry S. Pratt, Matthew B. Lamb, A.A. McLoughlin, John F. Harrigan, Daniel Downey, Rev. T.J. Campbell SJ …

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

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, July 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 Year Endeth
• Commencement Week
• Alma's Blessing to '98
• Materialism and Its Tendencies
• The Song of June
• The Catholic College Graduate
• Loyalty
• Socialism and Christianity
• The Purpose of the College
• The Yankee Eight
• The Catholic Church and the Working Boy
• "He Hath Done All Things Well"
• An Old University
• Class of '98
• The Purple-Prize Winners
• The Staff of '97-'98
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Photographs of Class of 1898, Class of 1900, students,Camera Club, emblem of …

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

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, April 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:

• Reading Biography
• Easter Morn
• On the High Seas
• In March
• One American Essayist-Miss Repplier
• The Maine
• The Castle of Rhinefel Isle
• Remorse
• Charlemagne and the Revival of Learning
• The Sailor's Hymn
• The Violet
• General Rosecrans
• A Protest
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Advertisements

Volume information appears on p. 267.

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

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

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, December 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:

• The Coming of Yule
• King Agbarus - A Christmas Narrative
• The Star
• Two Friends
• Bygone Days
• The Prince of Essayists - A Sketch
• Roast Turkey vs. Roast Pig
• The Midnight Minuet
• Some Noted Characters of Dickens
• The Song of the Engineer
• Dick Steele - A Story
• A Borrowed Saint
• The Mistletoe
• "Peace on Earth"
• A Good Custom
• Alumni
• Juniors' Night
• College Chronicle
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Book Reviews
• Calendar for December and January

Volume information on p. 346.

The Purple, November 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:

• "Light of Other Days"
• The Clean of Heart
• A Venusian Twilight
• A Recent Jubilee in England
• A Classic of the Old School
• The Spirit of the Waves
• Etchings
• The Dawn of the Day
• Classic Tales in Modern Dress
• Sicut Lilium Inter Spinas
• Cash Prize of Twenty-Five Dollars
• The College and the University
• The Investiture of Monsignor Conaty '69
• The Alumni
• Purple Patches
• The College Chronicle
• Athletics
• From the Editor's Table

Masthead appears on p. 267.

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

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, June 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:

• June Roses
• Recollections of Holy Cross at the Season of the End of the War between North and South
• Fair Land and Free
• Some Leaves from Irish History
• Activity
• Why?
• To Dante in Exile
• Journalism
• On a Falling Star
• A Plea for an Alumni Day
• Necessity of Parental Co-Operation for the Success of the Teacher
• Mozart's Dream
• A Few Reminiscences of Holy Cross a Generation Ago
• Two Consuls
• Debating Societies and Their Utility
• The Oriole
• Holy Cross …

The Purple, January 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:

• Contents
• Catholics and Public Libraries
• The Well-Head of Christmas Song
• A Christmas Carol
• A Mediaeval Nativity Play
• The New Year
• Conventry Patmore
• Life
• On the Decadence of a Good Game
• The Priest
• A Christmas Dinner
• The Reception to Very Rev. Thomas J. Conaty, D. D., '69
• Editorials
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• From the Editor's Table
• Calendar For Dec.-Jan

The Purple, [December 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:

• A Holy Cross Alumnus Rector of the Catholic University
• The Art of Poetry--A Definition
• A Thought for the "Coming-Time"
• St. Francis Xavier and a Modern Scientist
• A Few Pastels
• The "Coming-Time in Song
• Cardinal Newman and Anglican Orders
• The Winter's Breath
• The Reverend Peter J. Blenkinsop, S.J.
• Rhetoricians' Night
• A Golden Jubilee
• The Alumni
• The College Chronicle
• Athletics