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Campus Poetry Walk: (Re)Creating And Reconnecting A Community (Presentation), Lisa Villa

Staff publications

In January 2020, the Outreach and Engagement Team at the College of the Holy Cross began preparing a poetry walk, which was reconfigured to a social media “poetry event” due to COVID-19. With the anticipated return of students to campus for the Spring 2021 semester and a need for the community (especially students) to have recreational opportunities that were safe, socially distanced and preferably outside, the Team attempted for a second time to plan a poetry walk. CrossWorks, the institutional repository for the College, was a part of this plan from the beginning. Foremost, CrossWorks would support the scholarly and …

Blackstone Communion, Anne-Catherine Schaaf

Office of Sustainability

This short story describes a spiritual connection with nature experienced by the author when walking along a trail in Blackstone Gateway Park. Blackstone Gateway Park is an urban, riverfront park in Worcester, Massachusetts. Features of the park include walking paths and an elevated boardwalk which crosses the Middle River and the surrounding wetlands.

De L’Aliénation À La Libération, Alexie Tcheuyap

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This essay addresses the issue of education in pre and post-colonial Africa. It examines the ideological discourses, challenges and consequences associated with the adoption of western education in African countries. Based on novels and films, some of which are set in universities, the article analyses the effects of violence and irrelevant syllabi on African education, and argues that in order for knowledge to serve as a tool for real liberation, it has to be relevant to the social environment. It contends further that, paradoxically, even colonial education can contribute towards the liberation of Africans from some problematic aspects of their …

An Anthology Of Holy Cross Verse, College Of The Holy Cross

Holy Cross Bookshelf

A collection of poetry compiled from The Holy Cross Purple, a literary publication produced by the students of the College of the Holy Cross. The selections included in this anthology appeared in The Holy Cross Purple between 1920 and 1937.

The volume's endpapers are an illustrated map of the college campus circa 1937.

Spine title: Anthology of Holy Cross Verse: 1920-1937

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

Holy Cross Bookshelf

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, 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, 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, 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, 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 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:

• The First Catholic College in New England
• The Alumni Bishops of Holy Cross
• Alma's Soldier Sons
• Holy Cross Students in the Civil War
• Holy Cross Students on the Judiciary Bench
• Duty of the College and of College Men to the Summer School
• To the Sacred Heart
• A Word with the Young Man Who Is to Take Up the Study of Law
• Vesper
• Some Words of Counsel to Those About to Take Up the Study of Medicine
• Fancy …