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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, May 1895

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:

• News of the Month
• Influence of Catholic Genius on English Literature
• Old Oxford
• The Catholic Church the Mother of our Liberties
• The Court of Byzantium
• The Inaugural Concert
• Jubilee of Archbishop Williams
• Centenary of Maynooth College
• O'Connell's Last Words
• Paschatis Dies
• Easter Day
• Our Glee
• The Bee and the Lily
• In Memoriam
• The Late Rev. Fr. Nopper, S.J.
• George J. Boden
• William M. Smith, S.J.
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Advertisements

The Purple, February 1895

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:

• News of the Month
• Footprints of the Calumniator
• "Peu de Chose"
• New England Then, and Now
• Saint Georges et le Dragon
• The Homeric Simile
• Julius Caesar in a New Light
• The Reunion of the Class of '85"
• The College Play
• President Eliot on Football
• Laws of Olympus Born
• Winter's Pleasures
• Our Own Colonos Blest
• A Mathematical Lecture
• King John
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Alumni Notes

Connie Dockery's Scrapbook 1894-1895, Connie Dockery

Scrapbooks

Connie Dockery attended Belmont College for Young Women during the 1894-1895 school year. She made this notebook while attending school at Belmont.

Elegiac Stanzas, William Wordsworth, Richard Matlak

Texts relating to the Earl of Abergavenny (ship)

Poem written by William Wordsworth in response to Sir George Beaumont's painting Piel Castle in a Storm, which Wordsworth associated with his brother's tragedy. Captain John Wordsworth died when his ship, the Earl of Abergavenny, sank off the coast of England during a storm in February, 1805.

Annotated by Richard Matlak.

The poetic text and associated image accompany a model of the Earl of Abergavenny, East Indiaman on display in Dinand Library at the College of the Holy Cross.

Narrative Of The Loss Of The Earl Of Abergavenny, East Indiaman, Captain John Wordsworth, Which Drove On The Shambles, Off The Bill Of Portland, And Sunk In Twelve Fathoms Water, February 5, 1805, Archibald Duncan

Texts relating to the Earl of Abergavenny (ship)

The Earl of Abergevnny was an East Indiaman which was wrecked in 1805 off the Isle of Portland, England in Weymouth Bay. The sinking was a sensational event due to the high number of lives lost, the amount of high-value of cargo that sank and the controversial testimony of survivors. Captain John Wordsworth, brother of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, perished in the wreck.

This excerpt is from the Mariner's Chronicle, Being a Collection of the Most Interesting Narratives of Shipwrecks, Fires, Famines, and Other Calamaties Incident to a Life of Maritime Enterprise by Archibald Duncan, 124-132. London: James Cundee,1805

"I Only Look'd For Pain And Grief", William Wordsworth, Richard Matlak

Texts relating to the Earl of Abergavenny (ship)

Poem written by William Wordsworth as a private lament on the death of his brother, left unpublished in manuscript. Captain John Wordsworth died when his ship, the Earl of Abergavenny, sank off the coast of England during a storm in February, 1805.

Annotated by Richard Matlak.

Rb005: Anatomia In Qua Tota Humani Corporis Fabrica... Amstelodami, Ioannes Ianssonius, 1617, Andreas Vesalius 1514-1564, Thomas Geminus D. 1562

Anatomical Texts

A paper affixed to the rear free endpaper of the item states that is edition contains “fine reproductions of the Gemini plates.”

“Thomas Geminus was a a pseudonym for Thomas Lambrit, an engraver and printer…shown as active from about 1540; he died in May 1562.” http://www.arsanatomica.lib.ed.ac.uk/geminus.html accessed 11/20/2012. Geminus (Lambrit) printed Compendiosa totius anatomiae delineation aere exarata in 1545 copied from Vesalius’ 1543, De humani corporis fabrica . (Wellcome Library catalog, accessed 11/20/2012.)

This book is a 1617 reproduction of the engraved copperplates which Lambrit himself copied from the original woodblock prints of the Vesalius’ book.

Because the illustrations were …

Fall 1984, Wmpg 90.9 Fm

WMPG Program Guides

WMPG program guide for fall 1984.

Includes notes from Program Director, information on shows and events, and schedule.