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Helen Marx's Scrapbook 1908-1911, Helen Marx

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Helen Marx was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana on May 13, 1894. She attended Belmont College for Young Women from 1908-1911 and received a special degree in English. After school, she returned to Lake Charles and eventually married Richard Joseph Zander on June 18, 1919. The couple moved to Pennsylvania where he worked as a partner in a men’s clothing manufacturing business and Helen was a homemaker. They had four children: Judith, Richard Jr., Julia, and Simone. Richard Zander Sr. died on December 17, 1954, and Helen passed on March 5, 1982.

The Purple, October 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:

• Service Beautiful
• The Visit of Cardinal Gibbons
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, January 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:

• Two Inaugurations
• Little Jim
• At Sunset
• The Comic Elements in the Duo Captivi
• The Days of Old
• The Doctor's Second Call
• The Advertising Poet
• The Boston Alumni Association
• Obituary
• Briefs
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Purple, March 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:

• William Wilson, Alias Markheim
• Have You?
• A Filipino Pearl
• In Peneus' Dells
• Spring's Harbinger
• Henry IV
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, February 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:

• Wanted-A Detective
• My Valentine
• A Pagan Decision
• A Grand Army Button
• Under the Rose
• Demosthenes
• Editorial
• Stick to It
• College Chronicle
• The Oral Exam
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, January 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:

• Mr. Lashley's Tragic End
• Socialism and Independence
• Venite Adoremus: A Christmas Echo
• A Noisy Ghost
• Dante de Allighieri: A Sketch
• Don't You Know?
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Obituary
• Athletics

The Purple, April 1904

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:

• Spring's Return
• Thomas Gray, Poet
• The Freshmen's Club
• A Reverie
• The Tide and the Sonnet
• Under the Rose
• My Faded Rose
• The Sun Shone To-Day
• The Intercollegiate Debate
• The Traitor Ocean
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Exchanges
• Athletics

The Purple, December 1903

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:

• "Resembling the Catacombs of Rome"
• On Christmas Eve
• The Test
• To the Old Year
• The Poetry of Stephen Philips
• Atonement
• The Holy Leaf
• The Rebuke
• The Doctor's Box of Roses
• A Psalm of Foot-Ball
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• The Editor's Note-book
• Exchanges
• Athletics

The Purple, February 1903

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:

• Realist or Idealist?
• Priest and Martyr
• Moral Consequences of Agnostic Teaching
• Flowers
• The Awakening of John Grey
• The Aftermath
• Reunion of '96
• The Wail of the Wonted
• Editorial
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• Our Exchanges
• Athletics

The Purple, November 1902

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:

• Lucretius and Some Modern Thinkers
• Frederic Ozanam and His Work
• A Transformation
• The Comic Spirit-Its Uses and Abuses
• The Appointment of Cardinal Gotti
• Editorial
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• Athletics

The Purple, April 1902

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:

• Christ is Risen!
• Three Philosophies of Life-To Get, To Know, To Be
• A Legend of the Cheyenne
• At Holy Cross
• St. Thomas Aquinas
• Mr. Doucett
• Kind Words
• The Stowaway
• A Retrospect
• Wordsworth's Intimations of Immortality
• To Mt. Greylock
• The Good Old TImes
• Easter Joy
• Spirit Becoming to Easter
• The Ethics of the Athletic Arena
• College Chronicle
• Alumni

The Purple, December 1901

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
• A Mother's Love
• From Amiens to Trinity
• A Dream
• The Story of the Sword
• Thanksgiving
• Dante's and Milton's Hell
• In Memoriam
• Fair Play
• 'Twas Not Ever Thus
• Truth Stranger Than Fiction
• As Others See US
• Prologue
• College Chronicle
• Alumni

The Purple, March 1901

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 Parting
• Emulation of Models
• The Midnight Hymn
• Twilight Memories
• The Tale of an Arrow
• The Great Irish Rebel
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletic Comment

The Purple, November 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 French Colonel's Story
• The Chalice of Circe
• Freshman Memories-'77-'78
• To Maecenas
• A November Day Dream
• Life
• To My Pipe
• Letter to Horace
• Up the Mediterranean
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, July 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:

• Last Days of '99-'00
• The Bristol County Alumni Meeting
• Editorial
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, June 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:

• Leaves From Early History
• What Was Best in My College Course
• College Associations
• The Dramatic Society
• Advanced!
• History of the Junior Banquets
• The Purple Prizes
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Athletics at Holy Cross a Quarter Century Ago
• Athletics

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, 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, 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, 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, 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

This issue contains table of content for …

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, March 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:

• "Time's Wheel Turns Back or Stops, Potter and Clay Endure"
• An Unconventional Apostle
• His Nine.-A Plotless Tale
• Some Irish Poets Of the Nineteenth Century
• What The Monks Have Done For Learning
• Our Life's Star
• In Bleakest March
• Editorial
• The Alumni
• The College Chronicle
• Athletics
• From the Editor's Table

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

L'Illustre Dompteur, P. Guigou, A. Vimar, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

47, [1] pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 32 cm. Series: Libraririe Plon. Color illustration on title page. Pochoir illustrations. Cloth binding, color illustration mounted on cover.

Julian L. Peabody collection, transferred from the RISD Museum.