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1898 Ruby Yearbook, George Leslie Omwake, Peter Martin Orr, Ursinus College Junior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 1898 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

The Gem 1898, Taylor University

Yearbooks (1898-Present)

The 1898 yearbook of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

First yearbook published in the history of Taylor University.

Dedicated to Bishop William Taylor

Inscription: Sara Edwina Pittenger, Taylor University, Upland, Ind. June 8, 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

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.

Otterbein Aegis December 1897, Otterbein Aegis

Otterbein Aegis 1890-1917

Contents: Editorial Etchings; We too Will Yet Conquer; The Development of Democracy; A Vacation Experience; The Jews; Greek in Otterbein; Cap and Gown; Athletics; Equal Payment for Equal Work; Y . W. C. A. Notes; Y. M. C. A. ; Alumnal Notes; Locals, etc.

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, 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

1897 Ruby Yearbook, Ursinus College Junior Class, Robert Mearns Yerkes, Cyrus E. L. Gresh

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 1897 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

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

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, October 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 Reverend Edward A. McGurk, S.J.
• Meditations of Menippus the Cynic
• Language, A Criterion of Knowledge
• To a Dead Butterfly
• The Centenary of Robert Burns
• The Watchers of Folly
• What Oxford Owes to Catholicity
• My Home
• Sam's Success
• The Fisherman
• On Being Perpetually Misunderstood
• Our Literary Confidences
• The Noble Work of Catholic Laymen
• The Anniversary of Bishop Fenwick's Death
• The Conventions of Catholic College Editors
• A Letter from Admiral Meade
• The Alumni
• The College Chronicle
• Athletics
• From …

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

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 …

The Purple, May 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:

• Contents
• News of the Month
• The Night Cometh
• The Imitation of Christ, - A Classic of All Nations
• Echo
• The Satan of Paradise Lost
• The Character of Achilles
• The Lady of the Night
• Ancient and Modern Oratory Compared
• The B.J.F. Debate
• Editorials
• From the Editor's Table
• College Notes
• Alumni Notes
• Athletics
• Advertisements

The Purple, April 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:

• Contents
• News of the Month
• Reverie
• Literary Study of the Bible
• Joseph At Nazareth
• An Educational Fad
• The Olympic Games
• Will and Joe
• Editorials
• From the Editor's Table
• Alumni Notes
• College Notes
• Athletics
• In Every Humor
• Advertisements
• Images; Instructor to Gymnastics, The Holy Cross Relay Team, Prominent Members of the Holy Cross A.A., Thomas E. Cavanaugh - The First Representative of Holy Cross at the I.C.A.A.A.A.

Otterbein Aegis March 1896, Otterbein Aegis

Otterbein Aegis 1890-1917

Contents: The Edict of Nantes; Higher Criticism and the Bible; The Higher Criticism-The Objection; The Mummy Did It; Editorial; Ohio State Oratorical Contest; Y. W. C. A. Notes; Alumnals; Locals; Points, etc.

The Purple, March 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:

• Contents
• News of the Month
• From Our First Student
• Horace and Some English Satirists
• Great Minds in the Same Channel
• Waiting For The Light
• The "Morte D'Arthur"
• Prayer
• An Unknown Treasure
• Sleep
• Another Alumnus Honored
• Michael Joseph Morrison, '99
• Editorials
• Book Notices
• Exchange Notes
• Alumni Notes
• College Notes
• Athletics
• In Every Humor
• The Course of Studies
• Advertisements

The Purple, February 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:

• Contents
• News of the Month
• The Exile
• "Bread Cast Upon the Waters"
• The Colonel's Tale
• The Pen or the Hoe
• Senator Lodges's Speech on the Venezuelan Question
• Life's Ways Are One
• American Catholic Journalism
• Editorials
• Book Notices
• Alumni Notes
• College Notes
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Advertisements

The Purple, January 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:

• Contents
• News of the Month
• Jim. A Homely Tale of Christmas-Time
• The Dying Year
• My Happy Christmas
• A Thought
• A Strange Visitor
• The Price of a Friend
• Vale Atque Salve
• Songs to the Christ-Child
• The Shepherds' Watch
• A Panel of Christmas Pastels
• The Aged Man and the Child
• Eugene Field and Father Prout
• Editorials
• Exchange Notes
• Book Notices
• Alumni Notes
• College Notes
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Advertisements

The Purple, December 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:

• Contents
• News of the Month
• The Origin of "Rhetoricians' Night"
• Hecuba
• Reveries
• "Horace and Some English Satirists"
• Eugene Field
• The Glory of Athens
• Light in Darkness
• Life in Alaska
• The Book Mark
• "How Far Should We Countenance Roman Catholics"
• Editorials
• Exchange Notes
• Alumni Notes
• "Rhetoricians' Night"
• College Notes
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Advertisements

The Purple, November 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:

• Contents
• News of the Month
• The Catholic Leaven in English Letters
• Death of Hector
• A College Library
• My Death
• The Ancient Mariner
• The Fall of the Leaves
• Two Scientists
• Hallowe'en
• The Liberty Bell's Trip
• John Keats
• Book Notices
• Editorials
• Exchanges
• Obituary
• Alumni Notes
• College Notes
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Advertisements

The Purple, October 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:

• Table of Contents
• News of the Month
• The Assumption
• Wherefore Rejoice?
• The Story of Guadalupe
• The New Moon
• The Valkyries
• A New Student in the New Tower
• Dolorosa
• A Holy Cross Boy's Impression of the Atlanta Exposition
• Comments on the "Eutropius"
• Ellhnikon Dpama En Worcester "O Egtpopios"
• The Poems
• Editorials
• How the New York Sun Sees Us
• Obituary: Rev. Hugo D. Langlois, S.J., Rev. Robert Fulton, S.J.
• College Notes
• Alumni Notes
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Advertisements

The Purple, July 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:

• Commencement Day
• Governor Greenhalge's Speech
• Inauguration in Education
• Character in Education
• Necessity of Political Integrity
• The Preservation of the Republic
• The Valedictory
• A Retrospect
• Facts That Are Suggestive
• The Siren's Song
• The Word Not to be Spoken
• New England Weather
• Soliloquy of Prometheus
• The Earthly Rose
• Dufour's French Books
• Essays
• Degrees Conferred
• Honors and Honor Men
• Advertisements
• Facsimile of program for Eutropius

The Purple, June 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
• The Catholic Church the Mother of Our Liberties
• Fads and Fashions as They Affect Our Lives
• Reflections on Old Oxford
• A Page in the Geological History of Massachusetts
• Where Shall We Spend Our Summer?
• Where Shall We Make Our Professional Studies?
• Our Congratulations
• Butter-Cup and the Dew Drop
• Song to My Flute
• Faith, Hope and Charity
• Nostri Novem Optimi
• By the Sea
• The Notables of Ninety-Six
• The Philomathic Debate
• Athletics
• Alumni Notes
• Advertisements …

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, April 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
• Gladstone's Horace
• My Favorit POet?
• Jamaica of Fact and Fiction
• Picture for Easter
• Holy Cross College
• Old Oxford
• A Bit of Romance (A Story)
• College Spirit
• Grata Vice Veris et Favoni
• We Shall Meet Again
• The Day of Days
• Spring Poets
• Latin Conversation
• The Purple Medal
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Alumni Notes
• Advertisements