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The Lotus, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

The 1910 yearbook for Rhode Island School of Design, called The Lotus, included hand drawn illustrations, student-submitted entries, descriptions of each department in the school, lists of students and faculty, descriptions of popular social events, and advertisements. Also included was a calendar of events for the school year. Poems and short stories were also in this yearbook.

The Purple, November 1909

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 Story November Tells
• A Night in the Open
• That Indefinite Little They
• An Autumn Idyl
• The Gray Coat
• On Board The Sky-Flyer
• Pipes 'o Pompey
• Buckwheat Cakes 'nSausage
• Apple Butteh Bilin'
• The Reaper
• Dodwell Hall
• Tome Pedantry
• To a Child
• The Procrastinator
• The Bric-À-Brac of Life
• My Thanksgiving
• Four Bells
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics
• Winter Wizardry

The Purple, June 1909

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 Knights Who Ride To-day
• The Pity of It
• Charles Tennyson Turner
• Pipes o' Pompey
• Fo'f o' July
• Picknick Time
• Mammy's Li'l Rose
• Rings and the Man
• Going to Sleep
• "Omne Ignotum Pro Magnifico Est"
• To the Class of 1909, On Graduating
• Shapes in the Sunset
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, April 1909

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:

• My Violin
• The Automobile-a Blow to Literature
• The Sunbeam
• The Laborer's Son
• Pipe's o' Pompey
• Pompey's Pociferation
• A Pagan Christian
• Oedipus
• Song for Returning Spring
• And Such Power Hath Pride
• The Witching Hour
• The Ethics of Newspaper Editing
• Our Graphophone
• Two Letters
• An Easter Lily
• A la Mode
• The Poet
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, March 1909

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 Black Banshee
• The Morris Chair
• The Matchman
• Restcom Bailey
• Dirge and Carol
• Pipes o' Pompey
• D' Ol' Songs
• Edward Fitzgerald-The Poet
• The Pathway to the Light
• The Trout Brook
• What's in a Smile?
• From the Speech of Robert Emmet
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics
• Easter Carol

The Purple, February 1909

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 Death of Lincoln
• Romancing
• G'on Home, Groun'-hawg!
• Horace and the Subway
• "But the 'Old Grand' Knows"
• On Florida in the Water Gypsy
• Pompey's Valentine
• The Magician
• A Vicious Circle
• Friendship
• The Light That Leads
• The Needy Poor
• Iquisitiveness
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

Italian Hours, Henery James, Joseph Pennell, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

ix, 504 pages, [32] color plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. "The chapters of which this volume is composed have with few exceptions already been collected." -Preface.

Ua98 1909 Talisman, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

1909 Talisman yearbook produced by the Potter College for Young Ladies.

• Faculty
• Talisman Staff
• Brief History of Potter College
• Teachers & Officers
• Departments
• Class of 1909
• Senior Class History
• Falter, Elizabeth. Incarnation
• Ballard, Trudie. WIll of Class of 1909
• Junior Class
• Hogin, Inamay. Junior Class History
• Sophomore Class
• Keith, Katherine. Nineteen Hundred & Eleven
• Freshman Class
• Mitchell, Katherine. Freshman Class History
• Specials & Irregulars
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Sigma Iota Chi
• Eta Upsilon Gamma
• Phi Mu Gamma
• Cabell, Benjamin. Compensation
• Young Women's Christian Association
• Hypatian Literary Society
• Ossolian Society
• Green & Gold Staff
• Tennis Club
• Basketball
• Bowling Club
• Departments
• To the …

The Purple, January 1909

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:

• On Hearing Mendelssohn
• A Tithe For Winter
• The Holidays: Before and After
• A Sorry Convention
• An Unconventional Meeting
• Pompey's Post-Prandial
• In a Taxicab
• A Breach of Promise
• Vigils
• The Warning
• Over the Telephone
• Four O'Clock
• My Mother
• Sections From the Mss. of the Late Francis P. McKeon, '79
• By Decklin's Waters
• A Page From a Modern Donatus
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

Alaska-Yukon-Pacific World's Fair Exposition Seattle (1909) Ceramic Plate, Adams, Tunstall England, Special Collections, Fleet Library

World's Fairs

Ceramic plate produced for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (Seattle 1909), pottery mark on back: Adams Tunstall, England, made for The Bon Marché, Seattle, Washington. Features the Exposition seal, designed by Adelaide Hanscom. Adelaide described her winning event seal logo: The figure to the right typifies the Pacific Slope with right hand extended in welcome, and the left holding a train of cars, representing commerce by land. The figure to the left represents the Orient, and the ship in her hand represents commerce by sea. The central figure in white is that of Alaska, the white representing the North and the nuggets …

Ethel Warnock's Scrapbook 1909-1910, Ethel Warnock

Scrapbooks

Ethel Warnock went to Belmont College for Young Women during the 1909-1910 school year. She created this scrapbook during her time there

Frances Cox's Scrapbook 1910-1911, Frances Cox

Scrapbooks

Frances Cox attended Belmont College for Young Women from 1909-1910.

The Purple, November 1908

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:

• Early November
• Thanksgiving Day
• Pompey's Thanksgiving
• The Phantom Engine
• 'Twas Pretty Costly!
• Mrs. -, née Porter
• Packachoag, A.D., 3956
• An Autumn Eventide
• An Autumn Thought
• A Night in a Library
• May Isabelle
• Noah Webster
• Two Connections
• The Spirit of the Times
• Two Deaths
• "Rummaging Through an Old Garret
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, December 1908

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:

• Christmas Night
• Yule-tide's Rosemary and Rue
• To Be, and Then Not to Be
• 'Retro me, Sathana!'
• Com' On, Cris'mus!
• "Ever as You and I"
• Sunshine and Shadow
• A Night Scene
• A Merry Xmas
• The Assistant Manager
• New Year's Day
• Remember Me
• Cosecantangleism
• A Modern Magus
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, October 1908

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:

• October
• Summer Speculations
• The Road to Yesterday
• Reflections on the Vacation
• When Betty Sings
• Autumn
• Mr. Wright's Story
• Time and Tide
• Dante
• The Plagiarist
• Dante
• The Centenary of the Archdiocese of Boston
• That Taking Way
• Going Home
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, June 1908

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:

• Lord Kelvin
• Verone
• Confessions of a Procrastinator
• A Student's Plea For Intercollegiate Athletics
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, May 1908

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 Nun
• Annual Play
• My Dreamland Home
• Ability
• Robert E. Lee
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, April 1908

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 Founder
• Would I Were There!
• The Wise Man's Son
• The Mist
• Occupations of Poets
• Where My Heart Is
• Bravest Deed of History
• Jerry From Kerry
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, March 1908

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:

• Ode to Ireland
• How We Get the News
• The Golden West
• The Favorite
• Wander-Lust
• A Brave Night's Work
• Home
• His House of Cards
• Good-bye to Winter
• Rev. Robert Walsh
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, February 1908

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:

• Pleasure
• "Father Van"
• The Tale of a Valentine
• Hegio : A Character Study
• To -
• The Brown Jug
• The Guile of Earth
• Lincoln's Day : A Commemoration
• Not For Me
• Friendship
• An Irish Lullaby
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

Helen Marx's Scrapbook 1908-1911, Helen Marx

Scrapbooks

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, January 1908

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 Winter Day
• Plato as a Literary Artist
• Twilight Dreams
• By the Camp-Fire
• The Poetry of Lord Tennyson
• Indian Missions in the United States
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

Flower Of The Dusk, Myrtle Reed, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Illustration

iv, 341 pages : color frontispiece illustration. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Decorated cloth binding signed by the designer: MA [Margaret Armstrong]. Lilac color cloth binding, lettering and illustration emboss in white and gold. Title page and text pages printed in black and red, all pages in frames. Top edge of text block gold gilt. Inside front cover, large bookplate of Gladys and Herbert Clark. Library copy printed October 1910. Case binding.

The Purple, December 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:

• The Message of the Bells
• Farewell to Autumn
• The Man Before the Gun
• The Power of an Ideal
• A Dream of June
• In the Dawn
• A Purist
• A Noteworthy Publication
• Mandy's Grave
• The Carollers
• The Scenes of Long Ago
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, November 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:

• Virginia
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich - His Life and Poetry
• All Soul's Day
• Fred Hughes, Quitter
• Souls in Purgatory
• The Story of a Snowflake, or Rather of Two
• The Autumn That I Know
• Two Letters
• "Dute"
• A Western Farmer Before the Turkey
• Holy Cross Night
• Under the Rose
• The Landlubbers
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

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

July 23, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets about her vacation trip from where she was staying in Tokyo to several different places around Japan. She writes of her stay in a Japanese style hotel. She also writes about the scenery around her, and about how long it takes her by rail to get to her travel destinations. She also writes of a traveling companion named George, and how she has invited Abbie to come and visit her and meet George.

The Purple, June 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:

• Commencement
• John Henry Newman
• A Spring Morning
• "Fatty"
• Louis Pasteur
• A Flyer in Stocks
• Rob Roy
• In Memoriam
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• The Reception to Cardinal Gibbons
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

April 11, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets about life in Japan. She writes about the climate, and how she finds she cannot do as much due to the "enervating" nature of the climate there. She describes a "sword walking" ceremony, in which one climbs a ladder made of swords. She then writes of the beginnings of spring in Japan and how there is a fair coming to Japan, "the largest ever held in Japan."

The Purple, April 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:

• Spring
• Mangan and His Poetry
• As Horace Says
• The Birth of the Daffodil
• The Chivalrous Chauffeur
• The South Wind
• To James S. Sullivan, M. D.
• The Poet
• On Holy Thursday
• Spring Thoughts From Horace
• A Hidden Sense
• The New-Born Rose
• Briefs
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics