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The Purple, June 1917

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:

• Linden Lane at Holy Cross
• "Getting Up"
• Man of Bronze
• My Brother in Grey
• The Mole and the Bat
• Savoyan Songs
• The Cult of Cacography
• An Idyll
• You?
• Il Diaggio dell' Anima
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Images; Winners of the B.J.F. Debate, The Class of 1917, The Holy Cross Tennis Team

The Purple, May 1917

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:

• Maying Time
• Brains vs. Brawn
• The Loom of Time
• Spats
• Dreams
• Savoyan Songs
• "Book Bindings"
• Passers-by
• On Cramming
• My Choice
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Advertisements
• Image; The Holy Cross Purple Staff

The Purple, April 1917

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 for Rector's Day
• Voices of Youth
• The Scoop
• Savoyan Songs
• Treasures
• My Gentle Readers
• To Clare, Candle-Wishes
• Whispers
• Essay
• Wanted: A Manager!
• Spring's Triumphal March
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Images; Interclass Basketball Champions, Track Captain, Rev. Dr. Patrick B. Phelan, '69

The Purple, February 1917

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:

• Charity
• The Bronze-Man
• A Winter Idyl
• The Great American home
• Savoyan Songs
• Modern versus Method
• Sonnet to a Babe
• For a Wedding Anniversary
• Doubts and Mysteries
• A Winter Minster
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

Marguerite Griffith's Scrapbook 1917-1918, Marguerite Griffith

Scrapbooks

Marguerite, born in 1901 in Huntington, West Virginia, attended Ward Belmont during the 1917-1918 school year. She married Harry D. Witherspoon on September 15, 1920, and they moved to California. They had two children: Merilyn and Sara Patricia Witherspoon. They moved to North Carolina where Harry worked as a manager. Marguerite died in 1954 with her husband Harry followed in 1956.

The Purple, January 1917

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:

• "Render to Caesar-"
• A Simple Tale
• Savoyan Songs
• The Double Cross
• Poets Unsung
• The Canadian 'Habitant' In William H. Drummond's Works
• In the Wounded's Tent
• A Corner in Horses
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Alumni Directory
• Image; Our Record-Breaking Relay Team

The Purple, December 1916

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 Campus Clock
• Goblins
• A Christmas Song
• The Education of the Physician
• A Crusader to His Love
• The Point of View
• Ballad of a Train
• Mr. Franck and Mexico
• Gifts
• The Return of Emmet Guards
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Images; Bowdoin-Holy Cross Game, Debate Team

November 15, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, dated to approximately 1916, Abbie writes to Mrs. Tibbets about several topics, including her teaching job, attending an exhibition, seeing the Emperor pass on the street, tea services, and describes in detail her accommodations. She says that she is very happy in Japan now that she is more used to the climate.

The Purple, November 1916

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:

• To C. La F-
• "Signals Over"
• A Lullaby
• The Higher Heroism
• November Snows
• A Pipe and a Precipice
• Storms
• An Essay
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Images; Scenes From the Princeton-Holy Cross Football Game, Richard Healy

The Purple, October 1916

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:

• To Thomas P. McCue
• A Visit to a Chinese Leper Settlement
• The Flight of Summer
• An Autumn Song
• The Art of Prudence
• Old Hudson Rovers
• A Tribute
• Barber-Shop Chords
• Seasons Three
• In Memoriam
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Alumni Directory
• A Woodland Idyl

The Purple, June 1916

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
• Advertisements
• Bancroft Tower
• Mickey
• The Black Soutane
• Imagination in Business
• Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
• Lost Thoughts
• When the Gods Smiled
• The Temple
• An Unsung Song
• The Riddle and the Answer
• A Spanish Dramatist
• Prize Competition Songs
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, May 1916

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
• Advertisements
• An Address to young Lawyers
• Reveille
• The Light of Ages
• "Alas for the Rarity of Christian Charity"
• The First Flower
• A Modern Polycletus
• Mercury at a Baseball Game
• Cain
• Ink
• Prize Competition Songs
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, April 1916

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
• Giuseppe
• Ode to Shakespeare
• Shakespeare at Holy Cross
• Sparks From a Whetstone
• Stars
• The King of Life and Death
• Tercentenaries Twain
• When the Gods Smiled
• Prize Competition Songs
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, March 1916

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
• Advertisements
• The Awakening Blossom
• My Class Room Desk
• The Poetry of Joyce Kilmer
• In the Land Beyond
• Idols
• The Balance
• By the Strand
• In Memoriam
• When the Gods Smiled
• The Wave of Life
• Hope
• Father Luis Coloma, S.J.
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, February 1916

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
• Advertisements
• Our Lady's Mite
• Pickin's of a Pixie
• Hero
• The Violet's Birth
• "Once Upon a Time-"
• "Shucks"
• Withered Irish Rose
• Jesuits With the Poets
• The Irish Heart
• Er
• A Valentine
• When the Gods Smiled
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

Hattye Mae White Scrapbook 1916-1918, Hattye Mae White

Scrapbooks

Hattye Mae White was born in San Antonio, Texas on October 16, 1897. She attended Ward-Belmont during the 1916-1917 school year. She married Charles Cousins Johnson Jr. on September 7, 1918, and the pair had one son, Captain Charles Cousins III, born August 2, 1919. Captain Cousins would later die during World War II. Hattye Mae White Johnson died on June 23, 1979, in Texas.

Jessie Whitesell Scrapbook - 1916-1951, Jessie Whitesell

Scrapbooks

Jessie Whitesell went to Ward-Belmont during the 1916-1917 school year. While there are a few elements in the book from her time as a student, the scrapbook mostly details the closing of Ward-Belmont as it went through its transformation to Belmont College.

The Purple, January 1916

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
• Advertisements
• The Soul of the Living New Year
• Pickin's of a Pixie
• The Prospect
• The New Sodalist
• The Way to Peace
• The Thoroughbreds
• The Countersign
• The Passing of the Year
• Communications
• Captain-elect Devlin-Insert
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• "Letter" Men of 1915 Football Squad-Insert

The Purple, December 1915

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
• Advertisements
• Home for the Holidays
• Pablo's Christmas Gift
• Senior Class Song
• Pickin's of a Pixie
• The Midnight Mass
• A Forest Tragedy
• A Graduate's Confession
• The Hand Beautiful
• "Peace on Earth"
• Our Purple Banner
• Sparks from a Whetstone
• Books and the Undergraduate
• A Christmas Gift
• Christmastide
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Chronicle
• Gov. Walsh and Guest Saluting Guardsmen. Illustration
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, November 1915

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
• Advertisements
• The Lure of Cinders
• Pickin's of a Pixie
• Nugae et Alia
• A Halloween Party
• Jean Henri Fabre
• The Wreck
• At the Soda Fountain
• Autumn
• Chapelle de Marie
• The Dawning
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Interclass Track Meet - Illustration
• Chronicle
• Alumni
• 1915 Baseball Team - Illustration
• Athletics

The Purple, October 1915

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 Green Brigade
• Thorubosopolis
• My Lady's
• Estelle: A Seashore Idyl
• By Ingold's Cut
• His Last Public Utterance
• The Hunter's Song
• Americanization
• Rain
• Sporting Blood
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Thanksgiving
• Athletics

The Purple, June 1915

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 Dawn
• The Facts About Cock Robin
• Song of the Train
• A Memorable Wooing
• Rose of Joy
• His Posthumous Heroism
• The Fool
• Athorubosopolis
• His Mother's Boy
• The Legend of Mount St. James
• Communications
• Editorial
• Wheat and Tares
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Arroama
• Athletics

The Purple, May 1915

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 Baculomaniac
• Spring
• Me Little Irish Mother
• After Office Hours
• The Poet's Prayer
• To a Violet
• "Our Poet Priest'
• Glenamaddy
• Sweet Robin
• Case and Triple G
• O Seeing a Butterfly
• Song of the East Wind
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Wheat and Tares
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Arroama
• Athletics

The Purple, April 1915

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 Wake at Carbon Camp
• Discontent
• Greek, Greaves and Grievances
• To My Violin
• The Art of Profitable Reading
• The Forsaken Wood
• The Incorrigible Corrigons
• Wanderlust
• Shakespeare and Irish Music
• Mother's Lament
• Communications
• Editorial
• Wheat and Tares
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Arroama
• Athletics
• Awakening

The Purple, March 1915

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:

• Death, the Lover
• Erin's Apostle
• The Call of Traumerei
• Blow, Balmy Winds
• When Men Go Mad
• To Sleep
• His Latest Victim
• Precursor
• Thanatos
• Our Common Enemy
• Night
• Memories of Erin
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Wheat and Tares
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Arroama
• Athletics

The Purple, February 1915

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 Purple Rialto
• Made in the U.S.A.
• The Wandering Minstrel
• The Man in the Box
• Tady the Gom
• Nobody
• Winter
• His Little Joke
• "Each Pearl a Prayer"
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Wheat and Tears
• College Chronicle
• Off to the War
• Alumni Arroama
• Athletics

Myrtle Conyers' Scrapbook 1915-1916, Myrtle Conyers

Scrapbooks

Myrtle Conyers attended Ward-Belmont for two years, 1914-1916.

Judith And Emily Jordan's Scrapbook 1915-1918, Judith Jordan, Emily Jordan

Scrapbooks

Judith (1895-1938) and Emily Jordan (1897-1977) were two sisters that attended Ward-Belmont during the 1915-1918 school years. Judith married Rivers McNeill Anderson and had three children: Bettie, Rivers and Judith. She died in 1938. Her sister Emily married James Anderson and the pair did not have any children. Emily died in 1977 while her husband passed a year later in 1978.

Rachel Abernathy's Scrapbook 1915-1916, Rachel Abernathy

Scrapbooks

Rachel Abernathy went to Ward-Belmont during the 1915-1916 school years. She created this scrapbook during her time there.

The Purple, January 1915

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 Ethics of War
• The Old Year is Dead
• Erin's Call
• "A New England Renaissance"
• The Coward
• The Age of Service
• Land o' My Dreams
• The Destroyer
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Wheat and Tares
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Arroama
• Athletics