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The Purple, October 1905

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 Repression of Individuality
• Rondeau
• An Episode
• I'll Ask Her
• The Christian Brothers and Their Work
• The Modern Student
• A Summer Incident
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Purple, June 1905

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:

• President Roosevelt at Commencement
• Oration
• An Ode
• Saved!
• A Spring-time Floret
• The Jew
• The City's Videttes
• The Oldest Alumnus of Mt. St. James
• Eily's Bridal Wreath
• The Church and the Drama
• The Song of the Aeronaut
• Alumni Hall
• The Even Time
• Editorial
• My Old Dudeen
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Purple, April 1905

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:

• Easter Morn
• National Spirit
• The Intercollegiate Debate
• The Snowflake
• St. Thomas on the Nature of the Soul
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Purple, March 1905

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:

• Unknown
• Dante Alighieri
• The Silver Lining
• The Cyclops to Noman
• The Trawlers-A Fantasy
• To Our Lyre
• An After-Dinner Thought
• An Evening Picture
• Moore's Melodies
• To Thomas Moore
• Life's Span
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Purple, February 1905

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:

• Ships of Life and Death
• Julius Caesar: A Symposium
• On the Eve of War
• Beyond the Surgeon's Knife
• To an Old Valentine
• Men I Have Met
• Brief Biographies of Early Americans
• A Tragi-Comedy
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Purple, January 1905

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:

• In the Long Years
• The Rubaiyat
• From a Freshman's Diary
• A Letter to Horace
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Exchanges

The Purple, December 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:

• The Golden Jubilee
• Our Lady in English Literature
• The Land of the Immaculate Conception
• The Saviour-Child
• Christmas Chimes
• The Evergreen-A Reverie
• Jack's Dream
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics
• Exchanges

The Purple, November 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:

• In the Long Years
• Two Songs: Spring
• Two Songs: Autumn
• Character
• The Serenade
• What's in a Name?
• My Mother
• Holy Cross Night
• The Guiding Light
• Under the Rose
• Lines
• Briefs
• Etchings
• A Senior's Dream
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Purple, October 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:

• Bishop Delaney
• In Memoriam
• Success
• The Deserted Castle
• The Historical Novel
• Klytemnnestra and Lady Macbeth
• Comfort
• Under the Rose
• Briefs
• The Class of 1904
• Editorial
• Friendship
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Purple, June 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:

• A Song
• James McNeil Whistler
• The Witnesses
• Boating Song
• Faltstaff and Zagloba
• The Last Good-bye
• A Brilliant Catholic Poet
• Can I Forget?
• Holy Cros at the St. Louis Exposition
• O Lily Fair
• To a Rivulet
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Purple, May 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:

• In Other Days
• Ivan Turgeneff
• The Combat: Night and Morning
• The Diary
• Rose Petals
• In the Glow of Candles
• The Lovers of Yesterday
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Exchanges
• 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, March 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:

• On a Picture of St. Joseph
• William Watson and His Poems
• Soldiers Two
• When the Tide Ebbed
• The Bandusian Fountain
• Henry Harland
• Aquinas
• Two Songs: Winter
• Two Songs: Summer
• Under the Rose
• I'm Asked to Sing
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Plato
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Exchanges
• Athletics

The Purple, February 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:

• The Violet's Lament
• Some Tendencies of Modern Fiction
• The Easy Sonnet-A Recipe
• Conquering a Prejudice
• If I Were Only King
• Under the Rose
• A Jacobite Toast
• Briefs
• Thy Perfections We Can Trace
• In Memoriam
• Rev. John Redican
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Alumni Hall
• Editor's Note-book
• Exchanges
• Athletics

The Purple, January 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:

• A New Year's Toast
• The Problem
• William Butler Years
• The Song of the Summer Day
• Across the Clearing
• Seeking For a Thought
• A Dream of Annihilation
• In Memoriam
• The Fingerless Hand
• Beyond the Stars
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Exchanges
• Athletics

Nell Robert’S Scrapbook, Nell Roberts

Scrapbooks

Nell Roberts was born on May 2, 1886, in Harriman, Tennessee. She attended Belmont College for Young Women during the 1904-1906 school years. After school, she married Charles W. Whitcomb and became a homemaker. The pair that three children: James, Dorothy, and Mary. Sadly, Nell died after an operation on January 7, 1929. Her husband would pass on March 28, 1959.

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, November 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:

• The Long Ago
• A Western Singer
• The Inauguration of Holy Cross Night
• Pedro and Maria
• A Chemical Formula
• Briefs
• Editorial
• Alumni
• First Holy Cross Night
• College Chronicle
• Athletics
• The Editor's Notebook
• Exchanges
• Sonnets for Christ-Tide

The Purple, October 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:

• A Sonnet for Sunset
• A Letter from the Philippines
• The Quarter-Back's Soliloquy
• The McGrath Scholarships
• The Federation of Catholic Societies
• Vox Dei
• In Memoriam
• Autumn
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, June 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:

• The Xaverian Brothers and Their Work in America
• Au Revoir
• Saint John Chrysostom
• Sea-Sonnets
• The Debates
• A May Lily
• The Victory
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, May 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:

• An American Singer
• Shattered Idols
• Mirth O' May
• Popular Errors About Classical Studies
• Fortune's Slave
• 1904's Class Dinner
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Exchanges
• Athletics

The Purple, April 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:

• A Trilogy of Miracles and Mysteries
• At Hawthorne's Grave
• The Captain's Story
• Suprema Leonis Vota
• Leo's Last Prayer
• Progress in Medieval Ties
• Mike
• Popular Errors About Classical Studies
• Editorial Studies
• College Chronicle
• Exchanges
• Athletics

The Purple, March 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:

• A Macaroni of Three Centuries Ago
• Impatience
• Whom Christ Loved
• The Education of Our Future Citizen
• Sailor's Day
• To Mount Wachusett
• The Primitive Condition of Man
• To Alma Mater
• Popular Errors About Classical Studies
• Vanity
• Editorial
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• 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, January 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:

• A New Year's Though
• The Proving of Talmers
• Our Lady's Lullaby
• Purgatorio
• Two Graves
• One Way to Win
• The Old Year
• The Trial of the Jacksons
• The Refrain of the Pig-Skin
• Editorial
• Alumni

The Purple, December 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:

• Dante and Poe
• A Night in a Country Store
• A Winter Idyl
• Aubrey De Vere
• Fons Bandusiae
• Editorial
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• Athletics
• The Freshman's Rubaiyat

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, October 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:

• Caesar in History and in Drama
• Letters to Dead Authors
• Hope
• Civil Liberty in France
• Editorial
• Alumni
• College Chronicle

The Purple, July 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:

• A Dream
• The Meaning of State Destiny
• A Cross
• Modern Scientific Materialism
• Philosophy as a Mental Training
• The Song of June
• Pope Leo on Modern Ideas
• The Senior's Prayer
• Commencement Day
• Editorial
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• Athletics

The Purple, June 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:

• Bishops' Day
• With Uncle Sam's Landsmen to Europe
• Reminiscences
• The Debates
• Ode to Holy Cross
• The Overrating of Addison
• Laeta Lux, Salve!
• Reconciled
• A Deed of War
• Editorial
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• Athletics