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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

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

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

The Purple, March 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:

• To an Easter Lily
• Macbeth
• The Office Boy
• A Poet-Priest
• A Son of Erin
• Difficulties
• "Causes Leading to the Perfection of French Classic Prose"
• The Awakening
• A Reminiscence
• Briefs
• Sunset
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Purple, February 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:

• Edgar Allan Poe - An Appreciation
• The Cousins
• Gifts
• The Tailsman
• A Degenerate
• Briefs
• Editorial
• Resolutions
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

January 18, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Abbie writes to Mrs. Tibbets about the "glorious" scenery where she is staying. She writes of the mountains, streams, tall oak trees, and blossoms as the season changes from winter to spring.

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

December 26, 1906, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets to thank her for the Christmas gifts. She describes the table that they set for a traditional western-style Christmas. They invited a Japanese couple, who were described by Cora to be very fascinated with the Christmas decor. She also tells Mrs. Tibetts about her coming vacation with George to Oshima, as there is a volcano there that they are intending to climb.

The Purple, December 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:

• Queen of Heaven
• Mrs. Craigie-A Tribune
• Dreams
• A Christmas Song
• Reflections on Socrates
• The Star
• Ave Maris Stella
• A Scion of Nemesis
• A Little White Chapel
• A Subject
• Christmas Bells
• Briefs
• Under the Rose
• Christmas Morn
• Editorial
• In Memoriam
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Purple, October 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:

• Bishop-Elect Walsh
• Aubrey De Vere's Place in English Poetry
• When Autumn Leaves Begin to Fall
• 'Tis an Ill Wind That Blows No-body Good
• An Elegy on Vacation
• A Fateful Vote
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Editor's Note-book
• Athletics

The Purple, June 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:

• The Ballad of the Romut Clan
• The Eye of Aristotle
• Beside the Haunted Rivulet
• J. Fenimore Cooper
• Tale of a New Woman
• Retribution
• In Boyhood Days
• "Wuthering Heights"-A Literary Curiosity
• The Pessimist
• A Summer Episode
• To J.E.
• As Others See Us
• Beside a Haunted Rivulet
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, May 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:

• 'Tis the May-Time
• Tige
• Wanderlust
• On the Various Forms of Government
• The Refrain of the Frog
• Musing
• In May Meadows
• Back to His Own
• An Aspiration
• The Holy Cross Club of New York
• My Sweetheart
• Reunion of the Class of '96
• Rev. Edward McTammany, S.J.
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, April 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:

• The Voice of Night
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
• April Fooling
• Edgar Allan Poe
• April Fool's Day
• An Adventure
• Very Rev. Joseph F. Hanselman, S.J.
• The Underclassman's Horse
• Boileau: Poet-Critic
• Nigh Rivulets
• The Exile
• Under the Rose
• The Aeronauts
• A Floweret Gay
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• 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, December 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:

• Christmas Sonnets
• A Psychological Study
• Back From the Cyclops Land
• An Artist and a Picture
• Ergasilus
• Life
• An Interrupted Visit
• A Lone Floret
• Mayor Duggan
• Editorial
• The Star
• Unto the Light
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, November 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 Autobiography of a Nightingale
• Getting the Story
• The Catholic Layman
• Two Conventions-And a Third
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Obituary
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics