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The Purple, December 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:

• Some Thirty Years Ago
• A Foot-ball Soliloquy
• The Story of the Class Journal
• From Rome to Ireland
• The Locomotive's Christmas Whistle
• A Football Game (?) Played at Christmas, A. D. 1400
• Bill Brown's Campaign
• Ballade
• Christmas: A Short History
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• A Tribute of Gratitude
• Photograph of 1898-99 Football team, A.B.R. Sprague, Irving Swan Brown, Henry S. Pratt, Matthew B. Lamb, A.A. McLoughlin, John F. Harrigan, Daniel Downey, Rev. T.J. Campbell SJ …

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1898 -- Vol. 21, No. 01, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

This item is part of the Phi Sigma collection at the College Archives & Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. Contact archives@colum.edu for more information and to view the collection.

The Purple, November 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:

• Some Uses and Abuses of Novel-Reading
• Villanelle
• College Athletics-Are They Good or Bad?
• A Dream of Football
• Some Personal Experiences of a Surgeon in the Late War
• The Happy Leaves
• Was Gladstone's Attitude Toward the Church Honest and Consistent?
• Rondeau
• Campaigning With the 12th U.S. Infantry
• Rondeau
• The Snowflakes
• Editorials
• The College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• From the Editor's Table
• Photographs of Peter O'Shea '92, Thomas P. Conneff '96, Rev. James Healy '49,

Volume information appears …

The Purple, October 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:

• The Imagination; Its Importance and Its Cultivation
• Campaigning with the 12th U.S. infantry
• Dear Little Rose
• What Have the Monks Done for English Literature?
• Ballade
• A Few Phases of Senior Life at Holy Cross
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• The Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• From the Editor's Table
• A Strange Communication
• Photographs of rooms in Fenwick Hall, Allie H. Farmer '98

Volume information appears on p. 93.

The Purple, July 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:

• The Year Endeth
• Commencement Week
• Alma's Blessing to '98
• Materialism and Its Tendencies
• The Song of June
• The Catholic College Graduate
• Loyalty
• Socialism and Christianity
• The Purpose of the College
• The Yankee Eight
• The Catholic Church and the Working Boy
• "He Hath Done All Things Well"
• An Old University
• Class of '98
• The Purple-Prize Winners
• The Staff of '97-'98
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Photographs of Class of 1898, Class of 1900, students,Camera Club, emblem of …

The Purple, June 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:

• The B.J.F.- Its Dawn
• A Token of Sentiment Reciprocated
• The Lawyer
• The Gallant Mac's and O's
• Honorary Members of the B.J.F.
• Invito A Venire In Sorrento
• B.J.F. of War Days
• Popular Fallacies About Lawyers
• Yellowmania
• Purple Patches
• To My T.D.
• The College Man and Life's Problems
• To Keats
• Early Dramatic Clubs
• "The Dramatic" of the Sixties
• To T.J.S.
• The Actor and the Orator
• The Philomathic
• League of the Sacred Heart
• B.V.M. Sodality
• Pyramid of Caius Cestius
• Our …

The Purple, May 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:

• The Hand of the King
• The River
• The Renaissance
• A Tear
• A Clever "Reuben"
• Sigh-Born Dreams
• The Church, The Mother of Culture
• Waiting
• "For the Right"
• Ellen
• One Hundred Dollars in Gold
• Local Alumni Associations
• Notice
• Alumni
• L'Addio A Sorrento
• College Chronicle
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Editor's Table
• Advertisements

Volume information appreas on p. 330.

Gerald Harrington Beard Correspondence To Phi Sigma, Phi Sigma, Gerald Harrington Beard

Selected Letters

This letter, written by founding member Gerald Harrington Beard, was sent to Phi Sigma in 1898 as a response to an invitation for the twentieth anniversary banquet of Phi Sigma. Although Beard was unable to attend the event, he shared his memories of the founding and early history of Phi Sigma in this letter.

The Purple, April 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:

• Reading Biography
• Easter Morn
• On the High Seas
• In March
• One American Essayist-Miss Repplier
• The Maine
• The Castle of Rhinefel Isle
• Remorse
• Charlemagne and the Revival of Learning
• The Sailor's Hymn
• The Violet
• General Rosecrans
• A Protest
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Advertisements

Volume information appears on p. 267.

The Purple, March 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:

• Herr Hahmmer and Others
• The Great Novel-Satirist
• Hope's Story
• The Gentle Art of Whistling
• Coasting
• Under the Wild Forget-Me-Nots
• At Eventide
• My Own True Love
• A Thought
• The Maine
• Catholic Books in Public Libraries
• The Deaf Mutes
• For the Old Boys Again
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Editor's Table
• Advertisements

Volume information appears on p. 187.

The Purple, February 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:

• Some Educational Fables
• Long Ago
• That Team Race
• Ballad of the Old Year
• "The Augustan Literary Circle."
• Fiesole
• Hope
• Counsel For the Defense
• Memories of Home
• Statesman, Scholar, Saint
• The Sacrifice
• A Sign of the Times
• The New Term
• Modesty and Gratitude
• For the Old Boys Only
• The Alumni
• College Chronicle
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Editor's Table
• Advertisements

Volume information appears on p. 118.

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

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History Of The Phi Sigma Class, Phi Sigma

Selected Letters

This unauthored document provides details about the history, founding, and early day of Phi Sigma.