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Ua98 1909 Talisman, Potter College For Young Ladies

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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

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1908 --, 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 [email protected] for more information and to view the collection.

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

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 Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1907 --, 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 [email protected] for more information and to view the collection.

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.

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. V. No. 3, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Pillsbury, Agatha. Art & Life
• Smith, Mary. Mandy’s Wedding
• Stevens, India. Home Sweet Home
• Buchanan, Pauline. The Mammoth Cave Trip
• YWCA Notes
• Ossolian Society
• Hypatian Society
• Delta Pi Kappa
• Mu Phi Psi
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Serenades
• Irregular Entertainment
• Lost River
• Senior Banquet – Class of 1907 (PC)
• Senior Day
• Flag Rush – From the Junior Point of View
• Jokes
• Mrs. Amy Henschel’s Home-Coming
• Personals
• Exchanges
• Teachers’ Recital
• Thanksgiving Program
• Recital Potter …

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

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. V, No. 2, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• McKinney, Luna. The Nineteenth Century Modification of the Epic: The Ring & the Book
• Compensation
• Stevens, India. A Pleasant Prescription
• Gay Motes that People the Sunbeams
• Epler, Clara. A Realized Ideal
• Lewis, Lena. January Nineteenth
• Bryan, Helen. A Year in the Philippines
• Patterson, Maggie. Aunt Hannah’s Experience
• Mu Phi Psi
• Sigma Theta Phi
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Delta Pi Kappa
• New Year Reception
• Presbyterian Reception
• YWCA Notes
• In Memoriam – Alice Moore …

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 Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1906 -- Vol. 30, 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 [email protected] for more information and to view the collection.

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. V, No. 1, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Teddy Bears
• Byrd, Nettie. Old Foes with New Faces
• Galceran, Marie. Physics
• Gardner, Jessie. Unfinished Business
• Gorin, Rebecca. The Song of a Bard
• Edrington, May. A Boarding School Tragedy
• Senior Class – Class of 1907 (PC)
• Junior Class – Class of 1908 (PC)
• Sophomore Class – Class of 1909 (PC)
• Freshman Class – Class of 1910 (PC)
• Hypatian Society
• Ossolian Society
• YWCA Notes
• Methodist Reception
• New Girls’ Reception to the Old …

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