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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

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

Chronicles, Phi Sigma, Amelia A. Fitch

Selected Letters

Amelia A. Fitch wrote a history about Phi Sigma for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the group.

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

Carlos P. Sawyer Correspondence To Phi Sigma, Phi Sigma, Carlos P. Sawyer

Selected Letters

Carlos P. Sawyer, an early member of Phi Sigma, wrote this letter to Phi Sigma as a response to an invitation for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the group. In this letter, Sawyer explains his recollections of the history of Phi Sigma.

William Harrington Beard Correspondence To Phi Sigma, Phi Sigma, William Harrington Beard

Selected Letters

William Harrington Beard, a founding member of Phi Sigma, wrote this letter as a reply to an invitation for the twenty-fifth anniversary banquet of the group. Although Beard was unable to attend the event, he shared his memories of the group's history in addition to well wishes for its future.

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

The Purple, May 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:

• The Musical Element of Poetry as Found in Tennyson
• In Friendship's Cause
• To My Mother
• The Same Old Falsehood
• Pliny and Addison
• My College Love
• Editorial
• The Queen and the Belle
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• Athletics

The Purple, April 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:

• Christ is Risen!
• Three Philosophies of Life-To Get, To Know, To Be
• A Legend of the Cheyenne
• At Holy Cross
• St. Thomas Aquinas
• Mr. Doucett
• Kind Words
• The Stowaway
• A Retrospect
• Wordsworth's Intimations of Immortality
• To Mt. Greylock
• The Good Old TImes
• Easter Joy
• Spirit Becoming to Easter
• The Ethics of the Athletic Arena
• College Chronicle
• Alumni

The Purple, March 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:

• Southern Songs and Singers
• Train 98
• A Word About Father John Power
• In Memoriam
• The Doctor's Story
• The Brown-Holy Cross Debate
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Prelude to May
• Irving's Place Among English Writers

The Purple, February 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:

• An Educational Rebirth
• A Comparison Between Milton's Lucifer and Dante's Satan
• The Web of Penelope
• The Winter Wind
• The Wreck of "Nelly Joyce"
• Chaucer's Portrait of the Monks
• In Memoriam
• Editorial
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• Athletics

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1901 -- Vol. 25, 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 1901

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
• A Mother's Love
• From Amiens to Trinity
• A Dream
• The Story of the Sword
• Thanksgiving
• Dante's and Milton's Hell
• In Memoriam
• Fair Play
• 'Twas Not Ever Thus
• Truth Stranger Than Fiction
• As Others See US
• Prologue
• College Chronicle
• Alumni

The Purple, November 1901

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 Holy Grail
• Bishop Thomas J. Conaty
• Bishop Conaty
• A Hard-Earned Lesson
• On Revisiting Holy Cross
• Pioneers in Elementary Education
• Three Links From a Life's Chain
• Judge Timothy F. McDonough
• Editorial
• Catholic Truth in a New Work
• An Advocate of Classical Education
• The Perpetuity of the Republic
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, October 1901

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 Century of Primary Schooling
• The John J. Power Scholarship
• A Prayer of Mary Queen of Scots
• The Judge's Dilemma
• The Lord Has Passed-Will He Come Again?
• Fr. Lehy-Fr Hanselman
• To A Grecian Shield
• A Package of Letters
• Rev. Joseph J. Rice, D.D.
• In Greeting
• Some Applications of "College Spirit"
• Monsignor Conaty in Mechanics Hall
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, July 1901

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 Wreck
• Scene at Commencement
• Mission of the Catholic Press
• The May-Tide Wind
• An Incident
• Lines
• Editorial
• Athletic Comment
• Book Reviews

The Purple, May 1901

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:

• Brown-Holy Cross Debate
• Song of the Norsemen
• Guy De Maupassant
• Mnemosyne
• When Darkness Has Shut Out the Day
• Editorial
• In Memoriam
• College Chronicle
• Athletic Comment

The Purple, April 1901

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 Persian Style
• A Chapter in the History of Holy Cross
• Prelude to May
• Irving's Place Among English Writers
• A Royal Estate
• A Martyr for a Deception
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletic Comment

The Purple, March 1901

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 Parting
• Emulation of Models
• The Midnight Hymn
• Twilight Memories
• The Tale of an Arrow
• The Great Irish Rebel
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletic Comment