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The Purple, February 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 Reverend John B. Mullaly, S.J.
• A Cycle of Catholicity
• My Books
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• At Eventide
• Citizenship in the United States
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Athletics

The Purple, January 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 Harvard-Holy Cross Debate
• The Epiphany
• Two Heroes
• Contentment
• Essays and Essay-Writers
• Lines
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni

The Purple, December 1900

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 Ideal Orator
• To a Rose
• A Christmas Idyl
• At Christmas
• The Wanderer's Tale
• A Yule Tide
• Christmas in Other Days
• Christmas Bells
• Once in a Year
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, November 1900

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 French Colonel's Story
• The Chalice of Circe
• Freshman Memories-'77-'78
• To Maecenas
• A November Day Dream
• Life
• To My Pipe
• Letter to Horace
• Up the Mediterranean
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, October 1900

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:

• Rt. Rev. James Augustine Healy, D.D.
• The Autumn Leaf
• The Vesper Bell
• Reading and the Mind
• Holy Cross-A Reminiscence
• An Artist's Triumph
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, July 1900

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:

• Last Days of '99-'00
• The Bristol County Alumni Meeting
• Editorial
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, June 1900

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:

• Leaves From Early History
• What Was Best in My College Course
• College Associations
• The Dramatic Society
• Advanced!
• History of the Junior Banquets
• The Purple Prizes
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Athletics at Holy Cross a Quarter Century Ago
• Athletics

The Purple, May 1900

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 Poet of Mankind
• The Lament of Rizpah
• The Bard of the Fruitful Vine
• A May Legend
• A Phase of Fr. Sheehan's Writings
• On Finishing A Little Volume of Tennyson
• The Religion of Tennyson as Shown in the "In Memoriam"
• In Memoriam
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, April 1900

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 Player's Son
• The Resurrection Time
• Thought-Development in Tennyson's "Lotus Eaters"
• When My Ship Comes In
• The Good Luck of Armand De Cognac
• A Rose of Yesterday
• Letters to Living Writers
• Oh, For the Sigh of a Summer Breeze
• Newman and Cicero
• The Vampire
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics

The Purple, March 1900

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:

• Five Seeds of Tobacco
• The Critic's Dream
• Ashamed to Seem Generous
• Tenuis Avena
• The Good Luck of Armand De Cognac
• Greatness
• A Night of Horrors
• The Reaping of the Harvest
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• A Review of Track Athletics

The Purple, February 1900

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 Worcester County Alumni Association
• Spring Rondeaux
• Letters to Living Writers
• Tenuis Avena
• Toby
• A Race Reserved
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Question-Box

The Purple, January 1900

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 Characteristics of the Senior
• Letters to Living Writers
• From Anacreon
• The Americans of James Russell Lowell
• Youthful Dreams
• Two Ghost Stories
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Question Box

Volume information for this issue appears on p. 323

The Purple, December 1899

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:

• College Scenes, Old and New
• To Anglomania
• Letters to Living Writers
• When Christmas Time Comes 'Round
• A Man With a Mission
• The Bells of Yule
• A Martyr's Christmas
• Christmas Musings
• A Christmas Home-Coming
• The End of the Season
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• A Review of the Football Season of '99
• Includes photographs of dormitory rooms.

Volume information for this issue appears on p. 237,

The Purple, November 1899

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:

• Edward A. Scott
• The Corner Brick
• Letters to Living Writers
• The Passing of Summer
• The Leader of His Class
• Beware!
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Includes photograph of College Refectory

Volume information for this issue appears on p. 161.

The Purple, October 1899

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:

• Letters to Living Writers
• Other Days
• A Symposium on Poetry
• A Curious Manuscript
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics

Volume information for this issue appears on p. 92.

The Purple, July 1899

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:

• Fiftieth Graduation Day at Holy Cross College
• From South Worcester to Cuba and Back
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Includes photographs of Class of '99, ;99 football team, commencement

Volume information for this issue appears on p. 33.

The Purple, June 1899

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:

• Advertisements
• The First Graduation Day at Holy Cross, Fifty Years Ago
• The Growth and Development of Athletics at Holy Cross
• "Don't"
• A Young Man's Search for Health
• To the Law's Recruits
• An Untold Incident of the Late War
• For the Ordination of P.M.C., S.J.
• Purple Prizes
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Includes photographs of students, dignitaries, Purple prize winners, athletic teams

The Purple, May 1899

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:

• Rudyard Kipling
• A Long Farewell
• One Man's Career
• Seeking the Muse
• Rest
• A Name in Arcady
• A Fantasie
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Editor's Table
• Advertisements

The Purple, March 1899

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 Masterpiece
• The Wind of March
• In The Gloaming
• The Legend of the Red Rose
• Nemesis
• To a Locket: Taken from the Ruins of Pompeii
• Conversation
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Editor's Table
• Advertisements

The Purple, April 1899

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:

• James Lane Allen
• A Vision of Hope
• In Death Reunited
• Study-Hall Ballad
• Tennyson's Love For The Sea
• Life's a Deceiver
• Who Was Jim?
• Nihil Est Ex Omni Parte Beatum
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Editor's Table
• Advertisements

The Purple, February 1899

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,--An Original Genius
• My Guiding Star
• The Humor of the Law
• A Sad Remembrance
• Student Celebration on the Occasion of Final Vows
• The Vigil of St. Ignatius
• Greetings of Former Students
• The Vows at Montmarte
• The Vows of To-Day
• Xavier
• Victories of the Future
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Editor's Table
• program for Final Vows celebration

The Purple, January 1899

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 Catholic Colleges
• Blessed are They That Mourn
• A Letter and a Promise From '74
• My Last Adventure. A Narrative Found in an Old Chest
• Memories
• The Story of the Class Journal
• A Disappointing Letter From One of Our Soldier Boys
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• College World
• Athletics
• Editor's Table
• Advertisements

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 [email protected] 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.