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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.

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.

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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The Purple, December 1897

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 Coming of Yule
• King Agbarus - A Christmas Narrative
• The Star
• Two Friends
• Bygone Days
• The Prince of Essayists - A Sketch
• Roast Turkey vs. Roast Pig
• The Midnight Minuet
• Some Noted Characters of Dickens
• The Song of the Engineer
• Dick Steele - A Story
• A Borrowed Saint
• The Mistletoe
• "Peace on Earth"
• A Good Custom
• Alumni
• Juniors' Night
• College Chronicle
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Book Reviews
• Calendar for December and January

Volume information on p. 346.

The Purple, November 1897

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:

• "Light of Other Days"
• The Clean of Heart
• A Venusian Twilight
• A Recent Jubilee in England
• A Classic of the Old School
• The Spirit of the Waves
• Etchings
• The Dawn of the Day
• Classic Tales in Modern Dress
• Sicut Lilium Inter Spinas
• Cash Prize of Twenty-Five Dollars
• The College and the University
• The Investiture of Monsignor Conaty '69
• The Alumni
• Purple Patches
• The College Chronicle
• Athletics
• From the Editor's Table

Masthead appears on p. 267.

The Purple, October 1897

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 Idealized Letter
• Voices of the Night
• Scenes and Songs of the Old Plantation Life
• A True Educational Reformer
• Autumn
• Forgiven-A Story
• The Guardian of the Night
• A Retrospect and a Prospect
• To the Old Boys of Holy Cross: - Greeting
• A Word on Athletics
• Our Advertisers
• The Class of '97
• In Memoriam
• The College Chronicle
• The Alumni
• Athletics
• From the Editors Table

Masthead appears on p. 199

The Purple, July 1897

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 Week
• Pity
• Visit of the Very Rev. Edward I. Purbrick, S.J.
• Ignatius the Soldier
• The Genius of the Middle Ages
• The Love of a Father
• The College Graduate the Future Statesman
• Religion the Corner-stone of Government
• Augustine at Milan
• A Liberal Education and Society
• Out of a Dream
• Edward the Confessor
• Dr. Conaty a Monsignor
• For the Best
• Brother Michael Hogan, S.J.
• A Word on Georgetown's Graduate School
• After the Storm-A Fantasy
• Editorials
• The Alumni
• The …

The Purple, June 1897

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:

• June Roses
• Recollections of Holy Cross at the Season of the End of the War between North and South
• Fair Land and Free
• Some Leaves from Irish History
• Activity
• Why?
• To Dante in Exile
• Journalism
• On a Falling Star
• A Plea for an Alumni Day
• Necessity of Parental Co-Operation for the Success of the Teacher
• Mozart's Dream
• A Few Reminiscences of Holy Cross a Generation Ago
• Two Consuls
• Debating Societies and Their Utility
• The Oriole
• Holy Cross …

The Purple, January 1897

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:

• Contents
• Catholics and Public Libraries
• The Well-Head of Christmas Song
• A Christmas Carol
• A Mediaeval Nativity Play
• The New Year
• Conventry Patmore
• Life
• On the Decadence of a Good Game
• The Priest
• A Christmas Dinner
• The Reception to Very Rev. Thomas J. Conaty, D. D., '69
• Editorials
• Alumni
• College Chronicle
• From the Editor's Table
• Calendar For Dec.-Jan

The Purple, [December 1896]

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 Holy Cross Alumnus Rector of the Catholic University
• The Art of Poetry--A Definition
• A Thought for the "Coming-Time"
• St. Francis Xavier and a Modern Scientist
• A Few Pastels
• The "Coming-Time in Song
• Cardinal Newman and Anglican Orders
• The Winter's Breath
• The Reverend Peter J. Blenkinsop, S.J.
• Rhetoricians' Night
• A Golden Jubilee
• The Alumni
• The College Chronicle
• Athletics

The Purple, November 1896

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:

• First Steps in the Study of the Classics
• William Morris
• William Morris (poem)
• Letters to Dead Authors
• The Ending of a Polish Youth
• On a Queer Prejudice
• A Priest's Mother
• His Wages
• A November Day
• Students and Reading
• The Glee Club and Orchestra
• Bishop Beaven
• "And in the Fourth Watch of the Night, He Came to Them Walking Upon the Sea"
• The Alumni
• The College Chronicle
• Athletics
• From the Editor's Table

The Purple, October 1896

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 Edward A. McGurk, S.J.
• Meditations of Menippus the Cynic
• Language, A Criterion of Knowledge
• To a Dead Butterfly
• The Centenary of Robert Burns
• The Watchers of Folly
• What Oxford Owes to Catholicity
• My Home
• Sam's Success
• The Fisherman
• On Being Perpetually Misunderstood
• Our Literary Confidences
• The Noble Work of Catholic Laymen
• The Anniversary of Bishop Fenwick's Death
• The Conventions of Catholic College Editors
• A Letter from Admiral Meade
• The Alumni
• The College Chronicle
• Athletics
• From …

The Purple, July 1896

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 Day
• Governor Wolcott's Address
• If I Could Know
• The Cardinal's Visit
• Prince of the Church
• The Prince of the Faith
• Nell
• The Highest Type of Good Citien
• Home and Mother
• Catholic Leper Missions
• A Reverie
• That Unseen Phase
• The Meeting of College Editors at the Summer School
• Athletics
• From the Editor's Table

The Purple, June 1896

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 First Catholic College in New England
• The Alumni Bishops of Holy Cross
• Alma's Soldier Sons
• Holy Cross Students in the Civil War
• Holy Cross Students on the Judiciary Bench
• Duty of the College and of College Men to the Summer School
• To the Sacred Heart
• A Word with the Young Man Who Is to Take Up the Study of Law
• Vesper
• Some Words of Counsel to Those About to Take Up the Study of Medicine
• Fancy …

The Purple, May 1896

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:

• Contents
• News of the Month
• The Night Cometh
• The Imitation of Christ, - A Classic of All Nations
• Echo
• The Satan of Paradise Lost
• The Character of Achilles
• The Lady of the Night
• Ancient and Modern Oratory Compared
• The B.J.F. Debate
• Editorials
• From the Editor's Table
• College Notes
• Alumni Notes
• Athletics
• Advertisements

The Purple, April 1896

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:

• Contents
• News of the Month
• Reverie
• Literary Study of the Bible
• Joseph At Nazareth
• An Educational Fad
• The Olympic Games
• Will and Joe
• Editorials
• From the Editor's Table
• Alumni Notes
• College Notes
• Athletics
• In Every Humor
• Advertisements
• Images; Instructor to Gymnastics, The Holy Cross Relay Team, Prominent Members of the Holy Cross A.A., Thomas E. Cavanaugh - The First Representative of Holy Cross at the I.C.A.A.A.A.

The Purple, March 1896

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:

• Contents
• News of the Month
• From Our First Student
• Horace and Some English Satirists
• Great Minds in the Same Channel
• Waiting For The Light
• The "Morte D'Arthur"
• Prayer
• An Unknown Treasure
• Sleep
• Another Alumnus Honored
• Michael Joseph Morrison, '99
• Editorials
• Book Notices
• Exchange Notes
• Alumni Notes
• College Notes
• Athletics
• In Every Humor
• The Course of Studies
• Advertisements

The Purple, February 1896

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:

• Contents
• News of the Month
• The Exile
• "Bread Cast Upon the Waters"
• The Colonel's Tale
• The Pen or the Hoe
• Senator Lodges's Speech on the Venezuelan Question
• Life's Ways Are One
• American Catholic Journalism
• Editorials
• Book Notices
• Alumni Notes
• College Notes
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Advertisements

The Purple, January 1896

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:

• Contents
• News of the Month
• Jim. A Homely Tale of Christmas-Time
• The Dying Year
• My Happy Christmas
• A Thought
• A Strange Visitor
• The Price of a Friend
• Vale Atque Salve
• Songs to the Christ-Child
• The Shepherds' Watch
• A Panel of Christmas Pastels
• The Aged Man and the Child
• Eugene Field and Father Prout
• Editorials
• Exchange Notes
• Book Notices
• Alumni Notes
• College Notes
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Advertisements

The Purple, December 1895

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:

• Contents
• News of the Month
• The Origin of "Rhetoricians' Night"
• Hecuba
• Reveries
• "Horace and Some English Satirists"
• Eugene Field
• The Glory of Athens
• Light in Darkness
• Life in Alaska
• The Book Mark
• "How Far Should We Countenance Roman Catholics"
• Editorials
• Exchange Notes
• Alumni Notes
• "Rhetoricians' Night"
• College Notes
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Advertisements

The Purple, November 1895

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:

• Contents
• News of the Month
• The Catholic Leaven in English Letters
• Death of Hector
• A College Library
• My Death
• The Ancient Mariner
• The Fall of the Leaves
• Two Scientists
• Hallowe'en
• The Liberty Bell's Trip
• John Keats
• Book Notices
• Editorials
• Exchanges
• Obituary
• Alumni Notes
• College Notes
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Advertisements

The Purple, October 1895

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:

• Table of Contents
• News of the Month
• The Assumption
• Wherefore Rejoice?
• The Story of Guadalupe
• The New Moon
• The Valkyries
• A New Student in the New Tower
• Dolorosa
• A Holy Cross Boy's Impression of the Atlanta Exposition
• Comments on the "Eutropius"
• Ellhnikon Dpama En Worcester "O Egtpopios"
• The Poems
• Editorials
• How the New York Sun Sees Us
• Obituary: Rev. Hugo D. Langlois, S.J., Rev. Robert Fulton, S.J.
• College Notes
• Alumni Notes
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Advertisements

The Purple, July 1895

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 Day
• Governor Greenhalge's Speech
• Inauguration in Education
• Character in Education
• Necessity of Political Integrity
• The Preservation of the Republic
• The Valedictory
• A Retrospect
• Facts That Are Suggestive
• The Siren's Song
• The Word Not to be Spoken
• New England Weather
• Soliloquy of Prometheus
• The Earthly Rose
• Dufour's French Books
• Essays
• Degrees Conferred
• Honors and Honor Men
• Advertisements
• Facsimile of program for Eutropius

The Purple, June 1895

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:

• News of the Month
• The Catholic Church the Mother of Our Liberties
• Fads and Fashions as They Affect Our Lives
• Reflections on Old Oxford
• A Page in the Geological History of Massachusetts
• Where Shall We Spend Our Summer?
• Where Shall We Make Our Professional Studies?
• Our Congratulations
• Butter-Cup and the Dew Drop
• Song to My Flute
• Faith, Hope and Charity
• Nostri Novem Optimi
• By the Sea
• The Notables of Ninety-Six
• The Philomathic Debate
• Athletics
• Alumni Notes
• Advertisements …

The Purple, May 1895

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:

• News of the Month
• Influence of Catholic Genius on English Literature
• Old Oxford
• The Catholic Church the Mother of our Liberties
• The Court of Byzantium
• The Inaugural Concert
• Jubilee of Archbishop Williams
• Centenary of Maynooth College
• O'Connell's Last Words
• Paschatis Dies
• Easter Day
• Our Glee
• The Bee and the Lily
• In Memoriam
• The Late Rev. Fr. Nopper, S.J.
• George J. Boden
• William M. Smith, S.J.
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Advertisements

The Purple, April 1895

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:

• News of the Month
• Gladstone's Horace
• My Favorit POet?
• Jamaica of Fact and Fiction
• Picture for Easter
• Holy Cross College
• Old Oxford
• A Bit of Romance (A Story)
• College Spirit
• Grata Vice Veris et Favoni
• We Shall Meet Again
• The Day of Days
• Spring Poets
• Latin Conversation
• The Purple Medal
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Alumni Notes
• Advertisements

The Purple, February 1895

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:

• News of the Month
• Footprints of the Calumniator
• "Peu de Chose"
• New England Then, and Now
• Saint Georges et le Dragon
• The Homeric Simile
• Julius Caesar in a New Light
• The Reunion of the Class of '85"
• The College Play
• President Eliot on Football
• Laws of Olympus Born
• Winter's Pleasures
• Our Own Colonos Blest
• A Mathematical Lecture
• King John
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Alumni Notes

The Purple, January 1895

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:

• News of the Month
• Yuletide in Story
• "The Burning Babe"
• The New Year in Song
• Fifty Years Ago
• Christmas Greetings
• The Boldness of Our Modern Life
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Purple's Christmas Wishes
• New Year's Musings
• To Alma Mater
• "Over the Garden Wall"
• Athletics
• Jottings
• Alumni Notes