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The Purple, December 1915

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
• Advertisements
• Home for the Holidays
• Pablo's Christmas Gift
• Senior Class Song
• Pickin's of a Pixie
• The Midnight Mass
• A Forest Tragedy
• A Graduate's Confession
• The Hand Beautiful
• "Peace on Earth"
• Our Purple Banner
• Sparks from a Whetstone
• Books and the Undergraduate
• A Christmas Gift
• Christmastide
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Chronicle
• Gov. Walsh and Guest Saluting Guardsmen. Illustration
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, November 1915

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
• Advertisements
• The Lure of Cinders
• Pickin's of a Pixie
• Nugae et Alia
• A Halloween Party
• Jean Henri Fabre
• The Wreck
• At the Soda Fountain
• Autumn
• Chapelle de Marie
• The Dawning
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Interclass Track Meet - Illustration
• Chronicle
• Alumni
• 1915 Baseball Team - Illustration
• Athletics

The Purple, October 1915

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 Green Brigade
• Thorubosopolis
• My Lady's
• Estelle: A Seashore Idyl
• By Ingold's Cut
• His Last Public Utterance
• The Hunter's Song
• Americanization
• Rain
• Sporting Blood
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Thanksgiving
• Athletics

The Purple, June 1915

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 Dawn
• The Facts About Cock Robin
• Song of the Train
• A Memorable Wooing
• Rose of Joy
• His Posthumous Heroism
• The Fool
• Athorubosopolis
• His Mother's Boy
• The Legend of Mount St. James
• Communications
• Editorial
• Wheat and Tares
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Arroama
• Athletics

The Purple, May 1915

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 Baculomaniac
• Spring
• Me Little Irish Mother
• After Office Hours
• The Poet's Prayer
• To a Violet
• "Our Poet Priest'
• Glenamaddy
• Sweet Robin
• Case and Triple G
• O Seeing a Butterfly
• Song of the East Wind
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Wheat and Tares
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Arroama
• Athletics

The Purple, April 1915

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 Wake at Carbon Camp
• Discontent
• Greek, Greaves and Grievances
• To My Violin
• The Art of Profitable Reading
• The Forsaken Wood
• The Incorrigible Corrigons
• Wanderlust
• Shakespeare and Irish Music
• Mother's Lament
• Communications
• Editorial
• Wheat and Tares
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Arroama
• Athletics
• Awakening

The Purple, March 1915

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:

• Death, the Lover
• Erin's Apostle
• The Call of Traumerei
• Blow, Balmy Winds
• When Men Go Mad
• To Sleep
• His Latest Victim
• Precursor
• Thanatos
• Our Common Enemy
• Night
• Memories of Erin
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Wheat and Tares
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Arroama
• Athletics

The Purple, February 1915

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 Purple Rialto
• Made in the U.S.A.
• The Wandering Minstrel
• The Man in the Box
• Tady the Gom
• Nobody
• Winter
• His Little Joke
• "Each Pearl a Prayer"
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Wheat and Tears
• College Chronicle
• Off to the War
• Alumni Arroama
• Athletics

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1915 --, 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, January 1915

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 Ethics of War
• The Old Year is Dead
• Erin's Call
• "A New England Renaissance"
• The Coward
• The Age of Service
• Land o' My Dreams
• The Destroyer
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Wheat and Tares
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Arroama
• Athletics

The Purple, December 1914

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:

• Old Thunder
• The Watchers
• A Saint by Proxy
• 'Tis Christmas
• Not Intended for Publications
• Eventide
• No. 787
• Lonely at Killaroe
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Wheat and Tares
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Arroama
• Athletics
• Snow

The Purple, November 1914

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 Melancholy Days
• McIvers and the Muse
• The Parting
• The Gentle Art
• Dawn-Dream
• Via Western Union
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Arroama
• Athletics

The Purple, October 1914

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:

• Summer's Aftermath
• A la Carte
• Sympathy and the Brute
• Musings of Seumas
• The First Poet of Holy Cross
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Arroama
• Always Maytime
• Athletics

The Purple, June 1914

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 Umbrella Ramble
• The Sower
• His Friend and Roommate
• The Gate of Gold
• What's in a Name?
• Valedictory
• Today Two Thousand Years Ago
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, May 1914

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 Messenger of May
• On the Border
• A Childhood Fantasy
• Murder Will Out
• 'Tis the Law
• The Difficulty of the Critic
• The Prairie Fire
• Pietro Was Successful
• Around a Class
• A King Conquered
• Light Melody or True Harmony?
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Wheat and Tares
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, April 1914

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 Turning Point
• Evening Thoughts
• A Bitter Memory
• A Study in Persian
• Musings of Seumas
• This Ulysses and That
• The Angelus
• The Siren
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Wheat and Tares
• Absent
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Advertisements

The Purple, March 1914

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 Left Cuff
• A Friend
• The Phantom Ship
• A Name in Modern Letters
• Soaking Them
• Musings of Seumas
• A Wedge to Adore
• The Storm's Aftermath
• In the Morn's Ee
• Thompson's Intimations of Immortality
• The Wake of Folly
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Prelude for Easter

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1914 --, 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 1913

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 Old Theme Ever New
• Musings of Seumas
• The Lost Lapis Lazuli
• Solitude
• The Hush of the Muting
• Philanthropie a la Mode
• Les Cloches de Noel
• The New Manor
• On Christmas Eve
• The Song of Ligurd
• Columba of Song
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, November 1913

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 Wag-Nuk
• Hallowe'en
• I Wonder
• The Red Hat
• Padding Through the Leaves
• When Greek Met Greek
• Modern Song
• The Glesca Fair
• Pakachoag
• Song of the Brook
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, October 1913

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:

• Canon Sheehan and Literary Limitations
• After the Hunting
• "Paul Peppergrass" and "Shandy McGuire"
• In Freedom's Lan
• Mother
• "Doing it Right"
• Castles in Spain
• To a Friend
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, June 1913

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 Eve
• "They Also Serve..."
• The People of "The Pines"
• Patriots and Others
• Lay of the A. B., Cum.....
• Breath of June
• The Account of Robert Elser
• Musings of Seumas
• In a Long-dead Mother
• 1843-1913
• The Promise of Morning
• Sphinxes Bleared
• For All That Was Yesterday
• The Duel
• The Voice Insistent
• The Hunter
• The Dweller Afar
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Entre Nous
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Notes
• Athletics

Alan Seeger Letter From Paris, 1913, Alan Seeger

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Alan Seeger, 1888–1916, American poet, b. New York City, grad. Harvard, 1910. During World War I he served in the French Foreign Legion and was killed in battle in 1916. He is famous for his war poem, “I Have a Rendezvous with Death.” Classmate of T.S. Eliot. In this letter, Seeger talks about his arrival (in September, 1912) and accommodations in Paris, and comments upon the current political and spiritual culture of France.

The Purple, May 1913

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 Dreamer
• The Wilde-Wood Bard
• A Song of May
• Achilles' Heel
• Warrior Woe
• A Reverie Monotone
• Fitton Fiel' Music
• Wenaska
• Musings of Seumas
• The Trouble With the Didactic in Art
• Prospect
• The Alchemist
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• Entre Nous
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Notes
• Athletics

The Purple, April 1913

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:

• Pelorus Jack
• High Harmony
• The Poetry of George Meredith
• Hame Tae Paisley
• That Worm
• Musings of Seumas
• Alvah Smithson
• Hoosier Prophecy
• "Over the Waters"
• Under the Rose
• Entre Nous
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Notes
• Athletics

The Purple, March 1913

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 Inner Freedom
• Weep Not
• Whist! Gang Tae Sleep
• Eyes and Seeing Not
• The Bee
• Aladdin
• "The Quintessence of Ibsenism"
• On Bomoseen
• Reviews Reviewed
• The Miner
• Musings of Seumas
• Thomas Augustine Daly
• Be Brave!
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Notes
• Athletics

The Purple, February 1913

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:

• St. Valentine
• Choosing, Chosen
• Geordie's Mountain Song
• The Home-Call
• Gibing Ourselves the Glad Hand
• The Berkshires
• Dust o' the Mind
• A Diary-flection
• Musings of Seumas
• Deodata
• Midwinter Night's Dream
• A Nightmare
• Entre Nous
• Under the Rose
• Sunbeams
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Notes
• Athletics

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1913 --, 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, January 1913

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:

• Orators!
• Since Time Began, Both Time and Man...
• Methodic Madness
• Sunset on the Desert
• The Wand of Midas
• Musings of Seumas
• The Sodality Reception
• A Fragment
• A Side Glimpse
• Drumchapel Raw
• Five Minutes
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Notes
• Athletics

The Purple, December 1912

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 Matchless Reliquary
• The Glad Night
• In the Wake
• To --
• Rudyard Kipling: A Study in Temperament
• Musings of Seumas
• The Return
• Ne'e'rdee
• The Psychology of Chairs
• The Holy of Holies
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• Alumni Notes
• Athletics