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The Purple, April 1911

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 April Cloud
• The Shocks of Truth
• Sparks From a Whetstone
• The Educational Value of the Classics
• Sunset Reverie
• The Dreamer's Quest
• The Alchemist
• The Scourge of Spring
• The Decadence of American Wit and Humor
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, March 1911

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:

• Bereavement
• Thomas Chatterton
• The Meaning of Education
• Spring
• Why Doth it Profit?
• Sparks From a Whetstone
• The Civilizing Influence of Christianity on the Roman Empire and the Northern Races
• Twilight Reveries
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, February 1911

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:

• Bubble-Blowing
• Puns and Punning
• Sparks From a Whetstone
• Side-Lights on the Early History of the College of the Holy Cross
• Faith and Lobe
• A Man of Parts
• The Abiator
• Manco
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

1911 Ruby Yearbook, Ursinus College Junior Class, Morvin Wanner Godshall, Wesley Reiff Gerges

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 1911 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

The Purple, January 1911

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 Wanton
• A Question of a Lever
• Winter Leaves
• Milton and His Lycidas
• Sparks From a Whetstone
• The Cryptogram
• The Purple Lament
• An Education on Foot
• Regret
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, December 1910

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
• The Old Attorney
• Life's Story
• Wit and Wits
• Sparks From a Whetstone
• The Two Soldiers
• Memorie's Wildwood
• Invincible
• Winter Tokens
• December's Geraldry
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, November 1910

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:

• Thanksgiving Morn
• Intellectual Snobbery
• The Buccaneers
• A Stevensonian Study in Contrasts
• Two Pictures
• Sparks From a Whetstone
• The Spirit of the Age
• The Wander-Robin
• The New Gravitation Law
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, October 1910

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 Dying Friends
• State Paternalism
• Sparks From a Whetstone
• Broken Idols
• A Mother's Lullaby
• Back to His Own
• Columbus
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, June 1910

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 Toast
• The Land of Purple Patches
• Hannibal
• A Song for Summer
• Reminiscences
• Pipes o' Pompey
• Pompey's Swan Song
• The Weaber
• A Letter to Horace
• The Failure; or, Confessions of a Connoisseur
• Grief's Philosophy
• The House of Life
• Forecasts
• Sparks From a Whetstone
• So Wags the World
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, May 1910

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 a Fly-Leaf of Father Tabb's Lyrics'
• Concerning Industry
• Ballad of the Log-Driver
• The Character of Robert Louis Stevenson, from His Letters
• Sparks From a Whetstone
• Ballade of the Sea-Waves
• Song of May
• The Light!
• The Robin's Answer
• Ebening
• Pardonable Crotchets
• Pipes o' Pompey
• 'Splain Yo' Se'f
• A Seaside Reverie
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, April 1910

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:

• Time
• My First Edition
• A River Idyl
• A Servant's Devotion
• In Memoriam
• The Awakening of the Flowers
• A Spring Ramble
• A Society Dog-Ma
• "Why?"
• The Call of the Fields
• Undesirable Citizens
• A Match
• Sparks from a Whetstone
• Love and a Star
• To a Seminarian
• Circumstance
• Nature, Robin, You and I
• Pipes o' Pompey
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, March 1910

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:

• Psyche
• Pseudo-Morbilli
• On the Connecticut
• Young Friends and Old
• The Dreamer
• Desolation
• Pipes o' Pompey
• Signs o' Spring
• Patience Winters
• Till Lobe Returns
• Twilight on the Campus
• A March Reverie
• The Angels' Music
• A Moonbeam
• The College Magazine
• Song of Youth
• The Easter Lily
• On Being Conspicuous
• Sparks from a Whetstone
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, February 1910

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:

• In Memoriam
• On Being as One Apart from the Mob
• Sparks from a Whetstone
• Song of a Zephyr
• The Witch's Face
• Inspiration
• Pipes o' Pompey
• Funny Weatheh
• The Brown Soutane
• Hope
• Winter Wind
• Life
• Tabloid Culture
• "Jam Satis Terris Nibis"
• A Song for Valentine's Day
• History Repeats Itself
• Keep on Whistling
• "Deus, Laudamus Te!"
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics
• A Child's Song for Spring

1910 Ruby Yearbook, Ursinus College Junior Class, Ernest Carl Wagner, Frederick Leroy Moser

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 1910 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

The Purple, January 1910

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 Rescue
• Respectability
• Moments Paisibles
• Holy Cross
• A Monument to General Lee
• His Other Self
• Sparks From a Whetstone
• The Witch of the Other-Land
• Thoughts on Reading Newman
• Aunt Nell
• De Light
• Pipes o' Pompey
• De Paf ob Glory
• "From Shadows and Likenesses unto Truth"
• The J. A. 0'6
• A Fancy
• New Year's Resolutions
• Sua Cuique
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, November 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:

• The Story November Tells
• A Night in the Open
• That Indefinite Little They
• An Autumn Idyl
• The Gray Coat
• On Board The Sky-Flyer
• Pipes 'o Pompey
• Buckwheat Cakes 'nSausage
• Apple Butteh Bilin'
• The Reaper
• Dodwell Hall
• Tome Pedantry
• To a Child
• The Procrastinator
• The Bric-À-Brac of Life
• My Thanksgiving
• Four Bells
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics
• Winter Wizardry

The Purple, June 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:

• The Knights Who Ride To-day
• The Pity of It
• Charles Tennyson Turner
• Pipes o' Pompey
• Fo'f o' July
• Picknick Time
• Mammy's Li'l Rose
• Rings and the Man
• Going to Sleep
• "Omne Ignotum Pro Magnifico Est"
• To the Class of 1909, On Graduating
• Shapes in the Sunset
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, April 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:

• My Violin
• The Automobile-a Blow to Literature
• The Sunbeam
• The Laborer's Son
• Pipe's o' Pompey
• Pompey's Pociferation
• A Pagan Christian
• Oedipus
• Song for Returning Spring
• And Such Power Hath Pride
• The Witching Hour
• The Ethics of Newspaper Editing
• Our Graphophone
• Two Letters
• An Easter Lily
• A la Mode
• The Poet
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

The Purple, March 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:

• The Black Banshee
• The Morris Chair
• The Matchman
• Restcom Bailey
• Dirge and Carol
• Pipes o' Pompey
• D' Ol' Songs
• Edward Fitzgerald-The Poet
• The Pathway to the Light
• The Trout Brook
• What's in a Smile?
• From the Speech of Robert Emmet
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics
• Easter Carol

The Purple, February 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:

• The Death of Lincoln
• Romancing
• G'on Home, Groun'-hawg!
• Horace and the Subway
• "But the 'Old Grand' Knows"
• On Florida in the Water Gypsy
• Pompey's Valentine
• The Magician
• A Vicious Circle
• Friendship
• The Light That Leads
• The Needy Poor
• Iquisitiveness
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics

1909 Ruby Yearbook, Ursinus College Junior Class, Welcome Sherman Kerschner, William Samuel Long

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 1909 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

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 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