THE NEW Y 236524 ANTOR, LENOX 1902 The Holy Cross Purple. THE HOLY CROSS PURPLE is a Literary Magazine, published at Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass. Its aim is to cultivate a high literary spirit among the students by exercising them in both critical and creative composition. It serves also as a bond between the Alumni and their Alma Mater chronicling their successes and telling briefly the important happenings of college life. Subscription: One dollar a year, payable in advance; single copies, 15 cents. THE HOLY CROSS PURPLE is issued every month, excepting August and September. Entered at the Post Office at Worcester, Mass., as second-class mail matter. BOARD OF EDITORS. Editor-in Chief: JOHN E. McTIGUE, '00. Commencement week this year was memorable in many ways. The base-ball excitement continued up to the Monday before graduation day; then, as general permission had been given to depart, many availed themselves of it, and thus for two days before the end the corridors. and grounds resembled "a banquet hall deserted." The friends and relatives of the Sen iors began to arrive in Worcester during the early part of the week, and they in a measure made up in number and quality for the missing students. Never before were there so many visitors at the college during commencement week. The first delegation of students to leave was the Maine squad, headed by W. C. T. Sullivan of Biddeford. They marched down the avenue with a weary look, as of men who have a long and dangerous journey before them. Students in the Junior classes who Prize Night. won renown in the study hall and classrooms since September received their rewards on the evening of June 20th, in Fenwick Hall, in the presence of many relatives and friends. The prize night exercises brought out many former students, who came from near and far to see how their successors are acquitting themselves, and a number of the families of the boys were represented in the audience by mothers and sisters, whose hearts throbbed with pride as the names of sons and brothers were called out and the young men and boys walked to the platform to have the crosses of honor pinned on their breasts or to receive the handsome premiums from the hands of Rev. John F. Lehy, S. J., president of the college. The distribution of the prizes was made in connection with an enjoyable programme of speeches and music by the students, opening with an overture, "Regina," by the college orchestra. Maurice P. Fitzgerald, 'oo, in his cap and gown, extended to the audience the greeting of the students, and after a selection by the college mandolin club, under the direction of Prof. Friedrich, John A. Sullivan, '02, gave a forecast of what is to become of the members of the graduating class. He had a dream, while resting under the lindens that surround the college, and in that dream he saw the Seniors as they will be 30 years from now. All the members of the class had attained distinction in one way or another, and Mr. Sullivan brought out their well-known characteristics in a facetious way that made a big hit. One of the best numbers on the programme was a violin solo by William J. Howard, Jr., who held the audience spell-bound during his playing. At the close of his selection a mighty wave of applause demanded an encore and Mr. Howard had to respond. Raymond Druhan, '03, told what the class of 1900 and the other students of the college have to be grateful for, and the prizes were then distributed to the members of the Senior classes by Fr. Lehy, Rev. C. C. Jones, S. J., and Mr. Donnelly, S. J. The orchestra played Loving Hearts," and P. J. Carney, '03, made a brief address, in which he recalled what the students have gone through since the college year opened in September. John J. Burke and Charles A. Greene gave a flute and 'cello duet, which was followed by an address of encouragement to the students by John F. McGrath, 02. John J. Burke, '03, sang "Rosie," in fine voice and pleased the audience so well that he had to respond to an encore, and this time he favored those present with Mullen's Waiting for Daddy." The farewell address of the students for the vacation was made by Harry S. Austin, 'or, and then the prizes were distributed to the students of the Junior classes, the exercises closing with a march, "Ragged William," by the orchestra. Commencement Day. The customary large and enthusiastic audience of Worcester people, augmented by the students' friends and relatives from out of town, flocked to Mount St. James' breeze-swept top, on Thursday morning, June 21st, to witness the fifty-seventh annual commencement exercises of the college. The day was a gala day of the all-surpassing type for Holy Cross-it was the close of the college's most successful year and witnessed the graduation of the most representative class which was ever matriculated at Holy Cross. The graduates of 1900 numbered 46, exceeding numerically as they did athletically and intellectually any and all of their 56 groups of predecessors. They bore their honors and the awards conferred upon them gracefully, and, grouped on the large western piazza of the college, arrayed in the conventional cap and gown, they presented a pleasing picture. A protecting canvas, stretching from the roof of the piazza to the row of lindens in the rear, sheltered the audience from the sun. The generous supply of benches and chairs which had been arranged for the comfort of the visitors proved insufficient to accommodate the countless well-wishers of 1900, the favorite class in the history of Holy Cross. |