Excerpt from The Purple Patcher, 1907: Being the Book of the Class of 1907, Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts

Of necessity a great portion of that which is inscribed within these covers will be appreciatedzbthe chi-55 1907 alone. But many a one who reads mayhap will find herein contained some little key to memories too long abandoned - to oblivion's care. And it is because we thought there were mines as deep of treasured lore and wells of happy hours as sweet to be found upon this hill of ours as are told of in an y other spot on earth, that we have ventured thus to picture in some little way the life and men at Holy Cross. For sixty years memories of Holy Cross have ¿ourished brightly, waned, th'en died ~away, - and the mausoleum oblivion raised has guarded well her dead. Then better far, we hope, has been our task to build a treasure house in which to store our own' than bid the same stern reaper of those sixty years entomb what we could e'er remember but would one time in vain endeavor to recall.

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