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- Collection: Assumption College Newspaper - Purple and White
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ACS Football
One of the photographs is of an actual football game which took place in November of 1949. The second photograph is a group of Assumption College fans in the stands at football game in the month.
Tags: Extra Cirricular, Football, Game, Sports, St. Denis
Valedictory Address
A Valedictory address given by Assumption College's Valedictorian Harold O'Brien in 1944. His words give insight to what student life was like during the war. This group of graduates were the first at the college to spend their entire educational…
Tags: Graduation, Newspaper, Speech, Valedictorian, Wartime
Debate Club - Photo
A photo of the members of Assumption College's Debating and Oratorical Society in the year 1944.
Chemistry Club - Article
An article containing some of the activities and achievements of Assumption College's Chemistry Club during the 1945-1946 school year.
Tags: Article, Chemistry, Club, Newspaper Article
Chemistry Club Photo
A photograph of Assumption College's Chemistry club, posted in the Purple and White in 1944.
Tags: Chemistry, Club, Photograph
St. Basil Literary Society
This 1927 article excerpt reports on the first meeting that year of the St. Basil's Literary Society, devoted to the composition and giving of speeches. This society is a manifestation of both the college's Catholicity and its focus on liberal arts.…
Horseshoing
Many modern readers may be familiar with the game of horseshoes, yet this advertisement from 1926 is trying to sell the service of actually putting shoes on horses. One must keep in mind that the rural population in the 1920s was much greater than it…
Tags: horseshoes
Send a Telegram
In the twenty-first century telegrams seem to be an obsolete technology, but this was not so in the 1920s. This advertisement from 1926 invites readers to send their telegrams from Sandwich Pharmacy.
Tags: Advertisement, technology, telegram
Ambassador Bridge to be Built
In 1925 "Purple and White" published an article about the recently announced plan to build an international bridge connecting Windsor and Detroit, within a stone's throw of Assumption college. Though cautious of the negative effects such large…
Tags: Ambassador Bridge, Detroit, Detroit River, Windsor