Volume 12, Number 3 (1940) The Purple Pen
Front Matter
Nonfiction
Too Long the Road
William Carstens
In the Valley of the Tarn
Harold McConeghey
Present Day Juvenalism
Audrey Peet
The Red Badge of Courage
Dugan Laird
Fiction
They Plowed the Prairie Land
Mona Jane Van Duyn
I Picked Up Cobs
Genevieve Rivers
Coincidence
Llewelyn Long
Injun Weddin'
Eugene Bovee
Sink or Swim
Richard Corton
Aunt Georgia
Mary Van Skike
Life in the South
Althea Benson
Poetry
Almost Spring
Emma Morsing
Mermaid's Song
E. Winson Wallace
To the End of Time
Dorothy Jean Tostlebe
My Conscience
Melvene Draheim
To Two College Professors
Mary Eveleen Richards
Abdication
Dorothy B. Johnson
Lines to a Student's Mother
Helen Curtis
Art
Prose
And the Rains Came
Martin Hauan
Embarrassed
Barry Tucker
Chinch Bugs
Pauline Lyon
Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Lois Moessner
- Business Manager
- Audrey Peet
- Faculty Adviser
- Selina M. Terry
