The green and purple girls are the freshman chorus.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
She had those purple shadows under her eyes which betray us after long, sleepless hours when we live with our troubles and the world dreams around us; she had no color at all in her cheeks, and she had that aloofness of manner which Manley, in his outburst, had described as being shut up inside herself.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Soon after four the light failed, the land colored to purple and gold toward the rim of the horizon, and we were left to guess the direction of our course.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook