Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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what gives promise of being the finest athletic grounds in Indiana. The grounds measure 700 x 450 feet, and are large enough to enclose the foot ball oval, base ball diamond, pit and third-mile track. Two large amphitheatres and bleachers will be erected in the near future. The base ball team is now in active work, and we expect much from it. The new system of management has brought about a healthy rivalry among tbe stu- dents in procuring positions on the nine, and we may feel satisfied that we are being represented by the best talent in the University. In the matter of college politics we have held our own, as all of the other State institutions will readily acknowledge. Socially, the year has not been especially active, but at times the atmos- phere has beeu fairly teemiug with hospitality. Annual week was especially en- joyable on account of the social features of the receptions. There have been a few changes in the faculty. Prof. J. J. Flather has suc- ceeded Lieut. Creighton as Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Lieut. D. D. Johnson, First Lieutenant Fifth Artillery, U. S. A., now dispenses military tactics to the students, Lieut. Pickering having gone West to fight Indians. Miss Caro- lyn Gerrish has succeeded Miss Anna Crockette as instructor in Elocution. Mr. Frank A. Waterman is assistant to Prof. Carmen. The total enrolment up to April 20 was 63S.

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Purdue ' s Past Year. HE vear 1891-92 will long be remembered as one of great triumphs and achievements, as well as one of great growth in the University. In the line of equipment there have been added the Otto gas engine, Westing- house engine, and not least of them all, Old Schenectady. Our loco- motive stands all alone in the annals of railroad lore. There are none like unto Old Schenectady. The other departments, as well as the engineering, have had a few additions of apparatus. As soon as there are no more engines to buy, the courses in science and in art will be strengthened. Athletics have been on a veritable boom. On Thanksgiving Day the last straw was knocked out from under the support of the old Indiana champions ' football pennant, and that same rag now proudly waves in the breeze of a Purdue atmosphere. The unparalleled success of the eleven gave a new impetus to sports in general. The Board of Trustees liberalU - donated a handsome sum of cash and seven acres of land for the new Athletic Park, and through the tireless efforts of the Athletic Association officers we are now beholding the beginning of

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Board of Trustees. President. ' UXOi U S-£JL4 W , Secretarj ' . (fan c ' - )i esv. Treasurer.