Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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of my vanished forefathers, have pity upon my shortcomings. If further doubts assail thee, and thy sviddenly- acquired infirmities will permit thee a closer view, gaze for but one shuddering moment upon the tomb of my ' 97 ancestor and thou wilt forgive me everything. Thou canst but realize my manifold disadvantages of genealogy, mine inherent lack of originality, and that ' 99 will soon persecute thee with her attentions; but harden not thy heart, and think only of thy mercies. Think of the great and mighty star that is so soon to disappear from thy college firmament, the star of ' 98; of the blessed privilege that thou enjoyest of constituting an infinitesimal fraction of the same constellation; and pondering well over these benefits ignore mine idiosyncrasies. I am thine to use as thou wilt, yea, as thine own, even unto all that I have of grinds and roasts. Be merciful unto me, oh Purdue, and forget all mine infirmities, that upon thy head may rest the choicest blessing of ' 9$ Debris

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4 : . y Officers of fbe faculty James[]Henry Smart, A.M., D.D. ..... President 191 Columbia St., Lafayette, Ind. A M., Dartmouth, 1870; LL.D., Indiana University, 1883; Sigma Chi; Associate Editor, New Hampshire Journal of Education, i860; Principal Toledo High Schools, i863- ' 65; Superintendant Fort Wayne Schools, i865- ' 75; State Superintendant Public Instruction, i876- ' 82; United States Commissioner to Paris Exposition, 1878; President National Educational Association, 188 1; President National College Association, 1S90. WiNTHROP Ellsworth Stone, A.M., Ph.D. . . . Vice-President North Grant Street, West Lafayette Stanley Coulter, A.M., Ph.D. ...... Secretary North Grant Street, West Lafayette