Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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A Word to The Wise This book is speciticallv for the students of Purdue University. If it inter- ests others, we shall be pleased; if it pleases the students, we shall be satisfied. However, Students, we have never dreamed, even, that you would approve of everything in the book. The Primal Pair were not content with Eden — how much less will fallible students find their expectations satiated in this volume of imper- fections. Franklv, we -would be rather disappointed ourselves if you were to give it unqualified approval. We are not absolutelv content with it and if you should be. we would doubt the soundness of your judgment. And then, you (and we ) are better critics than writers, better with the sword than with the pen. It is easier to wreck than it is to build. But, even if «e have builded a castle in Spain whose imperfections make it worthless, in a sense, so long as it contains the records of our past hopes, the unique chapter of our history which is never lived but once, do we not preserve it — for a keepsake if for nothing more ? ' alue it as that onlv. Do not judge our art by RaphaeTs, nor our literature bv Shakespeare ' s. We could not reproduce theirs if we cared to ; we are sure they could not duplicate ours. We are but college editors. Judge us as we have judged you : by Adam and Eve, by Ananias and Sapphira. Bv your leave, Students, we present our handiwork. The Editors. June I, 1903.