Twenty Years After By GEORGE ADE, ' g Hold on. Father Time — slow up a bit ! You may be the oldest living Alum- nus, as lean, decrepit and senile as you are shown in every allegorical picture, but, believe me, no youthful member of the track team the Here I am fatherly screi Debris of 1007. Let ' s see— five, ten, fifteen, twenty! Good old Prof. Stevens once told me that the department of my brain marked Mathematics was a resounding vacuum, and yet even I can check off the calendar marks and corroborate the horrifying fact that twenty years have slid stealthily by since we of the class of ' 87 were shooed out of the front door, laden with good advice. Presto, change ! Here it is 1907. To think that lien Taylor and Charley Stafford and I are now qualified to revisit the campus and do the Rip Van Winkle act — to indulge in rambling reminiscences of the good old days and try to convince the irreverent Freshman, who was unburn when we went out into the great world, that life was worth living even during that remote period. Whenever I am given the opportunity to address Purdue can reel off the laps with undergraduates, I find myself impelled to compare the early such amazing persistence eighties with the early naughtics and give the later arrival and such glorious speed. some graphic conception of the revolutionary changes and the tremendous development of the last quarter-century. The com- parative figures are so startling that one is tempted to exhibit them often. In 1887 we had a graduating class of eight. 1 am told that this year the university will graduate from all departments a total of about 425. Here we have the ratio: The Purdue Uni- versity of 1887 was to the Purdue University of 1007 as 8 is to 425. Truly, so far as the physical proportions of the various schools, classes and social organizations are concerned, the 25
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