Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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mil! Ill THB i iz. e e:br i s ice mm no amount of yelling was able to turn to victory. The very next Saturday, however, justified our confidence in Big Bill Horr. when 600 rooters went to Chicago and returned feeling that Chicago ' s ll-to-3 victory was but another indication of Chicago luck, and not of our strength. After a lapse of two weeks, calculated to brush up our football science, we managed to nose out DePauw by the score of 5 to ; but again on November 4th Old Gold and Black showed her true quality wlien Illinois, considered for a while as prospective champions, could not do better than 12 to 3 and, in the last quarter, were played oflf their feet by one of the best exhibitions of whirlwind attacks put through by Purdue in many years of football history. November 11th was a big day and night. Iowa 11, Purdue — upon which we shall not dwell further, and the big levee storm, sur- passed only by the big wind of ancient history in Ireland. Build- ings were leveled and college studies made impossible by the destruc- tion of six blocks of electric light and telephone lines on the levee. A return to old-time form on November 18th tumbled Rose Poly ' s victory aspirations to the tune of 33 to 6. And then came the biggest day Purdue has had in athletics for many a moon. Two trainloads of Purdueites overran Bloomington and the team ran over Indiana 12 to 5, with several more touchdowns resting in the shad- ows of the goal posts. Only the sea of mud on the field kept Horr ' s wonderful repertoire of plays from running the score sky-high. It was a day for the Seniors to look back upon and congratulate them- selves upon being present at the killing. With the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays to break the monotony, we looked forward to the basketball season and. having four veterans to build a team upon, could see nothing but a string of victories ahead. They came with no defeats interspersed to spoil a 1000 per cent, season, the first in conference basketball since 1908. The stories of the games are all alike — possibly a little more or less opposition here and there, but in the final count the championship five took in strange teams and strange floors without ever being able to test its true strength. Outside of athletic events, interest was afforded by the Ex- ponent by the war on express and street car service. The effect in the first case is easily seen by the presence of three express offices on the West Side, but up to the present time, the street cars still re- tain their resemblance to Noah ' s Ark of old. The Student Council, also, got busy, and through their efforts and Exponent co-operation, a ban has been placed upon the whole- sale erection of class memorials about the campus, an excellent sub- stitute being offered by the establishment of a Purdue Union fund, which, it is assured, will grow to useful proportions in the near future. Burrage — We l □ IC Tuesday, but probably on ■Wednesday. ' 31

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SIC 31 THE 1 12. i: EBF I S IC aim History of Past Year eks in September, 1 ' ' 12. saw the influx Imnfh nf Seniors in anticipation of the 0 ' ITJ lonsj-desircd enrduroy years and what the harvest l yl ll ll Ve started in on the last lap on September II i lf ril2 t II I4t],. liut nut until we had helped swell the annual ])arade which marches up the stone steps to the Den, from which only a few of the lucky ones were immune for tlie remainder of the semester. Due to the small demand for campus tickets by the Freshmen, the proceeds of which help reim- burse the upper classman for his registration fee, our trips across the levee were not so frequent as they might otherwise have been, Ml we were content with Tank Scrap preparations. These were of little avail, however, as the Juniors ' proteges were victorious after 2i minutes of honest endeavor, turning a trick never before known in Tank history — that of defeating a bunch who had been victorious the previous year. Following this first great excitement, college work along educa- tional lines interfered with history making; but even here our path was not without monotony-breaking details. Due to a shake-up in the Civil department our advance along hydraulic lines was com- promised by rapid-fire changes of profs, until we received one who piloted most of us safely across the dams and eddy currents to the end of the semester. We were sorry to note the absence of two of our old friends. Prof. Hofifman and Prof, Ludy. Prof. Hofifman, we fear, is lost to us completely, having gone to Nebraska to accept the position as dean of the engineering schools ; but we await the return of Prof. Ludy from Wisconsin, where he is now located on leave of absence. The course in Chemical Engineering has received a boost, also, as it now can boast of its own instructional corps, which it lacked in the past. The new library approached a more concrete form, due to the letting of the building contract, which, in the fitness of things, went to a Purdue alumnus. After a few such minor details football season started in with a rush — downward. On October 7th the two upper classes marched on the fi eld in distinctive corduroys and hats, only to sit in agony and see Wabash pull the long end of a 3-to-O score, a defeat wliich G, D, Miner — Convocation has improved this year — so I have heard. 31

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mic 31 THB I IZ. E)EBFCI S IE Slim At the present writing we, as Seniors, may claim a most varie- gated year in which we are completing our college career. We have lived through the most successful foothall and basketball seasons, worst storms and longest winter that any Senior class has had the pleasure of experiencing for many years, and we look forward to the remainder of the year, anticipating winning baseball and track teams, inter-scholastic baseball and track tournaments, conference meet and Gala Week, which marks the parting of the ways. We leave in the hopes of returning at many reunions to watch the prog- ress in which we, at one time, took part. Schuler — The Tau Bates are good in spots, but there are few spots. 31