Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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l il l'Qllll, lily' if iff nl-sf?-El ? 5. galil fs gi is i ll R A sheaf of white paper, a bundle of sharpened pencils, a few ideas. and a great supply of enthusiasm-these constituted the Debris when the staff came back last fall. The paper has been used, the pencils are stubs. the ideas have died or been supplanted. or have been metamorphosed, but the enthusiasm remains. And, the I93l Debris is an actuality. The staff pre- sents it to the student body of Purdue University with a great deal of pride, for they believe that it is a worthy successor to those editions of the Debris that have gone before it. The object of a yearbook is to give an epitome and a lasting record of the events and personalities of a college. ln a way it performs some of the duties of a newspaper, or rather, a file of newspapers. Yet newspapers are like a breakfast dish, or an aperitif before dinner, taken from force of habit and quickly forgotten. The yearbook is like a bottle of rare wine, the older it becomes, the more value it has, until it becomes cherished beyond monetary valuation. To make the Debris something besides a mere recital of facts, the staff has had to put into it something above iournalism. lt is the same some- thing, perhaps it is art, that differentiates a painting from a photograph. This intangible something must run through the entire work as an almost tangible undercurrent. It achieves unity for the book. And we have selected as the unifying force that same unifying force which runs as an undercurrent through the whole University-Boilermaker Spirit. Intangible and elusive as Boilermaker Spirit is, incapable of definition and almost mythological, still, it is there. And we have made every attempt to catch it and to portray it in this yearbook. One of the most easily detected evidences of this spirit is to be found in that slight lift of