Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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m Cordf-MM uf Muflackesf CNILS PRES ,ff- ' Y fLN? PEW 5A,t,75JfR?55EiE1ivtERf 213 'al - ,....4..,n4 stadium for all to admire, rain or shine-and this year it was rain! The Senior Parade was inaugurated by the class of 1905. Then, as now, the seniors wore cords and derbies. The practice of throwing the derbies into the air after Purdue's firstftouchdown was started at that time.

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,-,-i.. .' I I hifi: 4 - -Q, ' 'L-4,1 J, , 'll -- fy 'fav , ...i-. .11-L. The long and the short of it is that seniors, and seniors only, are allowed to wear yellow cords on the Purdue campus and senior men are the only eds permitted a mustache. Clean cords appear the first day of school, but it is a wise senior who knows where to hide them away from Green Potters on the prowl. A few days before WW: 1.-Q.: 0' ' -1 12. .1 . ,.4.,s. .J,,L. ,N , -nugiwx .' Q. ..-'ir' ' - Rielxff- ' mg. riff. vw? if-1 K ,.. - , lla, g r,:,', ,, - K 'vw -. 4' -N sd.. , .,. the first home football game, the occasion of the Senior Parade, senior men hide not only their cords but themselves as well, for freshmen bent on shaving mustaches are dangerous people. Though the outcome by the day of the game is usually few mustaches and brightly deco- rated cords, the seniors parade around the femblcv Parade

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Rmffmcg R Z.V6lL6lf5 Plaid shirts, blue jeans, Daisy Blues, Li'l .-Xbners, Blnndies, Smilin' Jacks, and a bicycle built for twin swarmed river the Union hallmfmi this fall in the usual frenzy til- the Riveters Rassle, spfmnsured by SDK, Sigma Delta Chi giciurnalistic liunorary, since abuut 1925. lt is Purdue's craziest dance, for one need not dance at all tn attendfif he'd rather shunt craps nr play bridge, he can sit dnwn on the Hilmar and do sn. Prizes are given for the must clever custume, the theme for I9-l5 being comic strip characters. The EQNPOIZFIII publishes a paper nunsensically dubbed The Bar Rfzg nr .N's.vp011w1f wr Yfffoia Dog. A queen is selected by campus vote. ln the PLISI the girl wnn whu could supply the must paper for vntes. This year the candidates campaigned for the lnfantile Paralysis Drive, une nite being allnwed fur every penny acquired.