W. K. Edwards, first Secretary of the Board of Managers of Rose Polytechnic Institute, Mr. Nippert, Mr. Collett, Mr. Peddle and other friends of Mr. Rose and his institutions were frequent visitors. Not only the traditions but the atmosphere of the place has been kept the same. The same kind of people have been wel- comed here as before, and while the old house has never been made the scene of festivities, it is safe to say no other room in Terre Haute is the center of so extended a social life in a quiet way, as the old Rose library. It is true the walls and the window at which Mr. Rose used to sit are about all that remain as they used to be, but it is easy for the imagination to call up again the great events of the old times. It is safe to say that hundreds of wills have been made in this room. Mr. Rose had no superstition about making wills, and used to make and unmake them often. It was here that Mr. Rose refused to sell the T. H. L. railroad, though he wanted to sell and was offered his price. He refused because the purchasers would not treat all the other stockholders as they did him. He insisted they should give the same price to all stockholders who wanted to sell. The would-be purchasers threatened to “bring the old man to his milk” by paralleling the road. Mr. Rose said then he would extend the line to St. Louis, but this he was prevented from doing by his advancing age. No event in the man’s life, not even the adjustment of his brother’s estate, shows his downright honesty in opposition to his own interests so well as this. Mr. Rose’s life will well repay study, especially by our Polytechnic students. It is full of good traits worthy of imitation, and not at all too perfect to be human.
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