Purdue debris . AME a University without athletics andyou name one barren of half the featureswhich are potent factors in the creationof college spirit. Without athletics col-lege men, undergraduates would be, to amarked extent, without common inter-ests, without mutual joys and sorrows and would never bebound by such bonds of friendship as spring only from vic-tory or defeat of Varsity. Because this spirit is a desirable one in college atmos-phere athletic games are supported in all the leading uni-versities, in fact athletics play an impotant part in most ofour institutions of higher learnin
Purdue debris . AME a University without athletics andyou name one barren of half the featureswhich are potent factors in the creationof college spirit. Without athletics col-lege men, undergraduates would be, to amarked extent, without common inter-ests, without mutual joys and sorrows and would never bebound by such bonds of friendship as spring only from vic-tory or defeat of Varsity. Because this spirit is a desirable one in college atmos-phere athletic games are supported in all the leading uni-versities, in fact athletics play an impotant part in most ofour institutions of higher learning. At Purdue interest inclean, manly sport has always been of the enthusiastic typewhich in late years has waxed so intense that achievementsof her teams, considering the resources, have been of thephenomenal order. Purdue is now in her athletic renaissance having just thrown off a dragging financial debt remaining from her dark-age of athletics. To the present generation of underclass-men the struggle which Pur
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