Purdue debris . Mother McRae. Among the most pleasant memories that cluster about our college day-- thedearest of these will be our relations with her whom we all call Mother. It i-indeed a privilege and a blessing for the girl who leaves her home for the first time,where she has been carefully nurtured and cared for, to come under the Influenceof one whose character is as broadly sympathetic and as beautiful as thai of EmmaMont McRae. Mrs. McRae came to Purdue in the year 18S7 and since then has been sponsorfor most Purdue girls. This has indeed been a task of responsibility as well asone req


Purdue debris . Mother McRae. Among the most pleasant memories that cluster about our college day-- thedearest of these will be our relations with her whom we all call Mother. It i-indeed a privilege and a blessing for the girl who leaves her home for the first time,where she has been carefully nurtured and cared for, to come under the Influenceof one whose character is as broadly sympathetic and as beautiful as thai of EmmaMont McRae. Mrs. McRae came to Purdue in the year 18S7 and since then has been sponsorfor most Purdue girls. This has indeed been a task of responsibility as well asone requiring tact and patience, but she fulfilled it nobly. She has never had timeto grow old and she believes with the poet that The best is yet to come. The only unpleasant feature she admits is the yearly return to Ladies Hallto find the family circle broken. However, if she could know the place --lie hasfilled in the lives of the girls who have been with her she would feel fully com-pensated. We, of the Ladies Hall, realize the


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