Purdue debris . ers who have been res])onsible for the riotous better nor worse. They come from the same towns and cities methods sometimes exhibited at college games, but which jiro])- of the middle west, and they have had the same careful bringing crly belong on the 25-ccnt Ideachcrs at a professional ball up, and they are just about equally impetuous and coltish when game. they get away from restraint. It is not good sense or good I am happy to say that so far as my observation goes. manners to call them ugly names because they happen to be Purchie is not the cliicf otiender in the middle w
Purdue debris . ers who have been res])onsible for the riotous better nor worse. They come from the same towns and cities methods sometimes exhibited at college games, but which jiro])- of the middle west, and they have had the same careful bringing crly belong on the 25-ccnt Ideachcrs at a professional ball up, and they are just about equally impetuous and coltish when game. they get away from restraint. It is not good sense or good I am happy to say that so far as my observation goes. manners to call them ugly names because they happen to be Purchie is not the cliicf otiender in the middle west, but I will pitted against us in some important contest. sa\- furtlicnnorc tliat every college in the middle west seems to I have seen an excited crowd on a football field stand u]) have a minority element that should be ])ut into the backgn>un<l and shriek with joy when a good player of the opposing team and soothed down to good behavior,was being carried ofif, badly injured. This is one symptom of 27. ^11 IS (K])arlr,ient is the oldest of Purdues en-%>^lS^-^^^\ ,i;iueeriui^ schools. During the sixth year ofih* T~^ ^m the universitys existence, 1878-1879, all studies^, I ^6^1 wvw (li\i(K(l into three courses: Science, Agri-iyiv/.«~/.«,Aj/)?l eullure and Mechanics, the latter course being-ihe forerunner of our present de])artment of Mechanical Fjigineering. As may he said of all work of theinstitution, mechanical engineering received its first inii)etusduring liie presidency of Dr. Smart, and it was through his far-sightedness and the genius of oiu- justly famous dean, Cioss that brought into IxistiMUH this de])artments i)resent|)ride—the Incomntive irate ii\. It was this uni(|ue and novelpl:int that attracted the attentinn of the world to a growinguniversity, and tod;iy the n;ime Purdue is almost synonymouswitli locomotive performance. Mechanical engineering, however, has many other fieldsthan railroading, and the work of our school caters to
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