. ... Debris . LOOKING BACKWARD. RACIOUS 99 readers, withhold your criticisms of this article, as it is written, not for the present,but for the future. It has been our purpose to write something that will be of interest in the yearsto come, when you take down the old 99 Debris, and live your years at Purdue over, as you slowlyturn its pages. We were seated in the smoking-room of our club in Chicago. Therewere five of us, all college men, and while we were enjoying our Havanas,the conversation turned upon the happy college days which were now twenty-five years or more behind. Finally, some one
. ... Debris . LOOKING BACKWARD. RACIOUS 99 readers, withhold your criticisms of this article, as it is written, not for the present,but for the future. It has been our purpose to write something that will be of interest in the yearsto come, when you take down the old 99 Debris, and live your years at Purdue over, as you slowlyturn its pages. We were seated in the smoking-room of our club in Chicago. Therewere five of us, all college men, and while we were enjoying our Havanas,the conversation turned upon the happy college days which were now twenty-five years or more behind. Finally, some one proposed that Billy Stedman,who was always so proud to say that he had graduated from Purdue with the class of 99,should tell the story of that famous class. He consented, and we leaned back in ourchairs and listened, old memories of our own college years being recalled by his words aswe watched the blue smoke curl upward. It was in the fall of 95 that I left home toenter Purdue, he began. A great wave of desire for intellectua
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