The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
THE PURDUE TRIUMPH.

New York Sun.

New York Sun.
Our invaluable old friend. the Gazetteer,
tells us that the city of Lafayette, Ind,
is situated on the banks of the Wabash
river and the Wabash and Erie canal.
Classic water and classic ground. To us
who devote our lives to the reverent study
of the masterpieces and prentice pieces
of Hoosier literature, the phrase, THE
banks Of the Wabash" is a poem. In Lafay-
cite, and somewhere near those hallowed
shores, is Purdue University. In the beau
tiful words of the Gazetteer, here is an in
stitution entitled Purdue University, which
is an agricultural college supported by the
State" Naturally football has a high place
in the agricultural curriculum; and speed
the BALI is motto even more priced than
speed the plow." We learn from a
Lafayette dispatch in the Indianapolis
Journal that '-for four long years Purdue
men have bowed in humiliation to the Uni
versity of Indiana's Drawn, but Saturday
the stain was wiped out in memorable
fashion" The lean years are over at last.
Purdue has defeated Indiana by a score OF
SO to o. Can anybody wonder that nothing
has caused more joy at Purdue and in
Lafayette for a generations" Sweet Is
pleasure. after pain.
So Saturday night was a night of tri-
umph in the Capua of the Wabash. The
happiness of the undergraduates found a
strange but evidently adequate means Of
expression. AT the close of the football
game yell leaders spread from mega
phones the news that there would be
''somethin' donin' /" at night and bad all
good Purduites make themselves ready for
A. rz-&ol l4n- ~ The ~rnAnoCfnn
started. 1t took the form of a "nightshirt
parade" For the benefit of students of
savage custom and rite we take from our
indianapolis contemporary a comparatively
full description of the mysterious pageant
and march:
"At z o'clock from every quarter CT the
city young men of Stalwart build appeared,
attired in nightshirts of every. conceivable
style. There were long. feminine-looking
garments, with lace .do-funnies' around
the collar and cuffs; there were short night
shirts Of Spartan simplicity; there were
nightshirts of vast size. and shirts narrow
and small; there were nightshirts with the
owners initials carefully worked by fond
mothers in silks of brilliant hue; there were
SHIRTS that We're imnaculate in starch:
there were white shirts by the hundred,
and striped shirts. a blue shirt or two.
shirts of v~ariegated colors. and one young
Ajax tripped along in pajamas. There
were clean shirts and dirty shirts. pretty
shirts and ugly shirts. and every one plain
ly, frankly and without apology a simple
nightshirt."
The leader was a youth whose appear
ance stirred the reporters imagination TO
write of a young man whose flowing gar
ments stirred the imagination to a picture
of Moses leading the chosen people" Sur
rounded by rejoicing thousands the wild
marchers. affectionately known in Hoosier-
land as boiler makers" went proudly on
their way, believing from full hearts and
lungs this terrific magical chant:
Purdue. Purdue.
Rah. Rah! Rah! Rail-
Purduei Purdue!
Rahi Rah. Rahi Rahi
Hoo Rah, Hurrah!
Bully for old Purdue!'
They went TO the hotels. They went TO
the theater, but attempted no serious out
break" and contented themselves with
making the 'house shake with whoops and
yells." 1t was a grand night for education.
Purdue and Lafayette; and no sneaking
moralist is called upon TO grumble because
after the show was over and the parade
dismissed. 'the celebration was kept up by
bibulous persons for several hours longer"
The rapid and frequent delivery of the
yell causes a friction and heat In the