1903-04 Volume 28 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

S04 THE SCROLL.that brought them into execution. Every street urchin inIjafayette, every business man, every member of the facultyand every student knew "Captain Robbie" or wanted to knowhim, and they all mourned for him when the end came.To those who knew him, it seems incongruous to think ofhim as dead and beyond all help. They came almost tothink that no power could combat him successfully, so irresistibleappeared his giant strength, his indomitable perseverance.And yet there came in the crashing steel the wingeddeath and even "Captain Robbie's" life went out. But deathwas merciful to a worthy foe, there being scarcely a visiblemark on his body and he died almost instantly.His death is the more pathetic because his real life workwas just about to begin. After his technical course at theuniversity and two years of practical preparation, he had engagedto begin work for a large engineering firm in Chicago,December i, as a mechanical engineer. At a sacrifice hearranged to spend the intervening time at Purdue in assistingthe football team to prepare for its final important games.With the energy which characterized his athletic endeavors,he entered into fraternity life. He was intimately identifiedwith every phase of his chapter's development, and as amember of the Indianapolis alumni club he continued towork for the fraternity with the zeal of the most ardent undergraduate.Funeral services were conducted at Indianapolis by themembers of the fraternity, after which his body was taken tohis aged parents in far away Montana by E. R. Johnson,Purdue, '04.It had been "Captain Robbie's" intentions to visit hisparents next spring- as he had not seen them for six years.One of his brothers died last spring, another is in Montanaand an older brother is in China, a missionary, unaware fora long time of his brother's awful death. Back in Indiana heleft numberless friends who feel their loss the keener becauseof their utter unpreparedness for it when it came.J. F. G. MILLER.•HENRY MERICLE GALPIN, SYRACUSE, '05.On Sept. 15, 1903, at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, BrotherGalpin died of appendicitis and typhoid fever. He was theson of Rev. Stephen D. Galpin, of Darby, N. Y., and wasborn June 22, 1882. He entered Syracuse University in theLatin-scientific course. In 1902 he was a member of the '05