One of the survivors of the Titanic disaster the night of April 14, 1912 was Col. Archibald Gracie, Form of 1875, who helped many women and children into the lifeboats that fateful night. Col. Gracie, who jumped from the bow of the Titanic as she took her fatal plunge, survived with about thirty other men upon an upturned lifeboat, until they were picked up the following morning by the Carpathia. He wrote an article about the last hours of the Titanic which was reprinted in the Horae Scholasticae on May 15, 1912, and subsequently he wrote a book called The Truth About the Titanic. Col. Gracie never fully recovered from the trauma and died in New York on December 4, 1912, less than eight months after surviving the disaster.