ue Clr)i ?epsil • FI RST commencement of Purdue I nivcrsily was hold hut fifteen short years ago. At that time Purdue was an insignificant institution scarcely deserving to be called a college. Two small buildings were all that had been erected, students were few, and professors were discouraged. The long-prevailing idea that a classical education was the education, and all others useless—that artisans and mechanics need know little else than that which practice taught them was difficult to overthrow. Industrial schools were an experiment which the great majority of educators said must fail. Time has proven these to be erroneous, and though but few years have intervened since Purdue had its existence, they have been sufficient to see it develop into one of the leading colleges in the West. The National Congress passed an act in 1862 donating certain public lands to such States as would establish colleges for the development of agriculture, science, and art. At this time the Rebellion was the all-absorbing theme, and legislators and educators had little time to devote to anything save the safety of the Nation. Thus, nothing was done by her State regarding the donation until 1865, when the Indiana Legislature accepted I he national grant and appointed a board of trustees, to take charge of the lands, amounting to 390000 acres.
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