Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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Board of Cru$tee$ Cerms endiiid 3uly i, i$99 James M. Barrett Fort Wayne Job H. VanNatta Lafayette John Martin Brookville terms Ending July i, 1901 Benjamin Harrison ...... Indianapolis Charles B. Stuart Lafayette William A. Banks La Porte terms Ending !luiy 1, 1903 David E. Beem Spencer Sylvester Johnson Irvington William H. O ' Brien Lawrenceburg

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4 : . y Officers of fbe faculty James[]Henry Smart, A.M., D.D. ..... President 191 Columbia St., Lafayette, Ind. A M., Dartmouth, 1870; LL.D., Indiana University, 1883; Sigma Chi; Associate Editor, New Hampshire Journal of Education, i860; Principal Toledo High Schools, i863- ' 65; Superintendant Fort Wayne Schools, i865- ' 75; State Superintendant Public Instruction, i876- ' 82; United States Commissioner to Paris Exposition, 1878; President National Educational Association, 188 1; President National College Association, 1S90. WiNTHROP Ellsworth Stone, A.M., Ph.D. . . . Vice-President North Grant Street, West Lafayette Stanley Coulter, A.M., Ph.D. ...... Secretary North Grant Street, West Lafayette

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dtmh and mission of Purdue nyny TIME was when the maturity of a University was con- sidered to be a matter not of a few years but of a cen- tury. Both in Europe and America the element of time in the development of an institution of learning was un- duly exalted. There certainly is a classical flavor which time only can bring, but the educational history of the past quarter of a century has proved conclusively that most signal success may be achieved in the development of universities in a comparatively short time. Since the unprecedented success of the Johns Hopkins University in the East and of the state institutions in the West, it is no longer considered absolutely essential that a great institution of learn- ing should measure its existence by centuries or even by scores of years. Purdue University is now approaching the close of the first quarter-cen- tury of her existence, and during this comparatively brief time she has ac- complished more than was formerly thought possible of accomplishment in a century. The Universities and the press of Europe have naturally been conservative in recognizing the worth of American institutions of learning, but the reader of foreign scientific periodicals must be impressed with the rocognition given to Purdue and her work. Shortly before the founding of Purdue several technical schools, which have since acquired international distinction, were established in the East, but in the West, Purdue seemed to have a large field of her own and a pe-