Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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its faculty are authorities of national reputation in their respective departments. They are active members of the national technical societies and their papers are eagerly sought after by these societies and periodicals. A large number of these articles have been translated and reprinted in foreign magazines. Purdue was the first institution in the countrv to devote especial attention to railway mechanical engineering, and until last year was the only one that owned a locomotive and a locomotive testing plant. There are in fact but two other similar plants in the world. In this department many problems of railwav motive power and equipment have been solved. The importance of the results has arrested the attention of the prominent railwaymen so that the outcome of new experiments is always awaited with great interest. The high standing of the university enables its graduates to sec ure excellent positions immediatelv upon graduation and the office is in receipt ot many applications for men which it is unable to fill. All of these things are bringing to Purdue a constantly increasing number of voung men of bright intellect and keen business ability, men who go out into the activities of life and make influential and useful citizens. Purdue is alive in every sense. It is a modern institution founded on modern ideas, in charge of a faculty of young men who are presenting modern thought by modern methods. There is no doubt that upon this basis Purdue University will continue to grow and will retain the position it now occupies as one of the leading technical and scientific institutions of the country. 15