Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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s an age of industrial progress. On every hand is heard the whirr of machinery and seen the products of skill and training. Those men who arc achieving the greatest success are not the captains of war but the captains of industry. It is a period of fierce competition where every energy is taxed to the utmost, where only the strongest and best equipped can obtain recognition and success. To fit men for this struggle, to give them the requisite training, Purdue University was established. The graduates of Purdue are found, not in the pulpit, not on the bench, but in the great centers of industry; wherever construction and production are in progress, there are found the men of Purdue lending their trained minds and skilled hands to the work in progress. To enable these men to withstand the competition which they must meet and win success in the struggle, the best possible in equipment and instruction has been provided. As a result of years of effort and progress i ' urdue, to-day, stands unexcelled by any of the technical schools of the land in equipment and means of training. Her laboratories and shops are 13

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gji BB ' 1111- justly celebrated tluoughout the t clini il ill in 1 lu r m tin t rs in in. n I I inie m 1 r n un in technical work. Over a dozen buildings, each adajded to the use for which it was designed, house the laboratories and equipment. These buildings are grouped about a thirty-acre campus, which is laid out according to the best art of the landscape gardener. Trees, shrubs, walks, fountains and buildings, all combine to form one of the most beautiful campuses in the West. Here men are equipped for work along six various lines of industry: Mechanical, Civil and Electrical Engineering, Applied Science, Agriculture and Pharmacy. In Mechanical Hall, the largest building on the campus, we find a varied assortment of valuable and interesting machinery and equipment. The beginners in engineering are here placed at work on the lathes, benches and in the foundry, where, by actual experience, they acquire the fundamental principles of the work they are taking up. When they have mastered these principles they are assigned to work of greater importance and intricacy, for all of which the most up-to-date equipment is provided. Here is found the great locomotive, Schnechtady No. 2, mounted in such a manner as to make possible tests of every description pertaining to locomotive engineering. In addition to this locomotive, there are in this laboratory a one hundred horse-power Harris-Corliss triple expansion engine, designed and constructed especially for the University; a thirty-five horse- power Buckeye straight line engine; a Baldwin compound locomotive and a ten horse-power