Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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many collections of value and renown vvliich have been presented to the deparlnient by the collectors. The original research work done in this department has many times attracted favorable mention and considerable notice from those in no way connected with the University. Separated by a roadway from the main campus are the Experiment Station and Farm Build- ings. On the one hundred and si.-cty acres of land com[)osing the farm and in the model farm buildings are carried on experiments of vast importance to the agricultural and stock raising interests of the state. Realizing the importance to the country of trained men in this line of work instruction is given in every branch of agriculture and men are turned out who can utilize the forces of nature to their fullest extent. In response to the urgent need for trained pharmacists the School of Pharmacy was opened at Purdue. Although the course embraces but two years, the graduates from it are full) ' e()uippcd to enter any position open in th is line of work. The high positions now filled by the graduates of the School of Pharmacy speak volumes for the completeness and thoroughness of the work done in this department. Thus do the students receive their training, and in every line of activity into which they have entered, the graduates of Purdue have shown by their skillfulness and by the positions they have merited that this training fitted them in the very best manner possible for the com|)etition of active life. — R. L. N.

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a small traction ot an ohm u to toity liiousand uiims can be obtainetl. A comiilctc tciejiiionc system is in operation between the various buildings of the University, thus giving the students every opportunity to study this important branch of electrical vifork. That the importance of the work done in electricity at Purdue is recognized is shown by the fact that the National Fllectric Light Association has fitted up at considerable expense a photometric laboratory devoted to the solving of questions of great importance to the electrical world. The Civil Engineering Department is second to none in thoroughness and quality of equipment. Only the finest and latest makes of instruments are used. The students in this department receive practical training from the very beginning in s urveying, railroad location and maintenance, construction work, etc. The entrance of many of the students in civil engineering into practical work before they have finished their college course speaks volumes for the thoroughness of their training and the proficiency of their instructors. In the Science Department we find the greatest variation in the course of study. Owing to the elective system prevailing here a student may follow any one of si.x courses. These courses, which include Technical Chemistry, Sanitary Science, Industrial Art, Pre-Medical, General Science and Biology, overlap the engineering courses in many studies, as in mathematics, languages, physics, etc. While the equipment is naturally not so interesting and striking as that of the engineering dcjiartmenls, it is of the best kind and ]uality throughout. In the museum are found 16

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P URDU D E B R I 1 9 O H U U LITV is the measure of a man ' s obligation. This thought, from the mind of A Charles G. Finney, at one time president of Oberlin College, is an excellent expres- .ion of that which, for half a century, has been denominated The Oberlin Idea. The above quotation is suggestive of that spirit which permeates our own university life, and which, if not officially recognized as The Purdue Spirit, might with pro- priety be so designated. We refer to the spirit comprehended by the word loyalt The student of the old eastern college who has as his inheritance a century has learned to regard as counterfeit all that has not been tried by age, askance at one who dared to declare that a healthy, well-defined college spirit could prevail in an institution so young as our own. Yet we ask, Why not? Unless the marvellously rapid development of Purdue University can be explained on some other hypothesis than the fidelity of her founders to the cause which they espoused, we cannot but regard it as natural and consistent that this spirit of loyalty which dominated in the past should continue to live and grow, and thus early mature in a university spirit. Let us then reflect, briefly, upon Purdue ' s past and present in relation to the idea represented by our theme. In these latter days when men of vast fortune are distributing their wealth for the betterment of humanity, it is not unusual for a philanthropist, whose ambition it is to found a college, to con- centrate so many millions upon the project that a great university, adorned with magnificent architecture and possessing complete equipment for elaborate courses tradition, and who would doubtless look reared in a period of time so short that the spectacle partakes more of an illusion than a reality. There is truly cause for rejoicing that in our day educational enterprises of such carried into successful operation; yet we cannot but compare which obtained during Purdue ' s early struggles. magnitude are being projected and such favorable conditions with those