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1907 1908 Registration Days— Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, September Holiday Vacation ends Monday [anuary 6 8 a in 9, 10, 11. First Semester ends Saturday, February 1. 12 m. Entrance Examinations begin Tuesday, September 10. 8 a. m. Second Semester begins Monday, February 3, 8 a. m. Examination of Delinquent Students — Tuesday, September 10, 8-30 a m Examination of Delinquent Students— Saturday. March 28, 8 a. m. First Semester begins Wednesday, September 11. 10 a m Entrance Examinations begin Monday, June 8, 8:30 a. m. Thanksgiving Recess— Wednesday. November 27, 12 m., to Monday, December 2. 8 a. m. Commencement— June 10. II. Vac; sgins Saturday, I )ec
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■cjei S3S k SS k SSS URDUE UNIVERSITY first became a reality Qp r - M in 18 - tlle - ear in which instruction was first [|3» r V 1qJ5 begun with a faculty of six members, and build- §3 [ £ 3 m S s aggregating the same large total. This fllj L J £$ bumble beginning stands in sharp contrast with sS5 ?3Sg3£3 the strength of the institution today, boasting, as she does, of faculty and assistants numbering 175 and build- ings totalling 25. Twelve years before the first instruction was attempted the university ' s foundation was laid in the Land Grant Act of Congress, passed July 2, 1862. The State of Indi- ana, three years later, obligated itself to establish a university by the acceptance of the gifts and conditions of this act. When the citizens of Tippecanoe County gave the State $230,000 for the project, the Legislature of 1869 located the institution at Lafayette, and in consideration of a donation of $150,000 by John Purdue, his name was given to the embryo institution. From the earliest work rapid expansion has been the watch- word of the growing institution ' s guardians. Buildings were the first requisite and by 1874 Ladies ' Hall, the Dorm. the Chemistry Laboratory, the Military Hall and the old Boiler and Gas House had been erected. Enthusiasm over the work was not allowed to lag, and, on the average, one building was erected each year. Such was the increase in attendance that the faculty members increas ed more rapidly than the buildings, and today the pay roll is a much more serious thing in size than even the fondest hopes of early presidents could picture. The presidents of the university have numbered to the pres- ent time five. The first was Richard Owen, who, during the first two years of the institution ' s existence, guided with great expectation his thimble full of faculty in their administration of three courses — Science, Agriculture and Engineering. The
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