Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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RALPH B, STONE The path from University Hall to the ,Xrmory is one that is used more than any other the first of every semester. It marks the way of all flesh that finds itself without an assignment card after having stood in line for at least an hour outside and inside the Armory. Nevertheless, the registration system as a whole is very successful for those who remain regular in their studies and represents the result of many trials of different systems patterned after other lvniversities. The schedule that a student receives. the professors that he chooses. and any change that may be necessary during the year. is made possible by the registra- tion system carefully worked out by Professor Stone. The office of the Registrar is the center of inttrest to the prospective students at Purdue. The student writes to Professor Stone for information, and is supplied with a catalogue and blanks to be filled out. This eatalogue is edited by the department and gives a complete description of all courses and where they enter into the schedule of the student. Besides the information received or the blanks filled out by the prospective students. the Registrar obtains information about him from his high school, and. if he is desirable. sends him a permit to register. The registration system is vital to every institution. and Professor Stone has worked out one for Purdue that has proved itself highly successful. 23

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THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Xlihat Purdue receives comes from this group of men and women: what Purdue does, IHLISI he sanctioned hy this group of men and WOIUGII. Xvho are they? How do they get so much authority? This group is appointed from among people all over the state of lndiana, in order to give all sections a certain amount of representation in the control over our great state institution. They meet here at the University once each semester and lay out a plan of action for that particular semester. These plans are then given to the president and his statf to he carried out. They are a very important part of the machinery, and are the direct connecting link hetxveen the people of the state and the University. They are not- however, well known hy the students: in fact, they are very seldom even seen hy them. For this reason the Dehris is introducing to the students the members of the Board of Trustees and its otheers. There are on the statll three men who are recommended to the governor hy the alumni association who in turn appoints them olhcially: these men are Palmer R. Edgerton of Nlarion, limmett Hall of Indianapolis, and David lj. Ross, of Lafayette. The remaining six memhers are appointed directly hy the governor. This year David lf. Ross succeeded Henry XY. lVlarhsall as president, James XY. Noel took Nlr. Ross' place as vice-president, Mary Mills Wvilliams remained as secretary, and James M. lfoxvler as treasurer. Tivo new memhers were added to the hoard this year to take the places left vacant by Franklin lf. Chandler and Henry W. Marshall of Lafayette. They are J. limmett Hall and ilosia K. l.illy hoth of Indianapolis. ll 1 .E gfizinnm hd L ..u.1. Sui

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THE ENGINEERING SCHOOLS Purdue University through its engineering schools and departments has been contributing to the State and to the Nation in the following ways: I. JJ ll Tiflllilliillg Center for Engineerf. Over 2,2oo students were enrolled in 1927-28 in the Purdue engineering schools. These students are being prepared for effective citizenship as well as for successful practice as engineers. livery effort is being made to graduate from the Purdue Engineering Schools engineers who are resourceful and capable, who have the courage to do right, ability to think straight, willingness to work hard, personality to make them acceptable to others. and breadth of vision to utilize the new forces which science and engineering are constantly creating for the common good. 2. Jr an -Jgrury for Crfatfizg Nm' Ellg1.llEEI'l.llg Dieu .X. .X. Ponca lxzzofvffdgr. About one hundred research engineers are devoting all of their time in the Purdue Engineering Iixperiment Station to investigations of value to the railroads, industries, mines, quarries, utilities and public works. 3. .Jr I1 Medium for the DZi.f,ft'llZZi?ldfli0ll of E11g1'1z4'f1'z'11g Irzfornlatioiz. Through conferences. special classes, lectures and publications .the Purdue Engineering Extension Department is supplying technical instruction every year to thousands of people who are engaged in road building, in the electrical utilities, in the railroads, in the quarries, in the mines, in the industries and in the public works of Indiana. VIYIL ENGINEERING Modern civil engineering embraces those tech- nieal services which support life in civilized com- munities where transportation, housing. and sanitation are necessary to the existence of these communities. The civil engineer must design and build bridges across rivers, pier structures in harbors, lines of rail- ways and highways, and dams for the development of water power. Not only does he create these instrumen- talities of community and national life, but as an ex- ecutive and operator he deals with the public directly. The curriculum in civil engineering is based upon science. technology, economics, and the humanities. There are seventeen hundred alumni of the School of Civil lfngineering and about as many more who have had one or two years' instruction in this school. There are probablY 300 well trained civil engineers from Purdue University giving their service to the cities, counties and departments of Indiana, DR. W. K. Hur 124