Purdue University - Debris Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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Continuing south down the driveway, our guest sees on his left the modernistic power plant constructed in i925 to replace the original but inadequate plant. lt supplies -electric power and light as well as heat to all the buildings on the campus through a maze of interconnecting tunnels under the campus sidewalks. The pow-er plant's chimney is 256 feet tall with a bottom diameter more than twenty-two feet and a top diameter of fifteen feet. The plant's six boilers rest on a concrete bas-e forty-two feet square, and they serve an academic purpose as does the entire plant. Instructors in power-plant engineering conduct their classes on inspection trips through this building. Headquarters for the maintenance force, which keeps Purdue buildings and grounds in condition, are in the Service and Stores Building which adjoins the power plant. l ,

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in 121 54 iff W ' ?-- - - As the visitor moves west along the drive he sees before him the Executive Building, one of the newest and most beautiful of Purdue's new structures. It fronts on the circle which ter- minates the parkway drive and its colonial dignity befits its prestige among campus struc- tures. ln the Executive Building are offices of President E. C. Elliott, the Registrar, Cashier, Dean of Men, D-ean of Women, Student Health Service, Personnel, Engineering Administra- tion, and all other University administrative offices. Rivaling the Fieldhouse in newness, the Executive Building was completed in the spring of l937. .fx V '

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x I Leaving the power plant and driving south, the tourist sees to his left the Chemistry Building erected in i929 and containing four stories ot well-equipped laboratories for study and research. Directly east of the Chemistry Building is historic l-leavilon l-lall towering over all other campus structures. On the night before its dedication it burned to the ground, but it was rebuilt in i895 one brick higher to symbolize Boilermaker determination. Beneath and guarded by its tradition-steeped bell tower, the Chemical Engineering School now conducts classes and laboratories, East ot l-leavilon l-lall is the Civil Engineering Building containing rooms for drawing, recitation, and research. To the rear of the structure in the newer section is located the busting lab where all construction materials are tested.