Re: [DL] Character Question

[Bryce <SandChigg@rocketmail.com>]

Thanks, both of you.  Looks like it's Purdue for m'boy after all. :)

-Bryce "staying out of the arguement"

--- Munch Wolf <munchwolf@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Ross Coburn <coburn@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > I would expect that Purdue, if open at the time,
> > would be the pre-eminent RR
> > school...  they *did* (and still do, actually) carry
> > the nickname
> > 'Boilermakers' for a reason, y'know...
> 
> Since I presently work for Purdue I figured I'd chime
> up.  Quick Purdue history found at:
> http://www.purdue.edu/OOP/facts/facts_history.html
> 
> July 2, 1862. President Lincoln signed the Morrill
> Act, by which the federal government offered to turn
> over public lands to any state that would use the
> proceeds from their sale to maintain a college to
> teach agriculture and the "mechanic arts." 
>            
> 1865. Indiana General Assembly voted to participate in
> this plan and took steps to establish such an
> institution. 
>            
> May 6, 1869. Assembly decided to locate the
> institution near Lafayette and accepted $150,000 from
> John Purdue, $50,000 from Tippecanoe County, and 100
> acres of land from local residents. Legislators
> established the institute and named it Purdue
> University. 
>            
> September 16, 1874. Classes began with six
> instructors, 39 students. 
> 
> September 12, 1876.  John Purdue, the principle
> benefactor in founding the University died in
> Lafayette, IN.
> 
> 
> The only weird part of Purdue's history which fits the
> current timeline that I noticed is that Richard Owen
> was the school's President from 1872-1874, and Abraham
> C. Shortridge was Purdue's President from 1874-1875. 
> Well classes didn't start until 1874, so what was
> Richard Owen doing for 2 years?  And why did he leave
> as soon as school started?
> 
> -Munch Wolf
> 
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