Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1907 — Tribute To Purdue. [ARTICLE]

Tribute To Purdue.

1 The Western Electrician, the foremost publication in the electrical world, pays the following tribute to Pnrdne: ’ nirof. Russ Richards, dean of, the school of mechanical engineeringdf the Ifafvbteiiy of NAbfaskA, has just concluded a thorough inspection of Pnrdne university, his visit to Lafayette, Ind., completing a four of visits to sixteen of the leading technical schools of the country. Professor Richards*, inspection trip came as a result ot the legislature of Nebraska appropriating SIOO,OOO wifji which to erect a new bnilding for the mechanical school of thfit state. Professor - i ji 1 q* 1 s j• ci •»*i »i!i jr-M Rickards paid a high compliment to IridiahA, 4 Arid partiCftiarty to Purdue university, when he pronounced that institution the best housed and the best equipped, all things considered, of all the colleges he visited. Professor Richards said, that some of the eastern uni--1 • f i » ’ -.i ~ • ‘ versifies had in certain respects a more expensive equipment but that none had a more complete or more practical engineering school than that of Purdue. Nebraska’s new bnildiDgs will no donbt be patterned alter Purdue’s plans, be said.’*