Our Perspective Jay Cooperider with a piece of Purdue history, retrieved from a back room and destined for public display. The sterling silver Lafayette Cup was the prize for winning the football championship among Indiana colleges in the early 1890s. The frontiers of knowledge are pushed daily by Purdue faculty.
Students explore new ways to ensure their own career success and the vigor of the institution.
But alongside the professors, technicians, lab directors, graduate students and undergraduates advancing the causes of teaching, research and service are those whose imagination is stuck in the past. I am among that backward-looking group. It gave us an excuse to tell the stories of great people from the past whose deeds shaped the history of Purdue. In this issue, Harvey Wiley emerges from the distant past to take his place among these figures. For the rest of that story, you'll need to turn to pages 4 and 5.