The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-01-20
dent elect of the institution. The following
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$40 the Board of Trustees of Purdue UmUer-
sity;-
"The undersigned, a committee appointed
to prepare and present tor the consideration
Of the board course of study for adoption
in the university, respectfully report that,
at the first meeting of the committee, the
following resolution was adopted:
"ResolUed, That the committee will at
tempt to report at this time only upon such
course of study as relates to agriculture
and the mechanic arts.
"The committee does not report any per-
manent plan of classification of the studies,
because it was supposed important that the
professors and teachers should be consulted
thereon. The committee reports the fol-
lowing studies as relevant TO the purposes
of the university and proper to be
adopted: l. Completion Of English gram
mar. 2. Completion of arithmetic. 3. Com
Algebra. 6. Geometry. Z. Trigonometry.
S. Surveying. 8. Chemistry. 10. Civil en-
cheering. IL. Botany. II. Geology. 13.
Physiology. IA. Zoology and domestic ami
mails. Is. Veterinary science and surgery.
is. Hygiene. IL. Natural philosophy. Is.
Natural history. 10. Rhetoric and logic.
20. History. 81. Bookkeeping. %. Archi-
lecture. %. Landscape gardening. a. Ru-
raj architecture. %. Practical agriculture
and horticulture. %. Constitutional law.
q. Political economy. %. Moral philosophy.
"The act of congress making the grant of
lands requires that military tactics shall
be included in the course and the faith of the
state is pledged by her acceptance OF the
grantsto provide for thorough education and
training therein. The committee recon-
mends that until the development of the ir-
stitution, or until the policy of its manage
ment shall require additional instructors
professors and teachers be appointed to take
charge of the studies above enumerated, as
follows: First. The Observation-Disclosures
and logic. history, constitutional law, polit-
ical economy, moral philosophy. Second.
Professor of mathematics. -algebea, geometry,
trigonometry. surveying, civil engineering.
Third. Professor of natural sciences-chem-
istry, natural philosophy: natural history,
physiology. geology. Fourth. Military pro-
| fessor-military tactics, architecture, land
scape gardening, rural architecture. Fifth.
Assistant professor of natural sciences
] botany, zoology of domestic animals. Sixth.
Professor of veterinary science and surgery,
and of practical agriculture and horticulture
i'm charge of the university grounds and
farm. Seventh. Teacher-book keeping,
arithmetic, geography, English grammar.
Respectfully submitted,
t. A. HENDRICKS, NJ. l.. PIERCE,
JOHN PURDUE, Committee.
| 1t is understood that the above report con-
stitutes only a general outline of the course
of education which is contemplated under
the requirements of the statute on which the
institution is based. 1t will remain for the
faculty who alone should be expected to do
that work to lay out the details of the sys-
1 tenn and organize it in practical form. II
was determined to open the school under
the direction of Professor Hougham by the
first of March next by the organization of q
4 class and the beginning of a course of in
struction to be determined on by Messrs.
SutheIl nd and Coffroth.
A REFRACTORY MEMBER.
From the first the managers of the fund
and founders of the institution have had a
deal of trouble with Mr.. Purdue, or he has
had the trouble with them. At any rate,
there has been a chronic disagreement, which
has greatly embarrassed proceedings in the
matter of building and organization. The
gentleman for whom the school is named in
the statute OF the state, gave one hun
bred and fifty thousand dollars to secure it
to TppecanOe county. By virtue of this
donation he has assumed to dictate in mat
tiers which are only within the jurisdiction
of the board, of which he is, by provision
of the act, also a member. On Tuesday the
usual disagreements arose, and because the
board declined to accept the control of Mr.
Purdue in its action, he very fatty requested
the entire board to pass in their designations
and leave him to organize a new board, such
as he could control The governor
their way clear to comply with
the request, and in his quiet way Governor
Hendricks gave him a fatherly talk, which
would have scalded man of ordinary sus-
rceptibility, but which a member there re-
marked passed from the honored founder OF
the university like water from a ducks
back. He told Mr.. Purdue that in the board
he was entitled to just as much considera-
, ton as any other member so long as he con-
Quoted himself in a gentlemanly way, and
, to no more. That he (the governor) should
carry out the law in regard to the agricul-
tural college in every particular with pre-
cision, and other words TO the like effect
The result was that Mr.. Purdue withdrew in
disgust from the session, and lett the obsti-
nate members to go on in their own way OF
folly and perversity, as he regarded it. The
session of the board continued to arrange
minor matters part of yesterday. The build.
ings which have been before described by
|, the Sentinel are now nearly complete, and
are very fine. Arrangements are made fol
extensive tree planting this spring, and fol-
sinking an artesian well on the premises.
GoDLY SINCERITY. Half the trouble which
} many people take to be smooth and worth
less imposters in religion would make then
genuine christians. A lie is great dea
harder to tell than the truth 1t is actually
harder to be successful hypocrite than tc