Excerpt from The Debris of 1916 Purdue University is one of the many so-called Land Grant Colleges, which have been based upon the Morril Act of 1862. This act provided land grants for the foundation of colleges of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts. Indiana was one of the first states to accept the provisions of this act and in 1862 the location of the university was one of the first questions that confronted the state. A great rivalry over the location sprang up in various sections of the state and it was not until 1869 that the question was finally de cided in favor of the present site on account of appropria tions subscribed for the new institution by John Purdue and Citizens of Tippecanoe County. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.