Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: A shekara ta 1865, Majalisar Dattijai ta Indiana ta zabe ta yi amfani da Dokar Kwalejin Morrill Land-Grant na 1862, kuma ta fara shirye-shiryen kafa wata ma'aikata da ke mayar da hankali kan aikin gona da aikin injiniya. Al'ummomi a duk faɗin jihar sun ba da kayan aikin su da kuɗin su don neman wurin sabon kwalejin. Shahararrun shawarwari sun haɗa da ƙarin sashen aikin gona a Jami'ar Jihar Indiana ko a Jami'ar Butler ta yanzu. Zuwa 1869, tayin Tippecanoe County ya haɗa da $ 150,000 (daidai da dala miliyan 2.8 a 2018) daga shugaban kasuwancin Lafayette da mai ba da agaji John Purdue, $ 50,000 daga gundumar, da kuma kadada 100 (0.4 km2) na ƙasa daga mazauna yankin. A ranar 6 ga Mayu, 1869, Babban Taron ya kafa cibiyar a Tippecanoe County a matsayin Jami'ar Purdue, a cikin sunan babban mai ba da gudummawa. Darussan sun fara a Purdue a ranar 16 ga Satumba, 1874, tare da malamai shida da dalibai 39. Farfesa John S. Hougham shine Purdue's na farko malami memba kuma yayi aiki a matsayin mukaddashin shugaban tsakanin gwamnatocin shugabanni Shortridge da White. An kammala makarantar da ke da gine-gine biyar a ƙarshen 1874. Purdue ya ba da digiri na farko, Bachelor of Science a cikin ilmin sunadarai, a cikin 1875 kuma ya yarda da ɗalibanta na farko da suka faɗi. Emerson E. White, shugaban jami'ar daga 1876 zuwa 1883, ya bi fassarar Morrill Act. Maimakon yin koyi da jami'o'i na gargajiya, White ya yi imanin cewa Purdue ya kamata ya zama "kwalejin masana'antu" kuma ya ba da albarkatunsa don samar da ilimi mai zurfi (ko fadi) tare da girmamawa kan kimiyya, fasaha, da aikin gona. Ya yi niyyar ba kawai shirya ɗalibai don aikin masana'antu ba, har ma don shirya su su zama 'yan ƙasa masu kyau da membobin iyali. Wani ɓangare na shirin White don bambanta Purdue daga jami'o'i na gargajiya sun haɗa da ƙoƙari na rikice-rikice don hana fraternities. Wannan haramcin daga karshe Kotun Koli ta Indiana ta soke shi kuma ya haifar da murabus na White. Shugaba na gaba, James H. Smart, an tuna shi da kiransa a 1894 don sake gina...  Tambaya: Adadin kadada nawa ne kwalejin ta samu a cikin tayin?
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