Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Kupfuura: Muna 1865, Indiana General Assembly yakavhotera kutora mukana weMorrill Land-Grant Colleges Act ya1862, uye yakatanga zvirongwa zvekugadzira sangano rinotarisa pakurima neinjiniya. Misha yomunharaunda yose yenyika yacho yakapa zvivako zvayo nemari kuti itengese nzvimbo yekoreji itsva. Zvikarakadzo zvakakurumbira zvaisanganisira kuwedzerwa kwedhipatimendi rezvekurima paIndiana State University kana kuti pane yava kunzi Butler University. Pakazosvika 1869, chipo cheTippecanoe County chaisanganisira $ 150,000 (yakaenzana ne $ 2.8 mamirioni muna 2018) kubva kuna Lafayette mutungamiri webhizinesi uye philanthropist John Purdue, $ 50,000 kubva kudunhu, uye 100 maeka (0.4 km2) epasi kubva kuvagari vemuno. Pana May 6, 1869, General Assembly yakatanga sangano racho muTippecanoe County sePurdue University, muzita romubatsiri mukuru. Makirasi akatanga paPurdue musi waSeptember 16, 1874, nevadzidzisi vatanhatu uye vadzidzi 39. Purofesa John S. Hougham aiva Purdue wokutanga fakaroti nhengo uye akashanda sezvo achimiririra purezidhendi pakati hurumende mapurezidhendi Shortridge uye White. Musasa wezvivako zvishanu wakapedzwa pakupera kwa 1874. Purdue yakapa dhigirii rayo rokutanga, Bachelor of Science mu kemisitiri, muna 1875 ndokubvuma vadzidzi vayo vechikadzi vokutanga kuti vawe. Emerson E. White, purezidhendi yunivhesiti kubva muna 1876 kusvika muna 1883, akatevera kududzirwa kwakasimba kweMutemo waMorrill. Panzvimbo pokutevedzera mayunivhesiti ekare, White aidavira kuti Purdue inofanira kuva "yunivhesiti yezvemabhizimisi" uye kupa zvinhu zvayo kugovera dzidzo yakasununguka (kana yakafara) nekusimbisa pane sayenzi, teknolojia, uye kurima. Iye aida kwete bedzi kugadzirira vadzidzi nokuda kwebasa romuindasitiri, asiwo kuvadzidzisa kuva vagari vakanaka uye mitezo yemhuri. Chikamu chehurongwa hwaWhite hwokusiyanisa Purdue nemayunivhesiti ekare chaisanganisira kuedza kunopesana kurambidza masangano. Kurambidzwa uku pakupedzisira kwakabviswa neDare Repamusorosoro reIndiana uye kwakatungamirira kukubviswa kwaWhite. Purezidhendi anotevera, James H. Smart, anoyeukwa nokuda kwokudanidzira kwake muna 1894 kuti avakezve...  Mubvunzo: Koleji yacho yakawana maeka mangani munyika yacho?
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