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In the summer of 1883, Purdue's fourth president James H. Smart was conversing with his friend, John N. Hurty, in Hurty's Indianapolis drugstore. Hurty brought up the idea that it would be a good idea for Purdue University (founded 14 years earlier) to offer courses to train students as pharmacists.
The Boilermaker Special is the official mascot of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. It resembles a Victorian-era railroad locomotive and is built on a truck chassis. It is operated and maintained by the student members of the Purdue Reamer Club. [1] It is often incorrectly assumed that Purdue Pete is the official mascot of the ...
In 1886, the Purdue Student Army Training Corps, forerunner of the Reserve Officers Training Corps, formed a five-member drum corps to play music for the cadets during their morning conditioning marches. Purdue fielded its first football team a year later, in 1887. The band began playing at games soon afterward.
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Purdue All-American Marching Band perform "Hail Purdue" at the 2008 Purdue-Indiana football game " Hail Purdue! " is the official fight song of Purdue University . The lyrics were written in about 1912 by James R. Morrison (class of 1915), and set to music by Edward S. Wotawa (class of 1912).
Summer school (or summer university) is a school, or a program generally sponsored by a school or a school district, or provided by a private company, that provides lessons and activities during the summer vacation. Participation in summer schools has been shown to have substantial beneficial effects on education.
The Super Summer and Super Saturday programs are two enrichment programs designed to meet the needs of academically, creatively, and artistically gifted students from Pre-Kindergarten (age 4) through grade 8. The courses include science, technology, engineering, mathematics, visual and performing arts, as well as original interdisciplinary studies.
Herrmann attended Purdue University, where he played for coach Jim Young's Boilermakers teams from 1977 to 1980. Herrmann had an impressive college career; in 1980 he was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American , he was selected as the Big Ten Conference 's Most Valuable Player, and he finished fourth in voting for the Heisman Trophy .