Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Passage: Na 1865, Indiana General Assembly mere ntuli aka iji uru nke Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act nke 1862, wee malite atụmatụ iji guzobe ụlọ ọrụ na-elekwasị anya na ọrụ ugbo na injinịa. Obodo nile dị na steeti ahụ nyere ụlọ ọrụ ha na ego ha iji kwụọ ụgwọ maka ebe kọleji ọhụrụ ahụ ga-adị. Nkwupụta ndị a na-ewu ewu gụnyere mgbakwunye nke ngalaba ọrụ ugbo na Mahadum Indiana State ma ọ bụ na Mahadum Butler ugbu a. Ka ọ na-erule afọ 1869, onyinye Tippecanoe County gụnyere $ 150,000 (nke ruru $ 2.8 nde na 2018) site n'aka onye isi azụmaahịa Lafayette na onye ọrụ ebere John Purdue, $ 50,000 site na mpaghara ahụ, na 100 acres (0.4 km2) nke ala site n'aka ndị bi na mpaghara ahụ. Na Mee 6, 1869, General Assembly guzobere ụlọ ọrụ ahụ na Tippecanoe County dị ka Mahadum Purdue, n'aha onye isi na-eme ihe ọma. Klas malitere na Purdue na Septemba 16, 1874, ya na ndị nkuzi isii na ụmụ akwụkwọ 39. Prọfesọ John S. Hougham bụ onye nkuzi mbụ nke Purdue ma jee ozi dị ka onye isi na-arụ ọrụ n'etiti nchịkwa nke ndị isi ala Shortridge na White. A rụchara ụlọ akwụkwọ ahụ nke nwere ụlọ ise ná ngwụsị afọ 1874. Purdue nyere ya mbụ ogo, a Bachelor nke Science na onwu, na 1875 na kwetara ya mbụ nwanyi ụmụ akwụkwọ na ọdịda. Emerson E. White, mahadum's president si 1876 ka 1883, soro a siri ike nkọwa nke Morrill Act. Kama iṅomi mahadum oge gboo, White kwenyere na Purdue kwesịrị ịbụ "ụlọ akwụkwọ kọleji" ma tinye ego ya n'inye agụmakwụkwọ na-emesapụ aka (ma ọ bụ sara mbara) na-ekwusi ike na sayensị, teknụzụ, na ọrụ ugbo. O bu n'obi ọ bụghị nanị ịkwadebe ụmụ akwụkwọ maka ọrụ ụlọ ọrụ, kamakwa ịkwadebe ha ịbụ ezigbo ụmụ amaala na ndị òtù ezinụlọ. Akụkụ nke atụmatụ White iji mata ọdịiche dị n'etiti Purdue na mahadum oge gboo gụnyere mgbalị a na-arụ ụka iji machibido fraternities. Ụlọikpe Kasị Elu Indiana mechara kagbuo mmachibido iwu a ma mee ka White gbaa arụkwaghịm. Onye isi ala ọzọ, James H. Smart, ka a na-echeta maka oku ya na 1894 iji wughachi...  Ajụjụ: Ekerenti ala ole ka kọleji ahụ nwetara na onyinye ahụ?
100 acres