Purdue Alumnus magazine cover

WHAT CAN WE FEEL GOOD ABOUT?

Boilermakers share innovative ideas that are making the world a better place.

Illustration showing a heart and the Earth

BUILDING BELONGING

Purdue’s Equity Task Force is working to improve the university experience for Black students.

MEET MUNG

Get to know Purdue’s 13th president.

Mung Chiang

RED BRICK

The Time Is Now

Purdue’s new football coach is raising the standard to sustain success.

Making a Splash

A Boilermaker couple gives back to support the Purdue women’s swimming team.

Living Well

A wellness-infused residential development is coming to the Discovery Park District at Purdue.

The Power of a Moment

Two alumnae are showing women how to unlock their full potential and disrupt the status quo.

Lifelong Learning

An engineering grad capitalizes on Purdue Global’s Concord Law School to propel her career.

Noteworthy Namesake

Branded with the name of a transformative leader, Purdue’s reimagined School of Business launches into an exciting future.

AIM

“While we are here to widen our views, in fact to improve our minds, let us remember that we have both a body and a soul. It is our duty to care for and to develop both.

The body should be made as perfect as possible because the soul can only grow by using the material which the senses furnish it. But a man has a very low aim in life who lives only to improve and provide for the body.

Let us aim higher than this and strive constantly to attain that aim. Let us fight our own battles, and we will succeed far the better. Let our aim be that highest purpose in life—to care for the spirit; to become more cultured, refined, courteous to others, generous, respectful to self, pure.”

—From the front page of the October 1885 issue of The Purdue, a college paper that was published monthly by the university’s literary societies.

Pictured are members of the Purdue Women’s Recreation Association in 1956.

Purdue women students taking aim with bows and arrows

AIM

“While we are here to widen our views, in fact to improve our minds, let us remember that we have both a body and a soul. It is our duty to care for and to develop both.

The body should be made as perfect as possible because the soul can only grow by using the material which the senses furnish it. But a man has a very low aim in life who lives only to improve and provide for the body.

Let us aim higher than this and strive constantly to attain that aim. Let us fight our own battles, and we will succeed far the better. Let our aim be that highest purpose in life—to care for the spirit; to become more cultured, refined, courteous to others, generous, respectful to self, pure.”

—From the front page of the October 1885 issue of The Purdue, a college paper that was published monthly by the university’s literary societies.

Pictured are members of the Purdue Women’s Recreation Association in 1956.

Purdue women students taking aim with bows and arrows

DEBRIS

POSTSCRIPT

The image says: Whoever and whatever you are, if you have come to Purdue both to study and to give as well as to take the good that there is in college associations, then we're mighty glad that you're one of us. You're welcome to this old campus of ours. We're glad you're come and we hope you'll stay. The background image shows Purdue students walking in caps and gowns.

Text from a 1911 issue of the Purdue Exponent; photo from the 1973 Debris

Text from a 1911 issue of the Purdue Exponent; photo from the 1973 Debris

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