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Covering the top floor of Stewart Center, the Purdue Archives house everything from John Purdue’s death mask to the largest collection of Amelia Earhart memorabilia in the world.

Buried beneath a washed-out headstone across from University Hall, there’s a body. Not much farther is a marker dedicating the grave.

Tables covered with vases of flowers, cookies with University Hall printed on them and brick tablecloths lined the perimeter of a clearing on Memorial Mall Saturday morning. Jazz music played

In 1869 John Purdue gifted 100 acres on a hill west of the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County. That property became Purdue University with classes starting in 1874.

Every year, Purdue freshmen are told at Boiler Gold Rush that if they dare to walk under the bell tower, it will ultimately take more than four years to graduate.