Across
- 4. Official Purdue mascot
- 6. Credited as campus Founder
- 8. Fieldhouse tragedy, 1947
- 10. Purdue’s first black track team member, 1905
- 11. Purdue’s first female engineering professor, 1935
- 12. Purdue’s college nickname; thanks to Crawfordsville, Indiana newspaper
- 13. First Chinese Ph.D. at Purdue, 1950
- 15. Purdue’s first dean of women, 1913-1933
- 16. famous aviator who spent time as Purdue instructor and career counselor, 1935-1937
- 18. Dean of women, 1947-1956
- 20. Namesake of Matthews Hall; founding dean of home economics, 1926
- 23. Original name of Indiana’s land grant institution
- 27. Dangerous off-campus brawling event between freshmen and sophomores, 1897-1913
- 30. Location of federal land sold for Indiana’s land grant (abbrev)
- 31. A mythical beast; protector of priceless possessions
- 33. Dean of women, 1956-1974, and Purdue’s first dean of students, 1974
- 34. Meredith Hall’s original designation
- 36. Purdue’s first black athlete, 1904
- 37. Purdue All-American basketball player; Coached Indiana State and UCLA
- 39. Important documentary of Black experience at Purdue University
- 40. Purdue’s first female Trustee
- 42. Purdue’s first “official” dean of women, 1933-1947
- 43. Equality champion for on-campus housing integration; building designation PRKW; 1947
Down
- 1. first fraternity at Purdue, 1875
- 2. Black students demanding change on Hovde Hall steps, 1968
- 3. First Black Trustee, 1990
- 5. First black female to earn Purdue Ph.D., 1955
- 7. Championed equality for housing, 1942
- 9. Name of area in front of Hovde
- 14. directed the Business Opportunity Program at Krannert, 1969-2005.
- 17. Purdue’s first black graduate, 1894
- 18. Residence hall rumored to be sinking
- 19. first black professor, 1968
- 21. Purdue is founder and charter member of this collegiate athletic conference, 1896
- 22. Father of FDA and Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval; former Chemistry Professor
- 24. Oldest current building on campus (abbr.)
- 25. National legislation that spawned Purdue University
- 26. Championed equality for housing and campus services; 1946 graduate
- 28. Dangerous fraternity boxing fundraiser, 1974-1993
- 29. rallied the campus in 1894 with famous words, “One Brick Higher”
- 32. Purdue’s first female president
- 35. Name of Purdue president’s home, since 1971
- 38. Equality champion for on-campus housing integration; building designation PRKF; 1947
- 41. Purdue Village’s original name (abbrev)
