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Eckles: This is recorded on the morning of July 11,
1972, an interview for the Purdue University
Archives between President Emeritus Frederick
L. Hovde and R. B. Eckles of the Department
of Hiscory.
President Hovde, we were talking yesterday
about new problems and the change after
World War II and the nature of the University's
educational services.
Hovde: Following the GI bulge which terminated about
1949-50, the University returned to its
normal student status with high school
gLaduate input of freshmen, the normal kind
of transfers from other colleges and universities,
and the entry of graduate students. During
the decades of the '50s and EOs, ~ae profes-
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sional schools of the University continued
}to grow, e~~ecially at the graduate level.
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in the University's educational services to
its clientele was in the growth of the graduate
school of the University . growth in graduate
enrollment. During this period, also, plans
were made for the introduction of several new
professional schools and curricula. The School
of Veterinary Medicine was established after
the mssue had been debated in three successive
legislative sessions. The Schbol of Veterinary
Medicine ~as one of the new professional
schools that was established in my tenure
;haand i. nteresti.n g hi' story. Th ere was genera 1
support for the establishment ~of the School
of Veterinary Medicine, even though the
profession itself was somewhat divided. A
good many members of the practicing profession
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