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This is an interview between President Emeritus
Frederick L. Hovde and Professor R. B. Eckles,
for the Purdue University Archives on August 31,
1972. President Hovde, we've touched pretty
much on your activities at Purdue and your
career what about your activities while
President outside of the university?
Well, in coming to the university in 1946, I'd
resolved in my own mind that I would limit my
external activities to a few things in believing
that the task at hand here at Purdue University
would be a be one that would really by its very
nature demand even more then the time alloted
to each man each day namely the 24 hours. I
had one publi~ service interest which was
generated by my war time service namely Defense
Research and second I had made up my mind that
I would be active in the Land Grant Association.
The conservationships with the Federal government
and part of the Land Grant Institutions was
part of a long and successful progress and one
that the Land Grant Association as an
organization developed confidence and experience
and expertsee more so than any other of the
associations of higher educational institutions.
The armed forces, of cour~e, were finalli
convinced as World War II came to an end that
strength of the armed forces and their weapon
systems was something that the armed forces and
the Defense Department itself should manage and