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Record Nr.

UNINA9910591175003321

Autore

Bross Kristina

Titolo

Little Else Than a Memory : Purdue Students Search for the Class of 1904 / / edited by Kristina Bross ; the Honors College, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2014

West Lafayette, Indiana : , : Purdue University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-62671-012-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Founders.

Classificazione

HIS036060HIS036090HIS049000

Altri autori (Persone)

BrossKristina

Disciplina

378

Soggetti

Nonfiction

History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""A Tale of Two Satterfields: The Power of a Purdue Education""; """"The Only Colored Drug Store"": Richard Wirt Smith's Success Story, 1904�1911""; ""Emil Farkas and William Raymond Davis: Windy City Boys""; ""Joseph Burke Knapp: ""A Barnacle on the Ship of Progress""""; ""Fitting In but Sticking Out: The Life of an Immigrant Student at Purdue in 1904""; ""Far from Home and Far from Normal: The Experience of an International Student on an American College Campus at the Turn of the Twentieth Century""

""Lyla Vivian Marshall Harcoff: The Pursuits of a Small-Town Dreamer""""""The Eternal Feminine"": An Examination of the Life and Times of the Twentieth-Century New University Woman through Cecil Clare Crane""; ""The Lost Bandsman and His Band""; ""Just Harry""; ""Epilogue: Purdue's Past through Purdue's Present""; ""Biographical Cameos""

Sommario/riassunto

* For anyone who loves Purdue University, the essays in the book provide in intriguing glimpse into the history of the University.* A fascinating example of micro-history, with the stories of individual



1904 students at one midwestern university providing insights into the wider social history of the period.* As the outcome of two undergraduate classes working together, shows how experiential learning is changing the way students are educated.