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
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Bross Kristina
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| 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
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| Pubblicazione: | 2014 |
| West Lafayette, Indiana : , : Purdue University Press, , 2014 | |
| ©2014 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 378 |
| Soggetto topico: | Nonfiction |
| History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Classificazione: | HIS036060HIS036090HIS049000 |
| Altri autori: | BrossKristina |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Little Else Than a Memory |
| ISBN: | 1-62671-012-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910591175003321 |
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