Title Little else than a memory : Purdue students search for the class of 1904 / edited by Kristina Bross

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

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations, photographs Contents 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 DreamerThe 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 Summary Completely produced by students in the Purdue University Honors College, this book contains ten essays by undergraduate students of today about their forebears in the class of 1904. Two Purdue faculty members have provided a contextualizing introduction and reflective epilogue. Not only are the biographical essays written by students, but the editing, typesetting, and design of this book were also the work of Purdue freshmen and sophomores, participants in an honors course in publishing who were supervised by the staff of Purdue University Press. Through their individual studies, the authors of the biographies inside this book were led in interesting and very different directions. From a double-name conundrum to intimate connections with their subjects' kin, their archival research was rife with unexpected twists and turns. Although many differences between modern-day university culture and the campus of 1904 emerge, the similarities were far more profound. Surprising diversity existed even at the dawn of the twentieth century. Students intimately tracked the lives of African Americans, women, farm kids, immigrants, international students, and inner-city teens, all with one thing in common--a Purdue education. This study of Purdue University's 1904 campus culture and student body gives an insightful look into what the early twentieth-century atmosphere was really like--and it might not be exactly what you'd think Analysis History of the Americas Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record In Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR Subject Purdue University -- History -- 20th century Purdue University -- Students -- History -- 20th century Purdue University -- Students -- Biography SUBJECT Purdue University fast Subject History of the Americas. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) Students Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Bross, Kristina, editor ISBN 1626710120 1626710139 9781626710139 9781626710122

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