Grand Old Man of Purdue University and Indiana Agriculture
Grand Old Man of Purdue University and Indiana Agriculture

Author: Frederick Whitford

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1557539243

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William Carol Latta was the 13th member of the Purdue faculty. He became the driving force behind Purdue's world-famous School of Agriculture and initiated extension services that have lasted for more than a century. In 1890, he laid out the first permanent soil fertility field experiments, inaugurating a system of research considered one of the best in the country at that time. He administered Purdue's School of Agriculture until 1907.

Chicago Dreaming
Chicago Dreaming

Author: Timothy B. Spears

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2005-06-15

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0226768740

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Part I examines the ethos of self-making and boosterism that has defined the city since its settlement in the 1830s, and argues that these energies formed the context for hinterland migration during the nineteenth century and beyond. Part 2 highlights the emotional and cultural foraces that continued to tie many migrants to the hinterland even after their arrival in Chicago. Part 3 looks at Chicago's ethnic communities through the eyes of hinterland migrants, underscoring the cultural authority of these native-born newcomers in mediating the assimilation of foreign immigrants. Chapter 6 focuses on the work of Jane Addams and Chapter 7 considers how Chicago's multiethnic community is portrayed in Edith Wyatt's and Elia Peattie's fiction and in Carl Sandburg's poetry.