The Numbers and More, 1910-11

 

Number             Students and Graduates

256                      Undergraduate Students, Fall Semester

40                        Graduates, Bachelor of Science in Agriculture

169                      Winter Courses in Agriculture Participants

 

Number             Faculty, Courses and Academic Majors    

4                          Academic Departments

19                        Faculty Members

52                        Courses Offered to Undergraduates

6                          Academic Specializations  (Majors)

 

Dollars                Academic Year Fees, Undergraduate (Excludes special fees, includes tuition paid only by nonresidents)

$36                      Indiana Residents  ($955 in 2018 dollars, inflation-adjusted)

$61                      Nonresident, U.S. Citizen  ($1,618 in 2018 dollars, inflation-adjusted)

 

Purdue Agriculture, 1910-11

• Four of the eleven starters on the Purdue varsity football team were Agriculture students.
• “The Student Agricultural Society affords an opportunity for Freshman and Senior to come together each week and mingle on a common level. And it also offers training in presenting subjects intelligently before an audience.”  — The Purdue Agriculturist, student magazine, December, 1910 edition

Elsewhere, 1910-11

• The first Indianapolis 500 race was run on May 30, 1911.
• The Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910.