The Numbers and More, 1920-21

 

Number      Students and Graduates

548               Undergraduate Students, Fall Semester

96                 Graduates, Bachelor of Science in Agriculture

91                 Winter Courses in Agriculture Participants

 

Number      Faculty, Courses and Academic Majors

7                   Academic Departments

43                 Faculty Members

87                 Courses Offered to Undergraduates

8                   Academic Majors

 

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

$51              Indiana Residents  ($642 in 2018 dollars, inflation-adjusted)

$86             Nonresident, U.S. Citizens ($1,084 in 2018 dollars, inflation-adjusted)

 

 

Purdue Agriculture, 1920-21

• A contest among the classes resulted in nearly 100 percent membership in the Agricultural Society, the social and professional club for students.
• Purdue paid homage on Armistice Day, November 11, to her 68 loyal sons who died in World War I.

Elsewhere, 1920-21

• On November 2, 1920, Warren G. Harding was elected U.S. President in the first national election in which women were allowed to vote.
• The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, prohibition of production and consumption of alcohol, was started in1920.