The memoirs of homo sap, alias W.P. Kirkwood : with some hitherto unwritten history of the University of Minnesota, [1957].

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The memoirs of homo sap, alias W.P. Kirkwood : with some hitherto unwritten history of the University of Minnesota, [1957].

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Kirkwood gives information on his Ohio and Kansas boyhood; the communities where his father served as Presbyterian minister; his student days at Macalester College, St. Paul (Minn.), where his father taught psychology; his employment as a clerk in a St. Paul bank (1890-1891); and his journalistic career on the Minneapolis Tribune (1897), the Minneapolis Journal (1898-1914), and in the University of Minnesota's School of Agriculture (1914-1934). Typed carbon copy.

220 p. in 2 folders.

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The School of Agriculture opened on October 18, 1888, on the University Farm in St. Paul, with 17 students registered for the fall term. The School's administrative home was the College of Agriculture, and the School would remain a part of the College's administrative structure throughout its existence. Additional branches of the School of Agriculture were opened in Crookston (1906), Morris (1909), Grand Rapids (1921), and Waseca (1952). At their meeting on May 12, 1960, the Board of Regents, on...