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In addition to Christmas and snow, Purdue students know that December means finals.\u00a0 Students are filling study spaces across campus as they prepare for exams and term papers, just as they have throughout Purdue\u2019s history.\u00a0 Can you identify this location filled with studying students, what it was called, and where it was located?\u00a0 Share your theories in the comments and check back on Friday for the full reveal!<\/p>\n
UPDATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Bookstall on the second floor of the Humanities, Social Science, and Education Library in Stewart Center was a student destination.\u00a0 The large open space, the result of a 1961 renovation, housed newspapers and periodicals and included ample room for dozens of students to complete assignments or study for exams.\u00a0 It remained a popular study spot until a new Bookstall opened with the Hicks Undergraduate Library in 1982.<\/p>\n In addition to study space, the HSSE Bookstall was sometimes an event destination.\u00a0 It hosted a series of \u201ccoffee concerts\u201d as musicians performed and crowds assembled in the space.<\/p>\n In addition to Christmas and snow, Purdue students know that December means finals.\u00a0 Students are filling study spaces across campus as they prepare for exams and term papers, just as they have throughout Purdue\u2019s history.\u00a0 Can you identify this location filled with studying students, what it was called, and where it was located?\u00a0 Share your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,64],"tags":[3863,6977],"class_list":["post-6135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-spec","tag-archives-and-special-collections","tag-from-the-archives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pT6ms-1AX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6161,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions\/6161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/12\/PUL000392.jpg?resize=917%2C596&ssl=1\")
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