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In this image, many people have gathered to complete an important task that is a regular part of every student\u2019s college experience.\u00a0 What are they doing?\u00a0 How was it organized?\u00a0 Where is this? Share your ideas in the comments and check back on Thursday for the full story!<\/p>\n
UPDATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n For a large portion of Purdue\u2019s history, course registration took place not on a computer or in a registrar\u2019s office but in a large room alongside hundreds of potential classmates.\u00a0 Beginning in 1926, registration took place in the Armory, where each of Purdue\u2019s thousands of students arrived to sign up for classes at an assigned time during a three-day registration period.\u00a0 Each department had its own table, identified by signs on tall stands, where students could ask questions and enroll in their preferred class sections.\u00a0 After signing up for all their classes, students proceeded to a bursar\u2019s table to pay their fees and finally to the registrar for schedule approval, all in one place.\u00a0 The process changed slightly from year to year.\u00a0 This large-scale registration event disappeared in the 1960s with the introduction of computer-based enrollment through the Registrar\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n This image shows registration in the Armory, circa 1930s, with a large schedule board listing class sections along the back wall.\u00a0 Below is a closer view of the schedule board being examined by President Frederick Hovde.<\/p>\n Join us again on March 26 for the next image From the Archives!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this image, many people have gathered to complete an important task that is a regular part of every student\u2019s college experience.\u00a0 What are they doing?\u00a0 How was it organized?\u00a0 Where is this? Share your ideas in the comments and check back on Thursday for the full story! UPDATE: For a large portion of Purdue\u2019s […]<\/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-6432","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-1FK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432","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=6432"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6444,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432\/revisions\/6444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/03\/Hovde_board.jpg?resize=890%2C727&ssl=1\")
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