A study of the 50-year career of Edward Charles Elliott is a study of
the development of American education. Elliott had experience as a high
school and college teacher, school system superintendent, state college
system chancellor, and president of a Big Ten university, all during a
period of change in American attitudes toward public schooling and rapid
growth in education institutions. As president of Purdue University from
1922 to 1945, Elliott steered the school through years of expansion in
size, prestige, and service. Student enrollment, staff, course
offerings, buildings, and campus acreage more than doubled; the total
value of the physical plant increased more than five-fold, and the
schools of pharmacy, home economics, and graduate study were opened
under Elliott's leadership. This book shows not only how Elliott helped
make Purdue University what it is today, but documents educational
trends from 1900 to 1950 and includes a lengthy bibliography of
Elliott's writings to assist the student of higher education.