Otis Prather University of Kentucky Varsity Handbook student diary
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Otis Prather University of Kentucky Varsity Handbook student diary
- Date
- 1924-1925
- Creator
- Prather, Otis
- Extent
- 0.01 Cubic feet
- Subjects
- College students--Kentucky--Lexington
- College students--Social life and customs
- Preferred Citation
- 2012ua007, Otis Prather University of Kentucky Varsity Handbook student diary, 1924-1925, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Otis Prather was a freshman at the University of Kentucky during the 1924-1925 academic year.
- Scope and Content
- Otis Prather's University of Kentucky Varsity Handbook (K-Book), 1924-1925, includes handwritten daily entries detailing Prather's activities, classes, movies he saw, the weather, and places he visited as a freshman student at the University of Kentucky. Prather's K-Book also includes a hand-written class schedule and pasted-in photographs and clippings.
- The K-Book was sponsored by the YMCA and YWCA and was distributed to new University of Kentucky students to help them become acquainted with school life and the campus. A small, pocket-sized bound book, it contained the academic calendar, university history information, freshman rules, school traditions, athletic schedules, school songs, and information about student clubs and government. In the 1924-1925 edition, the last 67 pages of the K-Book included one blank line per day for students to use as a diary, specifically as a prompt to "write mother about it."
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- this collection is only available electronically.
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright has not been assigned to the University of Kentucky.
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