Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2017
Publisher
National Council of Teachers of English
Abstract
In the spring of 1908, the students of Louisville Girls High School (LGHS) in Louisville, Kentucky, inaugurated their first school annual, a special edition of the school’s quarterly literary journal dedicated to the senior class. The object of this volume, as delineated in the preface, was “to collect into a narrow compass, and to arrange in a form convenient for reference, and consultation, a choice selection of the remarkable utterances, and pictured thoughts of the great among all classes, but chiefly of the great Seniors among the class of nineteen hundred and eight” (LGHS, Record 2). That is, a primary purpose of this annual was to compose a shared repository of memories for reference, particularly in the face of an implicitly wide range of student experiences.
Recommended Citation
Lueck, A. J. (2017). “Classbook Sense”: Genre and Girls’ School Yearbooks in the Early-TwentiethCentury American High School. College English, 79(4), 381–406.
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