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Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 3, No. 6, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter and course catalog, this issue promotes the Training School.

Rules For Official Tractor Tests, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab, Agicultural Experiment Station

Nebraska Tractor Tests

The Nebraska Tractor Law known as House Roll 85, 37th session, which became effective July 15, 1919, was enacted to encourage the manufacture and sale of imporved types of tractors and to contribute to a more successful use of the tractor for farming.

It was thought that the best method of accomplishing these objects would be to require a tractor of each model sold in the State to be tested at the State University and to have the results of these tests made public. These tests will give reliable information on the power capacity and fuel consumtion of each tractor …

Home Ec. Girls Have Practice House, The Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

In accordance with the Smith-Hughes Act, North Hall is being used as a practice house for the Home Economics seniors. The Smith-Hughes Act was enacted in 1917, providing federal aid to states to promote pre-collegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 3, No. 5, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter and course catalog, this issue promotes teacher education.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 3, No. 4, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter and course catalog published bi-monthly. This issue focuses on agriculture and home economics.

Editorial Regarding Samuel Courtney, Maine Campus Staff

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Editorial from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus regarding of what they describe as a "hazing" incident of Black students Roger and Samuel Courtney who were tarred and feathered.

A photograph of the incident is featured in the collection.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 3, No. 2, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter and course catalog published bi-monthly. This issue focuses on the Summer School and veterans of World War I.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 3, No. 1, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter and course catalog promoting Western Kentucky University. This issue focuses on rural education.

Diary For 01 01 To 04 09, 1919, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a resident of West Pembroke, Maine.

Diary For 07 07 To 09 19, 1919, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a resident of West Pembroke, Maine.

Diary For 04 10 To 07 06, 1919, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a resident of West Pembroke, Maine.

Diary For 10 04 To 12 31, 1919, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a resident of West Pembroke, Maine.

Financial Records, 1919, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a resident of West Pembroke, Maine. This sections includes information about cash paid and cash received during the year of 1919.

Photograph Of Courtney Brothers Tarred And Feathered, Author Unknown

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Photograph of two Black students Samuel and Roger Courtney tarred and feathered While at the time this incident was described as "hazing" incident carried out by University of Maine a modern interpretation, by scholars such as Karen Sieber, Humanities Specialist at the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, was that this was actually a racist attack.

Sieber has featured this incident in her, Visualizing the Red Summer database and archive on the topic of the Red Summer of 1919, a term given to a nationwide wave of violence against African Americans that year.

More information on this incident can be elsewhere in this …

Rules For Tractor Demonstrations, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

The object of these rules, instructions and data is to make all tractor demonstrations of this kind comparable and of the greatest educational value. Anyone who has conducted tractor demonstrations in the past has realized the necessity of some standard rules to follow and those who afterwards have referred to the results, deplore the lack of uniformity in the demonstrations and the data. For those who have not had this experience will find that it is a great help to have satisfactory rules to follow.

The value of these demonstrations depends largely upon the accuracy of the data reported on …

Father Of Test Law Explains It, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

Nebraska State Representative Wilmot F. Crozier of Osceola, Nebraska, who fathered and pushed the tractor bill through the Nebraska State Legislature. On September 19th, 1919, he tells why he formulated the law and his story to Implement & Trade Journal.

Annual Report Of Assistant Emergency Demonstration Agent In Southern Aroostook County For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1919, J. H. Philbrick

General University of Maine Publications

No abstract provided.

Cooperative Extension Work In Agriculture And Home Economics, Annual Report Of County Agent (Aroostook County), December 31, 1918-June 30, 1919, Aroostook County Extension Association, John H. Philbrick

General University of Maine Publications

No abstract provided.

Cooperative Extension Work In Agriculture And Home Economics, Annual Report Of County Agent (Aroostook County), October 9, 1917-December 1, 1918, Aroostook County Extension Association, John H. Philbrick

General University of Maine Publications

No abstract provided.

Annual Report Of Home Demonstration Work In Aroostook County For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1919, Eunice H. Niles

General University of Maine Publications

No abstract provided.

Phi Eta Kappa, War Record Of Great World War, 1914-1918, Phi Eta Kappa

General University of Maine Publications

A scanned version of a pamphlet prepared by Phi Eta Kappa to provide a record of those who were members of the University of Maine fraternity who served in the Great War of 1914-1918.