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Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Iii, No. 2, Western Kentucky University Dec 1911

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Iii, No. 2, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

  • The Irish at Home by S.C. Summers
  • Interrupted Reveries
  • A Small Boy's Christmas
  • The Spirit of Christmas by Avis Hines
  • The Coys' Corn Club by S. C. Summers
  • Christmas
  • Spirit of the Season
  • Fairy-Story or Facts
  • Uncle Sam and Christmas
  • The Balance Sheet
  • Arbor Day
  • Honor Roll
  • Corn Show
  • To Subscribers
  • Chapel Echoes
  • XchanG
  • News from Many Sources
  • Read!!! by Maude Hurt
  • Seniors
  • Alumni
  • Arbor Day
  • Lyceum Course
  • Jokes


Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 1, Wku Registrar Nov 1911

Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 1, Wku Registrar

WKU Archives Records

Course catalog & newsletter:

  • Special to Former Students
  • The Students’ Edition of the State Normal Bulletin
  • The Demand for Teachers
  • The Opening of the Fall Session
  • The Second Term, November 21, 1911
  • The Mid-Winter Term
  • The Fourth Term
  • The Summer School of 1912
  • Courses of Study
  • The County Certificate Course
  • The School of Music
  • The New Catalog
  • A Word to School Trustees & to All of Those Who Employ or Recommend the Employment of Teachers


Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Iii, No. 1, Western Kentucky University Nov 1911

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Iii, No. 1, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

  • Consolidation of Rural Schools by C.T. Canon
  • Normal News
  • Letter to the Editor by Lena Palmore
  • November
  • Thanksgiving
  • The Spirit of the Season
  • The Chestnut Hunt
  • The Cheater
  • The "Golden Rule"
  • Humor
  • The Senior Class
  • Juniors and Kit-Kats by Nilla Hancock
  • The Reception for the Ohio County Teachers
  • The Daviess County Outing
  • The Chestnut Hunt
  • XchangG
  • Thanksgiving with the Poets
  • Hallowe'en
  • Thanksgiving
  • Jokes
  • Chapel Echos


Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 10, Western Kentucky University Oct 1911

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 10, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

  • Extracts from the Alumni Address by Hon. L.P. Tanner
  • Commencement, 1911
  • The Seniors' Picnic by Mrs. T.H. Napier
  • The Opening
  • The Societies
  • Book Notices
  • The Microbe's Serenade by Ivan Barnes
  • A Tribute to the Efficiency of the Labor of the Office Force
  • Under Cupid's Wings
  • To Subscribers
  • Howdy!
  • For Heads of All Thicknesses
  • Subscriptions
  • Marriages
  • The New Student
  • The Initiative
  • Jokes
  • Normal News
  • Seniors
  • Reception to Students
  • School Calendar


Ua45/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 4, Western Kentucky University Aug 1911

Ua45/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 4, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Informational bulletin which includes:

  • Greeeting
  • Courses of Study Offered by the Western Kentucky State Normal School
  • Condensed Information
  • A Word to Those Who Employ or Recommend the Employment of Teachers
  • Campus photos
  • Editorials
  • Expenses
  • Summer School


Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. V, No. 1, Bowling Green Business University Aug 1911

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. V, No. 1, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

  • Next Place
  • The Big Fired and the Bowling Green Business University
  • If and If
  • The Time Was
  • An Investment
  • Professor L.T. Dickey
  • Seibert’s Band at BGBU Chapel
  • Booming Big Institution
  • Kentucky Defined
  • No Cut Rates
  • Fifteen Hundred Boarders
  • Our Competitors
  • To the Ambitious
  • May or May Not
  • What Advancement?
  • Outings, Recreation & Rent
  • Topmiller Orchestra at Chapel
  • Wonderful Speed
  • A Good Name
  • All Lost!
  • Typewriting
  • How a Teacher May Double His Salary
  • Is It Fair?
  • Champion Typewriter …


Ua3/1/1 President's Report, Wku President's Office - Cherry Aug 1911

Ua3/1/1 President's Report, Wku President's Office - Cherry

WKU Archives Records

President Henry Cherry's report to Kentucky Superintendent of Public Instruction Ellsworth Regenstein. Includes review of curriculum and certificates granted.


Ua45/2 Student / Alumni Register, Wku Registrar Jul 1911

Ua45/2 Student / Alumni Register, Wku Registrar

WKU Archives Records

List of students/alumni created by Henry Cherry using index block of a ledger. The ledger does not exist. It is possible that this is a reconstituted list of students/alumni from the Southern Normal School.


Ua45/1 Wksnc Catalog, Rural School Number, Wku Registrar Jul 1911

Ua45/1 Wksnc Catalog, Rural School Number, Wku Registrar

WKU Archives Records

Course catalog which includes:

  • Faculty
  • Announcement
  • History of WKU
  • How to Secure Free Tuition
  • Site for Model Rural School Secured
  • Courses of Study
  • Rural Teachers' Course
  • Advanced Certificate Course
  • Regular Normal Course
  • Courses in Agriculture
  • School of Music
  • Lyceum Course 1911-1912
  • Educational Items
  • Literary Societies and the Moot House of Representatives
  • The Summer School
  • Expense
  • List and Price of Text-Books Used in the Normal


Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 9, Western Kentucky University Jul 1911

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 9, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

  • Our Folks
  • School of Expression -- A Summary by Maude Hurt
  • Kit Kat Klub
  • Juniors
  • Seniors
  • XchanG
  • Book Reviews
  • Editorials
  • Report from the Walking Trip to Mammoth Cave, June 8-13, 1911 by Lillian Winkler
  • Incidnets of the Cave Trip by Elizabeth Davis
  • Cave Formations
  • Normal Heights
  • Grammar 3 by Lorene Colley
  • Rainy Days
  • L'Allegro and Il Penseroso by Finley Grise
  • A Dream of School Days by Amy Longest
  • The Land of To-Morrow by W.L. Matthews
  • The Play: …


Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 8, Western Kentucky University Jun 1911

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 8, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

  • Back to Manhood by Gordon Wilson, Opal Taylor and Eva Becker
  • Ebon Eyes
  • Wanted
  • Dead Languages
  • The Doctrine of Rest
  • Graduates
  • Senior Class of 1912
  • Jokes
  • XchanG
  • Clippings
  • Athletics
  • News
  • Oratorical Contest
  • Chapel Program


Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 7, Western Kentucky University May 1911

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 7, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

  • Back to Manhood by Gordon Wilson, Opal Taylor and Eva Becker
  • Delights of the Simple Life
  • Music by Bessie Beck
  • Normal Heights
  • A Flower Garden by L.F. Carwile
  • Western Normal Yells
  • Student Loyalty
  • The Infinitesimal
  • The Dedication
  • The Convocation and Dedication by Maude Hurt
  • Greetings Given by Students on the Evening of the Dedication, May 5th
  • XchanG
  • Jokes
  • Normal News
  • Reception to Citizens
  • Music Festival


Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 6, Western Kentucky University Apr 1911

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 6, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

  • Normal School News
  • Alumni by Mattie Reid
  • Letter to Glasgow and Southern Normal Alumni by J.R. Alexander
  • Literary Notes
  • Cleaning-Up Day
  • As the Editor Seeth, the Dedication
  • The Out-of-Doors
  • Spring Fever
  • The Rusher vs. the Plodder
  • May Issue
  • Normal Doings
  • The First Spring Outing
  • Chapel Echoes
  • Exchanges
  • A Part Payment on an Owed to Examinations
  • What It Means for Some People to Complete a Course in the Normal by P.G. Smith
  • Laugh If You Want To


Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 6, Western Kentucky University Mar 1911

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 6, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

  • The First Chapel by Eva Becker
  • A Fairy Story
  • The Odor of the Soil
  • The Other Fellows
  • Musings of Ye Editor
  • Have We Gone Up?
  • Normal Events Here and There
  • Athletics
  • Laugh If You Want To


Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 2, Wku Registrar Feb 1911

Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 2, Wku Registrar

WKU Archives Records

Course catalog & newsletter:

  • Cherry, Henry. Letter to Readers
  • The Catalog Number
  • The Students’ Edition of the Bulletin
  • School of Music
  • Course of Study
  • School of Music
  • Expenses – Tuition, Board, Frisbie Hall
  • Editorials
  • The Elevator


Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 5, Western Kentucky University Feb 1911

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 5, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

  • The Mid-Winter Opening by Mary Crutcher
  • The Call Answered by Ella Judd
  • Thoughts at the Tomb of Washington by Mattie Morgan
  • Patriotism by Finley Grise
  • Exchanges
  • Editorials
  • Seniors and Juniors
  • Marriages
  • Oddities
  • Personals
  • Athletics
  • Letter to the Editor from R.W. Everett


Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 4, Western Kentucky University Jan 1911

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 4, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

The Elevator was published by the Western Kentucky State Normal School student body, monthly during the school year between 1909-1916.

Table of Contents:

  • Sonnet to President H.H. Cherry on Moving WKSNS to Normal Heights
  • Moving Day
  • Lady Macbeth's Confession by Maud Hurt
  • Resolution in honor of G.C. Morris
  • The Vision on the Hill by Nellie Smith
  • Editorials
  • Exchanges
  • Red Letter Days
  • Pleasantries
  • In and About the Normal
  • Literary Society Notes
  • Personals


Ua3/1/5/3 Will You Help? / Catechism, Western Kentucky University, Henry Cherry Jan 1911

Ua3/1/5/3 Will You Help? / Catechism, Western Kentucky University, Henry Cherry

WKU Archives Records

Broadside printed to raise funds for construction of Western Kentucky University. Obverse is the Plan for the Campus of the State Normal School in the Western District of Kentucky at Bowling Green by Henry Wright. Reverse is "Catechism" by Henry Cherry which was read at the first chapel exercises February 6, 1911.


Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty Jan 1911

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Archives Records

Minutes of WKU faculty meetings for 1911 from Books 1 and 2. The books have slight variations. See also Book 1 Index.


Ua97/3 Admissions / Student Rolls Register, Ogden College Registrar Jan 1911

Ua97/3 Admissions / Student Rolls Register, Ogden College Registrar

WKU Archives Records

Admissions / student rolls register created by the Ogden College Registrar for the years 1894-1911.

Includes name, parent/guardian, residence, boarding place, entrance examination scores, remarks, some entries have class, room, schedule instead of entrance exam scores.

  • Candidates for Admission 1894-1906
  • Declamation Grades 1894-1906
  • Enrollment Statistics 1883-1906 p. 96
  • Honor Roll 1894-1906
  • Reports to Commission of Education
  • 1897-1898 pp. 52-53
  • 1899 p. 68
  • 1900 p. 86
  • 1901 p. 112
  • 1902 p. 128
  • 1903 p. 137
  • Student Rolls 1894-1907; 1910-1911