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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. X, No. 6, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Chapel Calendar
• Class & Club
• Editorials
• Exchange Tidbits
• Personals
• Society
• Trype

This issue contains articles:

• 1934 Talisman Staff Officers Are Appointed
• Sophomores Plan to Present Dramas
• Addresses Class – J.H. Holmes
• To Head Educators – Tullus Chambers
• Miss Sibyl Stonecipher Delivers Address at Meeting, Dec. 2
• Squad 5 of Company A Judge Best in ROTC
• Music Groups on Hill Give ‘The Nativity’
• Dr. R. A. Jones, Inventor, Was Once a Student Here
• Conference of Teachers Meets Here
• Stagecrafter Play Scheduled Tonight
• Dora Belle Baird …

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. Xxxi, No. 2, Bowling Green Business University

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

Ua1b3/5 Meeting Minutes, Wku Cherry Statue Committee

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Meeting minutes for the WKU Cherry Statue Committee regarding the creation of the Henry Cherry Statue for Western Kentucky University.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. X, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Chapel Calendar
• Class & Club
• Editorials
• Exchange Tidbits
• Personals
• Society
• Training School News
• Trype

This issue contains articles:

• Annual Homecoming Features Reunions, Traditional Chapel
• W.L. Matthews Speaks
• Chester Travelstead Attends N. Y. U.
• Mary McChesney Is Ill
• “W” Club Alumni Reassemble Here Homecoming Day
• Orchestra Appears at Chapel
• Players’ Guild Gives Seventh Heaven’ on Hill
• Hibbs, Joe. “Must I Go?” Is Freshman’s Pitiful Plea to Prof. Page
• Taylor, ? A Tribute to Professor A. C. Burton
• “The Nativity” Is to Be Presented on December …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. X, No. 2, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Chapel Calendar
• Class & Club
• Editorials
• Exchange Tidbits
• Personals
• Society
• Training School News
• Trype

This issue contains articles:

• Disarmament Possible, Says Senator Mills Logan
• Homecoming Advertised by Radio
• Lectures to Frosh Are Scheduled
• Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association Announces Individual Awards to Best Reporters
• Faculty Continues Kentucky Education Association Membership
• Baptists Hold Reception
• A.C. Burton to Speak
• New Courses Offered – Chemistry
• Press Group Meets Here
• Alumni of Western Hold Meet at Dixon
• Players’ Guild Is to Stage “Seventh Heaven” on Oct. 20
• Former Editor …

Ua1b3/5 Meeting Minutes, Wku Cherry Statue Committee

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Meeting minutes for the WKU Cherry Statue Committee regarding the creation of the Henry Cherry Statue for Western Kentucky University.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. X, No. 1, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Class & Club
• Editorials
• Trype
• Personals
• Society

This issue contains articles:

• Schools Need Changes, Says Kentucky Educational Commission Report
• Cedar House Radio Meets Tragic End
• Training School Opens Sept. 12
• Sister of Blanche Fitzsimmons Dies of Scarlet Fever – Mary Fitzsimmons
• Psychology Head Visit West – M.L. Billings
• Baptist Young Peoples Union Groups Meet
• Fall Semester Registration Closes Sept. 25
• Install Broadcasting Station
• To Address Teachers – W.L. Matthews
• Grad to Visit Hill – Arnold Winkenhofer
• Thirteen Rules for Use of Library Are Given …

Ua11/1 Teachers College Heights Vol. 14, No. 3, Western Kentucky University

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Teachers College Heights magazine promoting WKU and documenting campus events and courses offered.

• Fall Semester Courses, 1933
• Rifle Team Wins Honors
• County Superintendents Graduate from Western
• Faculty Entertains Graduates
• College Gives Specific Service to Rural Schools
• Breakfast for Dr. & Mrs. Lorado Taft
• Homecoming
• Potter College Reunion
• The Alumni Association
• Stickles, Arndt. New Book, Parlance of Kentucky Backwoods by Bess Cherry
• The Faculty
• AB & BS Class 1923-1924
• AB & BS Class of 1933
• Former Students Who Have Received the PhD Degree
• Class of 1908
• The Kentucky Building
• Southern Normal School Class of 1903
• Stickles, Arndt. WKU Occupies an Historic …

The Drawing & Holding Power Of The Ohio County High Schools, P. L. Sanderfur

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study can be divided into three parts:

1. To determine the drawing and holding power of the Ohio County high schools.
2. To find out why certain students are dropping out of school.
3. To offer suggestions, if possible, as to how the drawing and holding power of the Ohio County high schools may be increased.

A Comparative Study Of The Ability & Effort Of Mccracken County & Paducah, Kentucky, To Support Their Educational Programs, Herman Robertson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem is four-fold:

1. To compare the ability of McCracken County and Paducah, Kentucky, to finance their educational programs.
2. To compare the effort that McCracken County and Paducah are making to finance their educational programs.
3. To compare the educational programs of McCracken County and Paducah.
4. To suggest a defensible educational program based on the ability and effort of the educational unit to support it.

A Study Of The Grades Of The Western Kentucky State Teachers College During The Years 1929-30, 1930-31, 1931-32, Carolyn Seward

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem selected for this thesis is "A Study of the Grades of the Western Kentucky State Teachers College during the Years 1929-30, 1930-31, 1931-32." The purpose of the study is as follows:

1. To compare the distribution of grades by the various instructors of the college.
2. To weight the grades assigned by the individual instructors.
3. To compare the distribution of grades by the various departments.
4. To weight the grades assigned by departments.
5. To compare the grades given by instructors within the same departments.
6. To compare the grades given by the college as a whole with other colleges.
7. To compare the …

Relative Scholastic Success Of College Students From High Schools Of Varying Sizes, Leonard Lee Hudson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Education in America has made substantial growth in its various phases. No factor has been more marked than in the secondary field. The South was tardy in establishing a systematic scheme owing to the devastation of a Civil War and the misunderstandings natural to a reconstruction period. Many forces for the improvement of the secondary field in this section are now accomplishing wonderful results. Accrediting associations to investigate, recommend, and regulate certain practices, different divisions of the state department of education to supervise and inspect, research organizations, graduate schools, and school authorities are adding to the fund of knowledge regarding …

The Training Of High School Teachers In Kentucky From Western Kentucky Teachers College In Relation To The Subjects They Teach, Harod Patton

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Much has been written concerning the kind of training a high-school teacher should have, but very little has been written concerning the training they have in relation to what they teach. Not very much is known concerning the actual facts of the condition existing at the present in the high schools in the state of Kentucky. The purpose of this study is to find these facts as they are and on this basis to determine the relationship that exists between the major and minor subjects and administrators from the Western Kentucky State Teachers College; and the subject they teach. Also, …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Ix, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Class & Club
• Editorials
• Exchange Tidbits
• Lines & Spaces
• Personals
• Society

This issue contains articles:

• Senator M. M. Logan Discusses Problems of Government Here
• Chester Travelstead Gets Position with New York Stock Co.
• Chapel Now Held Weekly
• Poultry Meet Scheduled
• Plans Proceed for Frosh Days
• WHAS Features Sanders Sisters in Second Bill
• Music Department Presents Variety Bill at Chapel
• Mother of Rex Myers Dies – Belle Myers
• John Coffin Passes
• Dr. John Gross of Union College to Deliver Sermon on August 6
• Faculty Party …

President's Report, Wku President's Office - Cherry

Board of Regents Documents

President Henry Cherry's report to the Board of Regents:

• Retrenchment Statement pp. 12-15
• Training School pp. 16-17
• Agriculture in the College pp. 18-20
• Physical Education & Health 1932-1933 pp. 21-27
• Industrial Arts Department pp. 28-32
• Music Department p. 33
• Extension Department pp. 34-37
• The College Library pp. 38-40
• The College Band p. 41
• Personnel Department pp. 42-45
• The College Heights Foundation pp. 46-49
• The Kentucky Building pp. 50-52
• Maintenance & Operation Department pp. 53-54
• The College Heights Herald p. 55
• The Post Office p. 56
• College Heights Bookstore pp. 57-58
• Enrollment p. 59
• Per Capita Cost of the Four Teachers …

Ua3/1/2/1 Henry Cherry Correspondence, Wku President's Office

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Correspondence between A.L. Young of Mississippi Delta State Teachers College and WKU president Henry Cherry regarding chapel assemblies in colleges. Cherry gives a description of what occurred in WKU's chapel services.

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

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

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Ix, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Class & Club
• Editorials
• Exchange Tidbits
• Lines & Spaces-
• Personals
• Society

This issue contains articles:

• Passion Play Is Set for July 3
• Louise Welch Is Given Founder’s Medal for 1933
• Manual Arts Group Wins Favor for Its Exhibit on June 1
• Senator Attends Reception – C.R. Franklin
• W.R. Carson Heads Ohio County Schools
• Presbyterian Head Delivers Sermon to Graduating Class – John Vander Meulen
• Sam Martin Makes Perfect Score to Cop National Title
• Mr. W.M. Willey Writes Article Published in June Magazine
• Cadiz Seniors …

Ua97/1 Ogden College Trustees Meeting Minutes, Ogden College Trustees

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Meeting minutes of the Ogden College trustees regarding appointment of new trustees Cooper Smith and Edward Stout, Perry Snell Chair of Philosophy and John Rodes appointed regent during R.C.P. Thomas' appointment as judge in the Panama Canal Zone.

What Is The Ability And Effort Of Washington County To Finance Its Educational Program?, Joseph Howard

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study attempts to measure the ability, the effort and the educational program of Washington County. It also recommends an educational program based upon the ability of the county to finance it.

The Attitude Of The Presidents Of The United States Toward Education As Revealed In Their Messages To Congress, Kelsey R. Cummins

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis is undertaken with the intention of studying the attitude of the Presidents of the United States toward education as revealed in their messages to Congress. The writer chose this subject because he felt that the messages and speeches reflect their attitude toward education and to some extent at least reflect the national attitude. Since this group has included some of America’s ablest leaders, education may find in their works arguments of great weight.

Since the study was restricted to the messages of Presidents, naturally Richardson’s “Messages and Papers of the Presidents of the Presidents to 1908” is the …

Specific Training As A Means Of Developing Specific Abilities In Reading, Ola Roemer

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The problem specifically stated is: What is the effect of specific training upon the development of the ability to pick out central thoughts of paragraphs as compared with the results of obtained in the same direction from general reading procedures?

The purpose of this study is to compare the results of specific training upon the development of this special ability in reading with the results obtained in the same direction from general reading procedures.

Ua12/2/2 1933 Talisman, Wku Student Affairs

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1933 Talisman yearbook.

• Prologue
• Foreword
• Dedication – Mattie McLean
• In Memoriam – Lowe Johnson
• College
• Faculty
• Classes
• Training School
• Organizations
• Senior Play Spooks
• Athletics
• Western vs. Evansville College – Football
• Western vs. Transylvania – Football
• Western vs. Vanderbilt – Football
• Western vs. Middle Tennessee Teachers – Football
• Western vs Murray – Football
• Western vs. Georgetown Homecoming Game – Football
• Western vs. Union University – Football
• Western vs. Louisville – Football
• Basketball 1933
• Kentucky State Intercollegiate Athletic Association Tournament – Basketball
• Features
• 1932-Kalendar-1933

Activities Of County School Superintendents In Kentucky, G. R. Mccoy

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study is undertaken to find out what activities are actually performed by the county school superintendent in the state of Kentucky. Much theorizing has been done about what he should do and how he should allocate his time, but it seems that no one has done much to find out just what he does. Courses of instruction are being offered in many colleges for the purpose of preparing person to administer efficiently the office of county school superintendent. These courses are based mainly on theory and not on facts. It is hoped that this study will aid instructors in …

A Study Of The Public School System Of Todd County, Edwin Hadden

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Statement of Problem - The main problem is an attempt to find how Todd County, as a unit, can best provide for the elementary and secondary education of her 2,650 boys and girls. The aims of the consideration of this problem are five, as follows:

1. To compare the efficiency of the one-room schools with the central schools, and the central schools with the independent graded school.
2. To compare teacher results and teacher qualifications.
3. To discover the needed number of elementary and high school plants.
4. To discover the needed number of elementary and high school teachers.
5. To secure a basis for …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Ix, No. 12, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Class & Club
• Editorials
• Exchange Tidbits
• Lines & Spaces-
• Personals
• Society

This issue contains articles:

• Lorado Taft Slated to Deliver Address June 1 to Graduates
• Alumni Luncheon Set for Noon on Thursday, June 1
• Hearst Awards Given Riflemen
• Press Association Has Spring Parley at Centre College
• Former Instructor Is Critically Ill – John Coffin
• Miss Clara Elledge Directs Chapel Music Program
• First Graduating Class to Have Reunion on Hill – Class of 1908
• Mad Bull Chases Bewildered Student – Eddie Daniels
• Swimming Pool Opened …

Executive Committee Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Discussion of bids for swimming pool laundry, athletic supplies and foodstuffs.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Ix, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Class & Club
• Editorials
• Exchange Tidbits
• Lines & Spaces-
• Personals
• Society

This issue contains articles:

• Student Killed in Car Wreck; Others Injured – Everett Wilson
• Rifle Team Is Placed Second in National Match
• Congress Club Has Annual Mock Trial
• Orchestra Wins Honors – Shawnee Junior High School
• Kentucky Education Association Parley Ends at Louisville
• Mr. H.F. McChesney Speaks on Science and God at Chapel Exercises
• Place Memorial Pictures – Lowe Johnson
• Attend Lecture - Edith Parker
• Elected Pianist at Club – John Endicott
• Speaks …

Executive Committee Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

A meeting to discuss purchase of foodstuffs and amplifier for auditorium. Also renewal of surety bonds and payment to settle labor dispute on swimming pool.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Ix, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Class & Club
• Editorials
• Exchange Tidbits
• Lines & Spaces-
• Personals
• Society

This issue contains articles:

• Sir Herbert Ames to Speak Here on April 10-11
• Choose Sponsors - ROTC
• Plans Started for Alumni Breakfast
• Attended Normal – Cordell Hull
• Local Financier Speaks on State Money Situation – Max Nahm
• Teachers Speak at. Franklin
• ‘Spooks’ Wins Many Plaudits
• Dr. Henry Cherry attends National Education Meeting Recently
• Ruby Laffoon Speaks Here on Washington’s Birthday
• Davidson, Mary. Red-Headed Baby Marvels at Wonders of Kentucky Museum
• Spring Term to …