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Ua66/1/2 Scrapbook, Wku Ogden College Of Science & Engineering

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Scrapbook of clippings, press releases, photographs and other items related to the history of Ogden College of Science & Technology from 1961 to 1974.

Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 42, No. 6, Wku Alumni Association

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Alumni magazine published by WKU. This issue has the following articles:

• Wood, Willson. He Did Not Teach Art - He Taught People - Ivan Wilson
• Dixon, Frances. Russell Miller - Benevolent Despot of Western Theatre
• The Ivan Wilson Center for Fine Arts
• Conway, Sheila. For New Center . . . A Fine Arts Send-Off - Ivan Wilson Hall
• Hackney, Karen & Richard Hackney. Soaring in '77: Satellite Research
• Branham, Judy. Homecoming 1973
• Conway, Sheila. Music, By Gemini! - Gemini 15
• Given, Ed. For More Than A-Mews-ment - Marvin Mews
• Dunn, Thomas. WKU Professors Complete International TV Research
• Remember 1966-67
• Pomp, …

Ua3/3/1 Comments On Activities At The Western Kentucky State College Farm, Billy Adams

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Report regarding use of WKU Farm in instruction with list of recommendations for improving the farm and its operation.

Ua3/3/1 Comments On Activities At The Western Kentucky State College Farm, Randolph Richards

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WKU Farm report emphasizing ongoing research projects, crops and livestock yields and physical facilities.

50 Years Of Research At The North Platte Experiment Station, W. W. Burr, J. C. Adams

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

The North Platte Experiment was established fifty years ago. So many changes have occurred since then that few people remember why research in dry land agriculture was started in Nebraska and other Great Plains states. In order to get a proper perspective, it may be well to consider some early history.

Fifty Years Of Achievement In Agricultural Investigation, R. T. Prescott

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

In Nebraska, a hustling frontier state in 1887, the legislature hesitated not at all in taking advantage of the provisions of the Hatch Act, and now that fifty years have elapsed since the Station was founded, seventy-five years since the Land Grant College Act was passed and the U. S. Department of Agriculture established, and almost twenty-five years since the Agricultural Extension Service was added, it seems worth while to present a general summary of achievement within the state. The main object will be to show some of the important things that have been learned through the investigations of the …

A Brief Sketch Of The Life And Work Of Charles Edwin Bessey, Raymond J. Pool

Papers in Systematics & Biological Diversity

Charles Edwin Bessey, professor of botany and head of the department of botany in the University of Nebraska since 1884 and a conspicuous figure in American science and education, passed away at his home in Lincoln on February 25, 1915, after a critical illness of four weeks.

The Bessey family is of French extraction, the original form of the name being Besse. The tradition is that the early members of the family, who were Huguenots, were compelled on account of religious persecution to flee to England from the old home near Strassburg in Alsace. This exodus occurred in the latter …