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

WKU Administration Documents

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

Table of Contents:

• Editorials
• Inspiration and Perspiration
• Opportunity
• The New Student
• Our Advertisers
• Subscriptions
• First Aid to the Injured
• Cartoon of Henry Cherry Driving Kentucky
• The Opening
• Alumni Association
• The Open-Air Plays
• Senior Class, 1912
• Junior Class, 1912
• Graduates of Elementary Class, June, 1912
• Elementary Class, July, 1912
• Music Class, 1912
• The Call
• The Double-Life Class
• Man's Majesty
• News
• Faculty Notes
• The Organization of Societies
• News About Normalites
• Athletics
• Pedestrians
• Exchanges
• Safety-Valve

Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 4, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Course catalog & newsletter:

• Courses of Study
• County Certificate Course
• Preparatory Course
• Rural Teachers’ Course
• Regular Normal Course
• School of Music
• McLean, Mattie. School News
• Condensed Information
• Expense – Tuition & Board
• Frisbie Hall

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

Table of Contents:

• First Aid to the Injured
• The Purpose of Industrial Education by Dora Barnes
• The Vision of Young Men by L.P. Jones
• News About Normalites
• Editor's Chat
• Chapel Songs
• Our New Editor
• Athletics
• This Issue
• Summer School
• Announcement by Lewis Matthews
• The Cave Trip by S.C. Summers
• Oratorical Contest
• Faculty Changes
• Book Notices
• Chapel Notes
• The Kit-Kat Social
• Athletics
• Kit-Kat, 1912

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

Table of Contents:

• A Soldier's Training at West Point
• Forty Years Ago
• The May Festival
• Some Seeds to Sow
• County Delegation News
• Seniors (New Ones)
• Editor's Chat
• Letter to the Editor by Paul Seay
• Notes, Et Cetera
• Letter to the Editor by George Page
• Honor Roll
• Where it Tickles
• Best Ideas of Books
• Jokes
• XchanG

Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 3, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Course catalog & newsletter:

• Summer School
• The New Normal Site
• Recitation Hall
• Cabell Hall
• The New Vanmeter Auditorium & Administration Building
• The Tired Teacher
• Courses Offered
• The Normal Training School
• English
• History
• Physical Sciences
• Physiology II
• Mathematics
• Drawing
• The Library
• The School of Domestic Science & Domestic Arts
• Nature Study & Elementary Agriculture
• Do You Need a Teacher?
• Physical Education
• Excursion from the Western Normal Summer School to the Kentucky Educational Association
• For High School Teachers
• Geography
• Special Announcement Summer School Western Normal
• Headquarters of Western Kentucky State Normal School at the Kentucky Educational Association
• Kindergarten Department
• Stewart, Cora. The …

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

Table of Contents:

• A Review of the Junior Class
• Athletics
• In After Years
• The Has and the Are
• Spring
• A Thought
• Spring
• The Golden Age
• Rhymes
• We Are Going to Have a Festival
• News and Other Things
• Editor's Chat
• The General Assembly of Kentucky
• Junior Society
• Jokes

Ua2 The State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 2, Wku Board Of Regents

WKU Administration Documents

Biennial report of the WKU Board of Regents includes reports of president Henry Cherry, McKenzie Todd, state inspector, budget, curriculum, alumni, national rankings, county superintendent reports and photographs of the school.

Ua3/1/3 Education & Politics Scrapbook, Wku President's Office - Cherry

WKU Administration Documents

Scrapbook regarding education & politics for 1911-1912 created by the WKU President's Office during Henry Cherry's tenure. Page numbers from original scrapbook and may not match pdf file.

• A Child's Value 139
• A Cure for Lawlessness, Elizabethtown News 89
• A 'Practical' Education 137
• Address & Resolutions to be Presented to State-Wide Rural School Conference, March 29, 1911 18
• All Round Efficiency 4
• Beckman, F.W. A Cry from Macedonia for Teachers of Agriculture . . . 58
• Behind the School 3
• Beveridge's Eloquent Plea for Cause of Humanity 145
• Campbell, James Jr. Commission Form of Government 85
• Child Labor a National …

Ua3/1/3 Education & Politics Scrapbook, Wku President's Office - Cherry

WKU Administration Documents

Education & Politics 1906-07; 1911-12 scrapbook created by WKU President's Office during Henry Cherry's tenure. Page numbers from original scrapbook and may not match pdf file.

• A Commoner's University, p. 28
• Aim and Object of Two State Normal Schools Set Forth, p. 1
• American History, p. 93
• Appeal for Funds, p. 99
• Approves Wealth Rightly Gotten, p. 81
• Arithmetic, p. 93
• Better Schools Must Come First, p. 39
• Big Reception is Voted Huge Success, p. 9
• Carmack, E.W. A Beautiful Tribute, p. 24
• Cherry, Henry. Untitled, p. 34
• Circular No. 5 re: Virginia schools, p. 66
• Compulsory Education, p. 5 …

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Minutes of WKU Board of Regents meeting.

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

WKU Administration Documents

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. 4, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

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

Ua25 Lease To Kentucky Board Of Health, Wku Finance & Administration

WKU Administration Documents

Contract between WKU and the Kentucky Board of Health to lease rooms in Recitation Hall for four years.

Contract, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Contract to rent third story right rear wing of Recitation Hall to the State Board of Health of Kentucky and a laboratory in the right front wing.

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

Table of Contents:

• Louisiana State University by James Knoll
• Valparaiso University by Frank Turner
• The Oratorical Contest by Hollie Finn
• The Ball Game
• Phantasies
• A Monologue by Mr. Byrn
• Book Review
• Ohio County by E.Y. Allen
• Illinois by Madge Hunter
• Livingston County by Jake Farris
• Eastern District by H.M. Guffey
• Simpson County by Leland Bunch
• Breckinridge County by James Basham
• Meade County by J.G. Board
• McCracken County by Margaret Acker
• Daviess County by G.C. Morris
• Bullitt County by Ina Foster …

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

WKU Administration Documents

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 Chosen People by Melvin Judd
• Some Harvard Impressions by A.M. Stickles
• Memoirs of an Old-Timer
• Retribution
• Chapel Influence by C.J. Bibb
• The Moot Court
• Editorials
• Lamentations
• Book Reviews
• Exchanges
• Weather Forecasts of the Faculty
• Notes from the Societies [Alumni News]
• Library Notice
• Modern Philosophy
• Near to Grins
• Normal Lights

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Administration Documents

Minutes of WKU faculty weekly meetings for 1910 from Books 1 and 2. The books have slight variations. See also Book 1 Index.

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

Table of Contents:

• Child Labor by Joseph Roemer
• As to the Library
• Plan of the Campus by Henry Wright
• Generally Speaking
• Fall Term
• The Acts of the Athletic Disciples
• Review of Late Books
• Side Issues
• Personals

Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. Iii, No. 3, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Course catalog & newsletter:

• The Summer School Begins June 15, 1909
• To the Trustees of Western Kentucky
• McLean, Mattie. School News
• Program – Third Educational Conference & Convocation of County & City Superintendents of Western Kentucky State Normal School
• Texts Used in the Normal
• Expenses – Tuition & Board
• Frisbie Hall
• Western Kentucky State Normal School
• Faculty
• Regents
• Commencement Exercises

Ua98/1 Green & Gold, Vol. Vii, No. 2, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by and about the students of Potter College. The Green & Gold contains articles, short stories, poetry and news regarding events of the college, students and alumni.

• Baker, Louise. Dear Old Potter ‘Way Up on the Hill
• Givens, Kathryn. Won’t You? Will You? You Are
• Twashtri – A Tale of India
• Bartered Birthrights
• Mitchell, Katherine. Mumps! Mumps! Mumps!
• Rosser, Elma. Fate’s Sister
• Mitchell, Katherine. Luigi Cornaro
• Rats
• A Day in January
• Editorial
• Sigma Iota Chi
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Eta Upsilon Gamma
• Phi Mu Gamma
• Lewis, Lena. Ossolian Society
• Sleadd, Gertrude. Hypatian Society
• Rosser, Elma. Entertainment
• Keith, Katherine. YWCA …

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Administration Documents

Minutes of WKU faculty weekly meetings for 1909 from Books 1 and 2. The books have slight variations. See also Book 1 Index.

Adairville Training School [Catalog], 1909-1910 (Mss 701), Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

Catalog for the Adairville Training School, Adairville, Kentucky, 1909-1910.

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

Board of Regents Documents

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

• History of School
• Synopsis of Normal School Law
• The Locating Commission
• Counties of the Western District
• Free Tuition
• Bowling Green
• Organization of the Board of Regents
• Bowling Green’s Proposition
• Policy of the Normal School
• Faculty
• State Superintendent James Fuqua
• County Superintendents of West Kentucky
• The Press
• Citizens of Kentucky
• Southern Normal School
• Purpose of the Normal School
• Kinnaman, A.J. Dean’s Report

Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 1, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

News magazine and catalog:

• Graphic Representation of the Influence of WKSNS
• The Summer School
• Cherry, Henry. To Our Former Students
• The First Life Certificate Graduate – Flora Stallard
• Life Certificate Graduates Western Kentucky State Normal School – Class of 1908
• Crabb, Alfred. The Cave Trip
• Faculty
• Graduates Scientific Class Southern Normal School Regents
• Frisbie Hall
• Calendar 1908-1909
• Bowling Green
• General Information
• Expenses – Board & Tuition
• Lyceum Course