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

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

Table of Contents:

• Thanksgiving
• Four Years Ago
• Bluff
• Alumni Number
• Concerning
• Hallowe'en
• News
• Oratorio and Lyceum Course
• Good Roads' Day
• From Two P.M. Till Seven
• Thanksgiving
• We Thank Thee
• Some Hill Happenings Under the Moon
• Exchange
• Training School by Miss Birdsong
• An Awakening in Kentucky by John Nichol
• Book Notices
• Grins

Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 7, No. 4, Wku Registrar

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Promotional booklet written by Mattie McLean relating news of WKU, faculty, staff, students, alumni, sports and curriculum.

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

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

Table of Contents:

• Concerning
• The Opening
• The Faculty's Vacation
• Cain's Diary
• News
• Hurlbut Cain obituary
• Letter to the Editor by H.H. Johnston
• Editorials
• Yes
• No Idlers
• the Faithful Seeker
• A Wish and Prayer by W.C. Wilson
• Seniors
• Juniors
• Kit-Kats
• Chapel Echoes
• Dan Cupid
• Which One?
• Athletics
• Grins

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Iv, 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:

• The Editor's Thoughts
• Be Hopeful
• The Booster; The Knocker
• From the Graduate's Viewpoint
• Commencement
• The Raising of the Stars and Stripes
• 1913 Alumni Association
• News
• Seigle Ford, obituary
• Mammoth Cave Party
• The Oratorical Contest
• The Reason We Go to the WKSN
• A Comparison
• Vacation
• Eyes That See by J.W. Vance
• Corn Club Work
• Book Notice
• Chapel Notes
• Passing the Cayenne

Ua45/6 Commencement Concert, Wku Registrar

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Commencement concert program and graduation program listing music certificate / diploma recipients.

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Iv, 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:

• The Editor's Thoughts
• Concerning
• Lyceum Course
• Miss Wilmer
• Athletics
• News
• What One Dollar Did at Seven Hills
• Henderson County
• The Twa Dogs
• The Boat Excursion
• The Hall of Fame
• Annual Inter-Society Oratorical Contest
• Looking After the Chap
• A Man's Prayer
• The Soul
• Library Notes
• Book Review
• Domestic Science and Arts
• Exchanges
• Passing the Cayenne

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Iv, 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:

• The Editor's Thoughts
• Spring
• Selfishness
• Conversation
• Concerning
• Athletics
• From Our Letter Box
• News
• LaRue County by Lizzie Shaw
• Webster County
• Nelson County
• Monroe County
• Butler County
• The Moot House
• Stranded!
• The Faith of a Fool
• A Chapel Speech
• The Alphabetical Staff
• Normalettes
• Book Notices
• Exchanges
• Passing the Cayenne
• Chapel Notes

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Iv, 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:

• Editorials
• Green and Gold
• Chapel Echoes
• Little Things
• Work!
• Commencement
• Historic Bowling Green
• Red Letter Days
• Moot House of Representatives
• Nature's Trend
• Class Roll
• The Western Kentucky State Normal A Telegraph System
• Athletics
• The Crooked Pin
• The Dignity of Labor
• Outline for a Conglomerated Theme
• German Play
• YMCA Social
• Chapel Echoes
• Exchanges
• Sen-Yor Ointment
• Information Bureau
• Jokes
• Ten Commandments for Seniors

Ua45/1/1/ The State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 7, No. 3, Wku Registrar

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Promotional document for summer school, includes articles:

• A Word to School Trustees & to All of Those Who Employ or Recommend the Employment of Teachers
• Summer School
• The Tired Teacher
• Commencement Exercises Western Normal
• Convocation of County Superintendents
• Notes on Summer School
• Music Festival
• Do You Need a Teacher?

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Iv, 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 Editor's Thoughts
• Culture
• Is It Worth While?
• Our Part in the Play
• Concerning
• Valentine Reception by Ruth Eubank
• A School Faculty
• Influence of Adversity
• Junior Oratory
• Normalettes
• On the Twenty-second by Elizabeth Green
• Modern Arabian Nights
• The Dream-Chaser by Lottie M'Clure
• News
• Muhlenberg County by Gordie Young
• Graves County by Lexie Galloway
• Trigg County
• Hickman County by Edna Caldwell
• Union County by L.M. Sheffer
• Information Bureau
• The Teacher a Part of the Community
• Book Notices
• Chapel …

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Iv, 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:

• Editorials
• Capt. C.J. Vanmeter
• To the New Student
• Some Ways of Wasting Time
• Concerning
• As Ithers See Us
• The Builders by Bessie Edwards
• The Reason Why by Nellie Van Cleave, B. Vincent and Wallace Beard
• The Adventures of a Kit-Kat by Lucy Booth
• Normalites
• News
• Calloway County
• Adair County by G.W. Turner
• The Domestic Science Department
• The Opening of the New Term by Roy Mitchell
• Athletics
• Art Donations by Clyde Mitchell
• Chapel Echoes
• Exchanges
• Information Bureau

Ua45/1/1 The State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 7, No. 2, Wku Registrar

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WKU catalog of courses for summer and fall 1913. Includes many photographs of events on campus along with campus news.

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Iv, No. 3, 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:

• Editor's Thoughts
• Our Ideal
• Books
• Originality
• Life
• To Subscribers
• The Law of a Good Normalite
• Concerning
• News
• Russell County by J.B. Walters
• Monroe County by E.C. Palmore
• Daviess County by ? Pruden
• The Basketball Party
• Information Bureau
• The Senior Class
• The Juniors
• Kit-Kat Society
• Guilty or Not Guilty by H.M. Yarbrough
• The Public Schools
• The Longest Words
• The Inconsistencies of the Wise
• Caterpillar
• Exchanges
• Book Reviews
• Chapel Notes
• Passing the Cayenne

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

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Minutes of WKU faculty meetings for 1913 from Books 1 and 2. The books have slight variations. See also Book 1 Index.

Ua1b3/5 A Greater Kentucky, Henry Cherry

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Speech delivered by Henry Cherry regarding the Declaration of Principles and Aims adopted by the Kentucky Educational Association. This address was delivered at the Warren County Farmers' Chautauqua held at Mt. Pleasant in 1913.

Ua45/2 Student Register 1912-1913 Index, Wku Registrar

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Index to WKU Registrar’s Student Register 1912-1913. The book records the following information:

• Date
• Student name
• Number
• Post Office
• County
• Appointee from
• State
• Enrollment I/S
• Days Taught
• Vaccinated
• Tuition & Fees Paid
• Number of Terms Enrolled
• Remarks

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

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Course catalog & newsletter:

• The Pictorial Compendium of the Western Kentucky State Normal School
• Special to Former Students
• The Second Term, November 19, 1912
• The Mid-Winter Term, January 28, 1913
• The Fourth Term
• The Summer School of 1913
• Condensed News & Information
• Department of Music
• Expense – Tuition, Board
• Frisbie Hall
• Athletics in the Western Normal
• Two-Year Regular Normal Course

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

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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

Ua45/6 Commencement Concert, Wku Registrar

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Commencement concert program and graduation program listing music certificate / diploma recipients.

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

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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. 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:

• History of the Kit-Kat Club by R.M. Iglehart
• Greater Kentucky by E.B. Baker
• The Goddess of Beauty
• What Will Make the World Happy? by J.S. Brown
• The Death of Ah Ching by W.C. Wilson
• Editor's Chat
• Appropriation
• Loyalty
• Weak-Kneed
• Measles
• Athletics
• Chapel Notes
• Kit-Kat Yell
• Kit-Kat Song
• Kit Kats
• Jokes

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

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

Table of Contents:

• Boyhood
• Cullings
• Charm of the Woods
• Book Reviews
• Editor's Chat
• Cupid and Spring
• Plans
• News and Other Things
• Letter to the Editor by Jennie Etter

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

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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.

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

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

Table of Contents:

• Is There for Honest Poverty by Robert Burns
• The Seven Ages of Man
• In Whom Men Condemn
• The Biennial Report
• To Our President
• To the New Student
• Luck
• The Hero
• Finis
• Evening-Tide
• Jokes
• Wooing the Muse
• The Lyceum Course
• The Opening
• A Poem
• Seniors
• The Kit-Kat Social
• Athletics

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

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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 …

Ua1a Capt. C.J. Vanmeter, Times-Journal & Warren County Courier

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Biographical sketch and image of Capt. Charles Joseph Vanmeter, benefactor of the Southern Normal School.

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

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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 …

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence - Van Meter Auditorium, Wku President's Office - Cherry

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Correspondence of Henry Cherry with a variety of contractors regarding the construction of Van Meter Hall. Also includes information regarding the dedication and general reception when the building opened.

• American Seating Company
• Jake Bornstein
• C.E. Morris
• Superior Seating Company
• R.W. Koch
• Andrews Company
• Brinton Davis
• A.J. Anderson & Company
• Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
• S. Keighley Metal Ceiling & Manufacturing Company
• Dow Wire & Iron Works
• First National Bank of Louisville
• Bowling Green Machine Company