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Ua11/1 On Normal Heights, Wku Public Affairs

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Promotional picture booklet of Western Kentucky University which includes images of the major buildings, students working on campus, faculty, Mammoth Cave, Barren River and student body.

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

• Should Public Money be Given to the Churches to Educate Their Children? by O.T. Shemwell
• The Challenge of the Young Men by Arthur Guiterman
• Each in His Own Tongue by William Caruth
• Resolutions
• New Year
• Complaints
• Student Leadership
• Darkness
• The New Bulletin
• Grit
• Alumni
• News
• Letter to the Editor by Dora Barnes
• What's the Matter with the World?
• How to Make Shoes
• Honor Roll
• Oratorical Contest
• Jokes
• Badly Needed
• XchanG by S.C. Summers
• Reported by Chas. Taylor …

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Iii, No. 2, 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:

• 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

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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

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

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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:

• 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

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

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

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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

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. Ii, No. 9, 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:

• 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

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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:

• 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

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
• 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

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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:

• 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

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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:

• 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

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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

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 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

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

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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.

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

• 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

Ua3/1/2/1 Letter Nettie Depp To Henry Cherry, Nettie Depp

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Letter written to Henry Cherry by Nettie Depp from Scottsville, Kentucky, Dec. 11, 1910. Transcript:

Pres. H.H. Cherry, Bowling Green, Ky.

My dear Mr. Cherry;

As a matter of course I am egotistical enough to think that you would like to hear from me occasionally.

School here is progressing nicely though the school board is financially embarressed [sic] at present. You know they began the school with only a twenty cent tax and now they begin to realize that they will have to do something in order to meet the growing demands of the school.

They have called a meeting …

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

• The Memory of the Violets by Della Langston
• Christmas Thoughts
• Christmas Greetings by Nellie Smith
• Our Santas cartoon
• Leiper's Christmas cartoon
• About the Normal
• The Colonel is My Teacher by Blanche Vanmeter
• Ars Dicendi
• The Christmas Elevator
• A Change of Printers
• The Short Story
• Our Story
• Ode to L. of E. by Alfred Crabb
• The Teacher's Work by L.F. Carwile
• Glad Tidings
• First District Association
• Exchanges

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

• Governor [Edwin] Norris
• Commencement Week by Gordon Wilson
• A Library Note
• Class of 1910 photograph
• The Opening
• Training School Department
• The School of Expression
• The Normal Farm
• The School of Music
• The First Recital
• Faculty Notes
• Editorials
• Normal News

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

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

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

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Course catalog & newsletter:

• Cherry, Henry. Letter to Reader
• Course of Study
• Life Certificate Class, 1910
• Cherry, Henry. Educational Greeting from the Western Kentucky State Normal School
• The Summer School
• The Elevator
• Course in Agriculture
• Professor Franz Strahm

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. I, No. 8, 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:

• Valedictory by Nancy Shehan
• Clark by E.H. White
• The Crying Need of the Public School System by E.H. Turner
• Married at Gallatin
• The Sophomores
• The Juniors
• The Seniors
• Senior Class 1910-11
• Echoes from Mammoth Cave by Hunter Gingles and Katesie Bailey
• Normal Lights
• Editorials
• The University of Wisconsin by Will Taylor
• Two Ways of Telling a Story
• Foreword by G.C. Morris
• Moving Day Cartoon
• The Trip to Richmond
• The KEA
• De Pilae Quodam Ludo by Henry Wesley …

Ua45/6 Commencement Concert, Wku Registrar

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

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence - Eastern Kentucky University, Wku President's Office

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Documents housed in Box 1 Folder 7 of President Henry Cherry’s Correspondence, General File regarding the relationship between WKU and Eastern Kentucky University. This file is comprised entirely of letters, the majority from EKU’s president Ruric Roark.

• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 1/25/1907 – congratulations on creation of WKU, questions about curriculum and faculty
• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 6/3/1907 – Kentucky Education Association resolution re: diplomas
• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 6/7/1907 – appropriations for EKU
• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 6/24/1907 – curriculum and faculty
• Roark, Ruric N. to Henry Cherry 7/25/1907 – diplomas …

Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 4, No. 3, Wku Registrar

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Course catalog & newsletter:

• Courses of Study
• Western Kentucky State Normal School
• Cherry, Henry. An Educational Creed
• The Alumni Association
• Reduced Railroad Rates for Summer School
• Cherry, Henry. Editorial
• Dr. Len G. Broughton
• Faculty
• Regents
• Commencement Exercises

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

• The Other Side by C.M. Sammons
• A Woodland Playground by S.C. Coots
• Extracts from Recent Finals by J.B. Johns
• The Negro Question by G.C. Morris
• Christmas Sentiment
• My Impressions of Yale by H.M. Denton
• Welcome (To the New Students) by Nancy Shehan
• Editorials
• A Tragic Tragedy, Entitled "The Breaking of the Golden Bowl"
• At Which to Grin
• Exchanges
• Personals

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

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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. 3, 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:

• The Sacrifice of the Teacher by F.E. Cooper
• Epitaphy
• Scientific Class, 1908-1909
• The University of Chicago
• Life Class 1908-1909
• Thanksgiving by Loraine Cole
• To the Rhetoric Class
• Editorials
• The Life Class by Ruth Alexander
• The American Farmer by E.E. Gardner
• Results
• The American Public School by Eugene Wood
• James Lane Allen by Mary Jarboe
• Book Review
• Exchanges
• Personals

Ua1b3/7 Oratorical League Committee, Wku Faculty

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Correspondence regarding proposed constitution of the Central Oratorical League consisting of Indiana State University, Eastern Kentucky University and Ohio University. William Craig was appointed a committee of one to study the viability of WKU's participation. Includes program for oratorical contest held May 27, 1910 in Van Meter Hall.