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An Ode To The Imperfections, Alexandra P. Schaffer

Undergraduate Distinction Papers

I first became fascinated with the personal essay when I read Tina Fey’s autobiography, Bossypants. I become so immersed in her writing because of how much I related to it. Like me, Fey is of Greek and German descent. Little details like this resonated with me along with a number of other characteristics we both shared, such as our shared love for self-deprecating humor. I fell in love with her stories, because although they were specific to her, they still connected to my own life. Her essays made me feel something, and they also helped me realize that I …

Finding Aid To The Collection Of James Brendan Connolly Materials, James Brendan Connolly, Colby College Special Collections

Finding Aids

The Connolly Collection contains the writings and personal library of James Brendan Connolly (1868-1957). The collection includes Connolly's reminiscences, newspaper articles, and galley and page proofs as well as scrapbook clippings. There are also notebooks containing holograph notes on schooners and the navy, letters from Connolly's personal correspondence, and books from Connolly's personal library. James Brendan Connolly (1868-1957) was an Irish-American author of sea-related stories, novels, and nonfiction such as The Book of the Gloucester Fishermen. Born in South Boston, he attended Harvard and was a medal-winning athlete in the first modern Olympics, held in Athens in 1896. He …

Ua1a University Archives Reference Books, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Reference books, non-WKU publications and recordings related to the history of Western Kentucky University and its founding institutions. Some of these items are available in the Harrison-Baird Reading Room.

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

WKU Archives Records

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Campus Copy
• Class News
• Club News
• Hill Topics
• Personals
• Society
• Sport-Shots

This issue contains articles:

• Middle Tennessee Favored to Win Over Hilltoppers
• Reid Sterrett Gets Cast for New Melodrama
• Arndt Stickles Speaks at Maysville
• Class Officers Are Elected
• Lady Luck Plays Star Role in Xavier Triumph
• County Pupils to See Game
• Tennis Hopes Soar as Veterans Report for Fall Practice
• Social Study Council to Meet on Hill
• Plans Made for Big Homecoming
• Robert Francis Joins Faculty at University of Wisconsin
• Tennessee Polytechnic Institute …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. X, No. 9, 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
• Exchange Tidbits
• Personals
• Society
• Trype

This issue contains articles:

• Most Popular Students Are to Be Chosen
• Players’ Guild Is to Present “Under Cover”
• Men’s Quartette Sings at Chapel
• Dr. Gordon Wilson Speaks at Dixon Woman’s Club
• Herald Features Linoleum Cuts
• Valuable Gifts Are Presented to Kentucky Museum
• Social Is Held at Christian Church
• He Has Seen the World—and Photographed It Too – Raymond Hornback
• New Teachers Are Employed for Semester
• Six Western Athletes Coach in Ohio County
• Faculty Hosts at …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. X, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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 Notes
• Trype

This issue contains articles:

• Roosevelt Ball Will Be Held on Tuesday Night
• Seniors Present Assembly Program
• Walter Hines, Famous Ogden Alumnus, Dies
• “Under Cover” to Be Given by Olayers’ Guild
• Eighteen Members for Men’s Glee Club Chosen
• Library Unit of CWA Project Is Begun on Hill – Civil Works Administration
• Thermostats Are Placed in Three Buildings Here – Gordon Wilson Hall, Snell Hall, Van Meter Hall
• College Heights Publication Is …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. X, No. 7, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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:

• Western Host to Conference on January 7-9 – Adult Education
• Hilltop Students attend Sessions of Baptist Group – Baptist Young Peoples Union
• Ogden Grads Hold Meeting December 26
• Dr. Henry Cherry Receives Mammoth Greeting from Entire School
• Sings Carols
• Receives Appointment – Lindsay Allen
• Schultz, Raymond. Flash: “Teachers Are Human” Says Schultz
• Annual Census of Birds Taken
• English Club Hears Nashville Poetess – Mrs. Armstrong Allen …

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

WKU Archives Records

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 …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. X, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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:

• Talisman Contract Is Let to Nashville Publishing Company
• President Henry Cherry Gives Addresses Education Week
• Dr. Earl Moore Is Speaker
• Teachers to Attend Meeting
• Mrs. Mary Leiper Is Chosen to Head State Librarians
• Northern Kentucky Alumni Have Meet
• Commission Issues Report – Kentucky Educational Commission
• Dramatic Club to Give ‘Kempy’ on December 8
• Kitchen Force Has Picnic
• Classes Train for Mighty Turkey Day Grid Battle
• Dr. …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. X, No. 4, 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
• Personals
• Society
• Training School News
• Trype

This issue contains articles:

• Staff Heads for Talisman Are Selected
• Girls’ Volley Ball Contests Continue
• Kiwanis Club Is Sponsoring Awards
• Track Lettermen Meet
• Kentucky Education Association Plans to Hold Contest
• Martha Bass Accepts Position
• Library Receives 400 Bethel College Books
• Mrs. Roy Holland, Former Student, Dies Here Oct. 30
• Miss Clara Elledge Is Honored
• A. A. Page Is Chosen to Head County Presidents
• Baptist Student Union Convention Held at Louisville
• Regional Meeting of Relations …

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

WKU Archives Records

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

WKU Archives Records

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 …

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 …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Ix, No. 14, 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
• 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 …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Vi, No. 7, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Bottle Column by Ink
• Chapel
• Class News
• Club News
• Editorials
• High Spots of Chapel by Joe Lafferty
• Personals
• Philosophizing Collegian by Ims
• Training School Notes
• Ups & Downs by Kelly Thompson
• Western Sophomore Writes Home

This issue contains articles:

• Louisville to be Hostess to KEA
• New Course is Offered at Western – Public Problems
• Ward Sumpter Honored at Yale
• President is Honored with Alumni Gift – Henry Cherry
• James Elam Signed as Coach of Hilltoppers
• Instructors’ Theses Given Endorsement
• Wellington Hines Awarded Honors …

The Purple, July 1897

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Commencement Week
• Pity
• Visit of the Very Rev. Edward I. Purbrick, S.J.
• Ignatius the Soldier
• The Genius of the Middle Ages
• The Love of a Father
• The College Graduate the Future Statesman
• Religion the Corner-stone of Government
• Augustine at Milan
• A Liberal Education and Society
• Out of a Dream
• Edward the Confessor
• Dr. Conaty a Monsignor
• For the Best
• Brother Michael Hogan, S.J.
• A Word on Georgetown's Graduate School
• After the Storm-A Fantasy
• Editorials
• The Alumni
• The …

The Purple, June 1897

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• June Roses
• Recollections of Holy Cross at the Season of the End of the War between North and South
• Fair Land and Free
• Some Leaves from Irish History
• Activity
• Why?
• To Dante in Exile
• Journalism
• On a Falling Star
• A Plea for an Alumni Day
• Necessity of Parental Co-Operation for the Success of the Teacher
• Mozart's Dream
• A Few Reminiscences of Holy Cross a Generation Ago
• Two Consuls
• Debating Societies and Their Utility
• The Oriole
• Holy Cross …

The Purple, [December 1896]

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• A Holy Cross Alumnus Rector of the Catholic University
• The Art of Poetry--A Definition
• A Thought for the "Coming-Time"
• St. Francis Xavier and a Modern Scientist
• A Few Pastels
• The "Coming-Time in Song
• Cardinal Newman and Anglican Orders
• The Winter's Breath
• The Reverend Peter J. Blenkinsop, S.J.
• Rhetoricians' Night
• A Golden Jubilee
• The Alumni
• The College Chronicle
• Athletics

The Purple, November 1896

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• First Steps in the Study of the Classics
• William Morris
• William Morris (poem)
• Letters to Dead Authors
• The Ending of a Polish Youth
• On a Queer Prejudice
• A Priest's Mother
• His Wages
• A November Day
• Students and Reading
• The Glee Club and Orchestra
• Bishop Beaven
• "And in the Fourth Watch of the Night, He Came to Them Walking Upon the Sea"
• The Alumni
• The College Chronicle
• Athletics
• From the Editor's Table

The Purple, October 1896

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• The Reverend Edward A. McGurk, S.J.
• Meditations of Menippus the Cynic
• Language, A Criterion of Knowledge
• To a Dead Butterfly
• The Centenary of Robert Burns
• The Watchers of Folly
• What Oxford Owes to Catholicity
• My Home
• Sam's Success
• The Fisherman
• On Being Perpetually Misunderstood
• Our Literary Confidences
• The Noble Work of Catholic Laymen
• The Anniversary of Bishop Fenwick's Death
• The Conventions of Catholic College Editors
• A Letter from Admiral Meade
• The Alumni
• The College Chronicle
• Athletics
• From …

The Purple, July 1896

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Commencement Day
• Governor Wolcott's Address
• If I Could Know
• The Cardinal's Visit
• Prince of the Church
• The Prince of the Faith
• Nell
• The Highest Type of Good Citien
• Home and Mother
• Catholic Leper Missions
• A Reverie
• That Unseen Phase
• The Meeting of College Editors at the Summer School
• Athletics
• From the Editor's Table