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Historical Documents of Bryant University (1863-present)

Bulletin urging prospective male and female students to enroll in business and clerical programs at Bryant & Stratton, particularly those who are not going to fight in World War I but could still use their clerical skills to help the government.

"The government needs the services of 100,000 young men and young women... ACT PROMPTLY, as the government needs the help of every efficient stenographer and clerk it can secure."

Viewbook, Hollins College

Viewbooks

1917 Viewbook

1917 Faculty Meeting Minutes, Morehead Normal School

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty meeting minutes of the Morehead Normal School for 1917.

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. X, No. 1, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

1916 Faculty Meeting Minutes, Morehead Normal School

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty meeting minutes of the Morehead Normal School for 1916.

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. Ix, No. 1, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

Ua99/9 Bowling Green Business University, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Administration Documents

Recruitment booklet by the Bowling Green Business University.

1915 Faculty Meeting Minutes, Morehead Normal School

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty meeting minutes of the Morehead Normal School for 1915.

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. Viii, No. 1, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

1914 Faculty Meeting Minutes, Morehead Normal School

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty meeting minutes of the Morehead Normal School for 1914.

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. Vii, No. 1, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

1913 Faculty Meeting Minutes, Morehead Normal School

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty meeting minutes of the Morehead Normal School for 1913.

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

Board of Regents Documents

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

• Condition of school
• Finances
• Attendance
• Enrollment & Distribution of Students
• Religious Affiliation of Students
• Courses of Study
• Fred Mutchler’s Report on Boys’ Corn Clubs
• Domestic Science & Arts
• Other Courses
• School of Music
• Summer School
• Conference of County Superintendents
• Graduates
• Elementary Certificate
• Class of 1912
• Advanced or Life Certificate
• Former Graduates of the Advanced or Life Certificate Course
• Faculty & Salaries
• Violin Teacher
• Recitation Hall
• Sanitary & Toilet Arrangement for the Training School
• Frisbie Hall
• Rural Training School
• Improvement of Grounds, Drives, Walks, Etc.
• Culinary Department
• Acoustic Properties of …

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. Vi, No. 1, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

• Typewriter Expert at University Writes 119 Words in a Minute – J.L. Hoyt
• Mr. O.M. Hinton
• $225 a Month
• Strollers Quartet at Bowling Green Business University
• Still Succeeding
• $1500 a year
• Stenotypy
• Seven Operators Go to Positions in One Day
• Commencement
• Tuition Rates
• Mammoth Cave
• The New Catalog
• Special Penmanship
• A Beautiful Act – Alice Whobrey
• What They Say
• An Interesting Contest
• The Annual Debate – Corecos, The Big Four
• The Land of the Midnight Sun
• Continental …

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

Ua11/1 On Normal Heights, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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.

Ua37/42 Commercial Teachers Training School, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Administration Documents

Promotional pamphlet advertising the commercial teachers training school, summer 1912.

1912 Faculty Meeting Minutes, Morehead Normal School

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty meeting minutes of the Morehead Normal School for 1912.

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. V, No. 1, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

• Next Place
• The Big Fired and the Bowling Green Business University
• If and If
• The Time Was
• An Investment
• Professor L.T. Dickey
• Seibert’s Band at BGBU Chapel
• Booming Big Institution
• Kentucky Defined
• No Cut Rates
• Fifteen Hundred Boarders
• Our Competitors
• To the Ambitious
• May or May Not
• What Advancement?
• Outings, Recreation & Rent
• Topmiller Orchestra at Chapel
• Wonderful Speed
• A Good Name
• All Lost!
• Typewriting
• How a Teacher May Double His Salary
• Is It Fair?
• Champion Typewriter …

1911 Faculty Meeting Minutes, Morehead Normal School

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty meeting minutes of the Morehead Normal School for 1911.

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. Iv, No. 1, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

• Old Students
• Qualifications & Qualities
• Does It Pay?
• Accomplishment or Asset?
• Commencement – Class of 1910 (BGBU)
• City Officials Welcome Students
• Kodak Contest
• Our Competitors
• Lyceum Course
• Reading Room
• Over 1,500 Boarders
• Here is the Reason
• Repairs & Betterment
• Can I Get a Position?
• Let’s Suppose a Case
• The Trade-Mark
• To Serve is to Bless
• Eliminate the Parasite
• Inspiring Records of Successful Young People
• Banking
• The Gulf States Excursion
• Five Governors
• Commerce Course
• An Open Door
• Certain …

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence - Davis, Brinton, Wku President's Office - Cherry

WKU Administration Documents

Correspondence between Henry Cherry and architect Brinton Davis regarding the construction of Van Meter Hall.

1910 Faculty Meeting Minutes, Morehead Normal School

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty meeting minutes of the Morehead Normal School for 1910.

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

Board of Regents Documents

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

• Condition of school
• Attendance
• Purpose of the Normal
• Financial statements
• Regular tuition
• Boarding homes
• Courses of study
• Model school
• Library
• School of Music
• School of Science
• Model rural school
• Summer school
• Faculty & salaries
• General statements of a miscellaneous nature

Ua99/9 Southern Exponent Of Business Education, Vol. Iii, No. 1, Bowling Green Business University

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the Bowling Green Business University to promote the school. Includes descriptions of courses, lists of students and alumni and photographs.

• Remarkable Business Outlook
• Can I Get a Position?
• The Illustrated Catalog
• Prosperity Coming
• Self Supporting
• Good Times Are Again in Sight
• Civil Service
• Qualification Required
• How to Get Appointment
• Salaries
• A Thousand Successful Old Students
• A Report to Congress
• A Prominent Railroad Official
• A Fact is a Fact
• Station Work
• Will Take Students
• The Crow & the Spurs
• Better Than Gold
• Gratifying & Cheering
• Academic Course
• A Recognition
• Banking
• The Commerce Course
• Outline of Commerce Course
• The …

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

Board of Regents Documents

President's Report with statement of the condition of the school and financial statement.

Ua98 1909 Talisman, Potter College For Young Ladies

WKU Administration Documents

1909 Talisman yearbook produced by the Potter College for Young Ladies.

• Faculty
• Talisman Staff
• Brief History of Potter College
• Teachers & Officers
• Departments
• Class of 1909
• Senior Class History
• Falter, Elizabeth. Incarnation
• Ballard, Trudie. WIll of Class of 1909
• Junior Class
• Hogin, Inamay. Junior Class History
• Sophomore Class
• Keith, Katherine. Nineteen Hundred & Eleven
• Freshman Class
• Mitchell, Katherine. Freshman Class History
• Specials & Irregulars
• Beta Sigma Omicron
• Sigma Iota Chi
• Eta Upsilon Gamma
• Phi Mu Gamma
• Cabell, Benjamin. Compensation
• Young Women's Christian Association
• Hypatian Literary Society
• Ossolian Society
• Green & Gold Staff
• Tennis Club
• Basketball
• Bowling Club
• Departments
• To the …

1909 Faculty Meeting Minutes, Morehead Normal School

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty meeting minutes of the Morehead Normal School for 1909.

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 J.G. Crabbe regarding finances.