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A Study Of Child Nature: From The Kindergarten Standpoint, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

Preface

These talks for mothers and teachers were given before my classes in Chicago and elsewhere. They are now published at the earnest request of the members of those classes, and are in nearly the same form as when given, which accounts for the number of anecdotes illustrating different points, as well as for the frequency of personal reminiscence. Fully aware of their many defects, but knowing well that "Charity covereth a multitude of sins," I give them with a loving heart to the mothers of America. I hop that the thought underlying them may be as helpful to others …

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1924-1925, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1924-1925 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, its affiliated branches' purpose and locations, department descriptions, courses of study, course descriptions, biographical information about and images of faculty, and tuition information.

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1923-1924, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1923-1924 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, its affiliated branches' purpose and locations, department descriptions, courses of study, course descriptions, biographical information about and images of faculty, and tuition information.

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence, Henry Cherry, Lalla Boone

WKU Administration Documents

Correspondence between Lalla Boone and Henry Cherry regarding her returning to work at WKU, enrollment, appropriations and the $100 she donated to start the College Heights Foundation.

Transcript of her letter:

2054 Webster St., Oakland, California, June 30, 1922

Dear Mr. Cherry,

I have feared you had forgotten me until to-day, when I received the invitation to commencement. I had received other invitations to that event; but your invitation gave me courage. Courage I needed. I have been wanting to tell you for a long while now that I want to come back. If you ever expected to get rid …

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1922-1923, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1922-1923 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, its affiliated branches' purpose and locations, department descriptions, courses of study, course descriptions, biographical information about and images of faculty, and tuition information.

The Unseen Side Of Child Life: For The Guardians Of Young Children, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

Table of Contents

Introduction

Processional

Visitors Form the Outside World

Mastering the Machine

The Invisible Bridge

The Child's Art World

Recessional

Present Day Tendencies

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1921-1922, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1921-1922 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, its affiliated branches' purpose and locations, department descriptions, courses of study, course descriptions, biographical information about and images of faculty, and tuition information.

Ua100/2/1 Student Teacher Evaluations, Book 2, Part 1, Wku Training School

WKU Administration Documents

Student Teacher Evaluations Book 2, part 1 for the years 1918 through 1921.

Student teacher reviews exist for all grades and disciplines offered at the WKU Training School at the time. While there are slight differences in review format from one critic teacher to the next, student teachers were critiqued on their appearance, social efficiency and teaching efficiency. The critic teacher added some general remarks and gave a rating:

• E = excellent
• F = fair
• G = good
• V.G. = very good

This notebook has been divided into three parts for presentation on TopScholar in order to make downloads easier. …

Ua100/2/1 Student Teacher Evaluations, Book 2, Part 3, Wku Training School

WKU Administration Documents

Student Teacher Evaluations Book 2, part 1 for the years 1918 through 1921.

Student teacher reviews exist for all grades and disciplines offered at the WKU Training School at the time. While there are slight differences in review format from one critic teacher to the next, student teachers were critiqued on their appearance, social efficiency and teaching efficiency. The critic teacher added some general remarks and gave a rating:

• E = excellent
• F = fair
• G = good
• V.G. = very good

This notebook has been divided into three parts for presentation on TopScholar in order to make downloads easier. …

Ua100/2/1 Student Teacher Evaluations Book 2, Part 2, Wku Training School

WKU Administration Documents

Student Teacher Evaluations Book 2, part 1 for the years 1918 through 1921.

Student teacher reviews exist for all grades and disciplines offered at the WKU Training School at the time. While there are slight differences in review format from one critic teacher to the next, student teachers were critiqued on their appearance, social efficiency and teaching efficiency. The critic teacher added some general remarks and gave a rating:

• E = excellent
• F = fair
• G = good
• V.G. = very good

This notebook has been divided into three parts for presentation on TopScholar in order to make downloads easier. …

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 4, No. 1, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter and course catalog, this issue promotes teacher education.

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1920-1921, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1920-1921 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, its affiliated branches' purpose and locations, department descriptions, biographical information about and images of faculty, course descriptions, and tuition information.

Ua12/2/1 Normal Heights, Vol. 3, No. 5, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter and course catalog, this issue promotes teacher education.

07-27-1919, Harriet Sweetser

Life as a Teacher (1904-1918)

This collection contains letters written by Harriet Sweetser, dated from 1898 to 1916, as well as some photographs. Most of the letters were written during her time as a student at Gorham Normal School, a teacher training college located on what is currently the Gorham campus of the University of Southern Maine. Almost all of the letters are addressed to her mother, with a few to her father. Sweetser writes home to tell her parents about her day-to-day life at school. She later taught at a grammar school in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine and became a superintendent. Harriet Sweetser was born on …

07-07-1919, Harriet Sweetser

Life as a Teacher (1904-1918)

This collection contains letters written by Harriet Sweetser, dated from 1898 to 1916, as well as some photographs. Most of the letters were written during her time as a student at Gorham Normal School, a teacher training college located on what is currently the Gorham campus of the University of Southern Maine. Almost all of the letters are addressed to her mother, with a few to her father. Sweetser writes home to tell her parents about her day-to-day life at school. She later taught at a grammar school in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine and became a superintendent. Harriet Sweetser was born on …

08-18-1918, Harriet Sweetser

Life as a Teacher (1904-1918)

This collection contains letters written by Harriet Sweetser, dated from 1898 to 1916, as well as some photographs. Most of the letters were written during her time as a student at Gorham Normal School, a teacher training college located on what is currently the Gorham campus of the University of Southern Maine. Almost all of the letters are addressed to her mother, with a few to her father. Sweetser writes home to tell her parents about her day-to-day life at school. She later taught at a grammar school in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine and became a superintendent. Harriet Sweetser was born on …

Ua12/2/1 Western Normal Letter, Vol. 2, No. 3, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter dedicated to the rural education issues and recruitment of students to WKU.

Carlisle Memorial Volume, Watson Boone Duncan, Charles Forster Smith, Henry Nelson Snyder, Robert A. Law, David Duncan Wallace

College Books

Table of Contents:

The Carlisle Family

Life Sketch of Dr. Carlisle - by Dr. Charles Forster Smith

Dr. Carlisle as a Citizen - by Watson B. Duncan

The Wofford Chapel Hour - by Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder

Wofford College and its President Twenty Years Ago - by Dr. Robert A. Law

Dr. Carlisle as a Teacher - by Dr. David Duncan Wallace

Tributes to Dr. Carlisle

How Are We Educating Our Young Girls?, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

From the Introduction to When Children Err: A Book for Young Mothers, by Elizabeth Harrison

Harrison discusses the way in which past educational thought, as pointed out by Herbert Spencer, does not prepare individuals for motherhood, to which she describes the importance and necessity to do so.

When Children Err: A Book For Young Mothers, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

Table of Contents: The Introduction, The Problem, Who Sets the Standards?, How Wrong Standards are Set Up, Danger of Vague and Varying Standards, When Standards Differ, The Highest Standard, The Growth of Standards, The Discipline of Nature, The Discipline of the Inner Life, The Discipline of the Social World, Value of Confession, Various Forms of Discipline, Arbitrary, or Impulsive Punishment, Retributive, or Revengeful Punishment, Protective, or Legal Punishment, Educative, or Wise Punishment, How to Avoid the Need of Punishment, The Answer Which Time Has Given

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1914-1915, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1914-1915 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, department descriptions, biographical information about and images of faculty, course descriptions, and tuition information.

The Montessori Method And The Kindergarden, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

Report commissioned in 1914 by the U.S. Bureau of Education on a study of Dr. Maria Montessori's schools in Italy, by Miss Elizabeth Harrison. Describes Maria Montessori's contribution to the education of young children and compares her methods with that of the Froebelian Kindergarten method.

Ua100/2/5 Training School News, Wku Training School

WKU Administration Documents

There are two years of Training School News extant in University Archives. Volume I was published weekly between April 3 and May 8, 1914. It has been scanned to be nearly full-text searchable.

The Winona Normal Bulletin, Series Ix, Number 3, Winona Normal School

The Winona Normal Bulletin

The Winona Normal Bulletin was founded in 1904 and dedicated to the interests of elementary education in Minnesota.

The Winona Normal Bulletin, Winona Normal School

The Winona Normal Bulletin

The Winona Normal Bulletin was founded in 1904 and dedicated to the interests of elementary education in Minnesota. In this issue, an essay entitled, "The Grading of Students" by G.E. Maxwell (President, Winona Normal School).

Sherwood Music School Annual Catalog 1913-1914, Sherwood Music School

Academic Catalogs

The 1913-1914 Annual Academic Catalog for Sherwood Music School, featuring information about the School, department descriptions, biographical information about and images of faculty, course descriptions, and tuition information.

The Winona Normal Bulletin, Winona Normal School

The Winona Normal Bulletin

The Winona Normal Bulletin was founded in 1904 and dedicated to the interests of elementary education in Minnesota. In this issue, an essay entitled, "The Triumph of Enthusiasm" by W.F. Webster.

The Winona Normal Bulletin, Winona Normal School

The Winona Normal Bulletin

The Winona Normal Bulletin was founded in 1904 and dedicated to the interests of elementary education in Minnesota. In this issue, an essay entitled, "Early Education: What Shall it Be?", which was composed by various contributors.

The Winona Normal Bulletin, Winona Normal School

The Winona Normal Bulletin

The Winona Normal Bulletin was founded in 1904 and dedicated to the interests of elementary education in Minnesota. In this issue, an essay entitled, "A Study of the Eliminated" by V.L. Mangun.

Offero, The Giant: A Christmas-Eve Story, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

This children's story tells the tale of Offero, the Giant, "the tallest and strongest man" in the world, who sets out to find the greatest ruler on Earth. While on his journey, he learns of Jesus Christ.