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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.

Ua12/2/22 Proceedings, Wku Moot Congress

WKU Administration Documents

Proceedings of the 1912-1913 sessions of the WKU Moot Congress. This student organization was created to teach students about government and hone their debating skills.

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 1, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

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

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 Ellsworth Regenstein. Includes review of curriculum and certificates granted.

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 …

Ua99/3 Commerce Class Commencement Program, Bgbu Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Commencement program listing graduates.

Ua45/6 Commencement Concert, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

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

Ua99/6/1 Joint Debate Program, Coreco Debating Society, Big Four Debating Society

Student Organizations

Program for the sixth annual joint debate between the Big Four and Coreco debating societies. Gives question to be debated, names of debaters and lists of all members of both societies.

Ua45/1/1 State Normal Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 2, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

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

Ua97/3 Admissions / Student Rolls Register, Ogden College Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Admissions / student rolls register created by the Ogden College Registrar for the years 1894-1911.

Includes name, parent/guardian, residence, boarding place, entrance examination scores, remarks, some entries have class, room, schedule instead of entrance exam scores.

• Candidates for Admission 1894-1906
• Declamation Grades 1894-1906
• Enrollment Statistics 1883-1906 p. 96
• Honor Roll 1894-1906
• Reports to Commission of Education
• 1897-1898 pp. 52-53
• 1899 p. 68
• 1900 p. 86
• 1901 p. 112
• 1902 p. 128
• 1903 p. 137
• Student Rolls 1894-1907; 1910-1911

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Administration Documents

Minutes of WKU faculty meetings for 1911 from Books 1 and 2. The books have slight variations. See also Book 1 Index.

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

WKU Administration Documents

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 …

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

WKU Administration Documents

Letter from Nettie Depp to Henry Cherry from Glasgow, Kentucky, August 20, 1910. Transcript of letter:

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

My dear Mr. Cherry,

I have been wating [sic] to know for certain just what I was to do. I go to Scottsville next week. I have charge of the 7th and 8th grades and two higher classes at $65.00 per month. This is not the work I wanted to do nor is it the price I wanted to work for, still I think it the best I can do this year and I shall go and do …

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 …

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

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

WKU Administration Documents

Letter from Nettie Depp to Henry Cherry dated July 28, 1910 from Glasgow, Ky. Transcript of letter:

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

My dear sir:

Your letter to hand and I have made the application for the school. I sincerely thank you for all you have done for me and only hope that I may be able in some way to repay you.

I have not been at home long enough to visit any schools but hope to do so soon.

Yours for success

Nettie B. Depp

Ua45/6 Commencement Concert, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

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

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

WKU Administration Documents

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

Ua99/6/1 Debate Program, Coreco, Big Four

Student Organizations

Program for debate between Big Four and Coreco on topic that woman suffrage would be hazardous to the best interests of our country.

Ua94/6/2/14 Physiography Notebook, Annie Reis

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Physiography notebook kept by student Annie Reis in 1910. Notebook includes notes and drawings related to physical geography such as solar systems, rivers, faults, weather and glaciers.

Ua1b3/7 Meeting Minutes, Wku Faculty

WKU Administration Documents

Minutes of WKU faculty weekly meetings for 1910 from Books 1 and 2. The books have slight variations. See also Book 1 Index.

Ua1b3/7 Oratorical League Committee, Wku Faculty

WKU Administration Documents

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.

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.

Ua12/1/1 Elevator, Vol. I, No. 2, 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 Relation that Should Exist Between the State Normal and City Schools by Herman Lee Donovan
• Some Very Lion Stories by Theodore Roosevelt
• A Prophecy by Myrtle Duncan
• Testimonials
• Editorials
• The Library
• The Life Class by Nell Smith
• The Kit Kats by Novice Madison
• With the Pyerians by H.W. Gingles
• The Four-Year Class by Jake Farris
• The Poet's Lair
• Consistency
• Owed to a Mosquito by Carl Adams
• The Soliliquy of W.S. Taylor
• The Chestnut Hunt of 1909 …

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

• Child Labor by Joseph Roemer
• As to the Library
• Plan of the Campus by Henry Wright
• Generally Speaking
• Fall Term
• The Acts of the Athletic Disciples
• Review of Late Books
• Side Issues
• Personals

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

WKU Administration Documents

Course catalog & newsletter:

• Schaefer, Ada. Commencement Week – Class of 1909 (WKU)
• Calendar 1909-1910
• Free Tuition
• Perspective of the New Proposed Plant of Western Kentucky State Normal School
• Cherry, Henry. Editorial
• Graphic Representation of the Influence of the Western Kentucky State Normal School

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 …