Western Kentucky University - Talisman Yearbook (Bowling Green, KY)

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W'5fOK - 5 - '3i0i4 , H014 XO 9lC.fDiOHT1'lIIX0lCIff '- '.IDlOIl ' Bowling Green and one at Richmond. The Southern Normal School became tl1e State Normal School, now VVestern Kentucky Teachers College, and the Business University was purchased by J. S. Dickey, VV. S. Ashby and J. I.. Ilarman and moved to the McCormick Building. At six o'elock on tl1e morning of July 5, 1911, fire swept a square of the city and the Business Univer- sity was in its path. At nine olclock a. m., the students were assembled for chapel in the College Street building where the institution has been ever since. Then started another period of expansion and improvement. Every forward step was re- warded by larger attendance and greater demand for its graduates. The VVorld VVar filled the institution with students, more of them young ladies than usual, and following the war still more room was necessary. The Teacher Training Course, introduced almost accidentally, became so generally recognized-through tl1e states so rapidly making tl1e teaching of business a part of their high school work-that this pioneering in the field of education grew to be recognized from every quarter of tl1e United States. Accreditment was a necessity and private business colleges had never enjoyed sucl1 a recogni- tion. The lfniversitv of Kentucky was called into conference. Result: Junior College in the field of business. The State institution seemed pleased with the experiment and four years later suggested that the Business University try for Senior College standing. It tried. It succeeded. By this a chapter was started in the history of education in America. ln 1921 Mr. Dickey passed away. Ilis going took one of tl1e most virile, brilliant and radiantly charming men Kentucky ever possessed. As evidence of his high worth and tl1e esteem in which he was held, there stands at his grave Il handsome granite stone bearing the following inscription: An educator forty-three years. At his death President of tl1e Bowling Green Business University. . A courageous, humorous man of mature scholarship, rare personality and cl1arm- ing graces, a popular public speaker, a successful school proprietor, a virile citi- zen, a Christian leader and teacher who reproduced himself many times in tl1e lives of the tl1ousands who sat at his feet. lirected by his grateful students wl1o revere his memory and treasure l1is example. J. Murray Hill, a young man of force and worth, came into the management. It was a rare day in June, 1874. Tl1is is a rare day in june, 1929. Fifty-five years l1ave passed. VVith their passing has gone only one of the leading, active spirits of the Business Uni- versity. The tall, vital young stranger of the June day of '74, is yet tall and vital, but not so l' ' B l' Creen. On that Glasgow day long ago was started something the t 'H young. lIe ivesin ow ing 1 spiritual value of which cannot be measured by research and survey. From that 'exemplx ea- tion of Mark I-Iopkins on one end of a log a11d a boy on the other, has grown VVestern Ken- tucky Teachers College with an annual enrolltnent of four thousand students, with Dr. Cherry still at its head. Three squares removed, in the heart of the residential section of beautiful Bowling Gt'een, is the Business University and College of Commerce with its fifteen hundred students annually from all the states and a few foreign countries, with its accreditment and far-fiung reputation for training for the office, the counting room and the classroom, and back of it, to add to its prestige. give encouragement to its advances, send it students and engage its output are hundreds of America's most prominent business men and scholars, who proudly proclaim tl1eir allegiance to the institution that gave them technical training, inspiration and stronger character. Ashby, Harman and Hill, with hopeful ambition, are still leading on. In the life of the Business University, it is still a rare day in June. F3 XOR KOH 'i liOK ,,, .XO Ok i?l0K HOF HOK

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