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Scope and content: Diplomas, certificates, and similar items relating to the Warner and Frazer families of Nashville, Tenn., most relating to their attendence at Ward Seminary for Young Ladies, University of Nashville, Cumberland University, and First Presbyterian Church.
Items in box 1 relate to the Warner family and include 18 diplomas and certificates of proficiency in various classes from Ward Seminary for Young Ladies, 1896-1902 for the following...
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Scope and content: Yearbook; commencement invitations; programs to performances, concerts and recitals addressed to the Meguiar family of Madison, Tenn.; clippings; a copy of the Buford final exam; and a funeral program for Mr. E.G. Buford.
The 1912 yearbook includes a wealth of information about the programs, course of study, and activities of the students and school, describing performances, recitals, and other events. These descriptions include...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman and civic leader David Kirpatrick (Pat) Wilson, conducted 13 Sept. 2006 by Cabot Pyle and Kenneth L. Roberts as part of The Turner Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour and 14 minute interview, Wilson discusses such topics as his childhood and education; attending Wallace University School; serving...
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Scope and content: Book of student examinations in arithmetic, grammar, geography, spelling and a "class examination" in grammar from the middle class of the Grammar School at Montgomery Bell Academy under the instruction of P.H. Manning, dated Mar. 30, 1883. Includes individual student examination papers which have been bound into a single volume. The volume was presented to the student with the highest average scholarship, Charles C. Trabue.
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Scope and content: This scrapbook compiled by Edith "Deedie" Davis while a student at the all-girls Ward-Belmont College preparatory school begins in late 1939, and continues through June 1941. Much of the material is newsclippings (many with photographs) about her, her activities, or her schoolmates, as well as boys from other schools who dated Edith or her friends, or were escorts at dances. Two young men's names appear frequently: Duncan Eve, of...
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Scope and content: The collection includes written notes, transcripts, or reports based upon interviews done in 1980 by students with alumni who attended the school between 1913 and 1979. The questions are divided into seven sections. Questions range from factual (What years did you attend? How did you get to school? Did you have to take an entrance exam?) to opinion (Favorite subjects? Most difficult subjects? Teachers who stand out in your...
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Abstract: Includes a wide variety of material relating to schools in the Nashville area and elsewhere in Middle Tennessee. Most items outside of the Nashville area concern universities or colleges. In the collection as a whole, all types of schools are included, both public and private, and elementary, secondary, and post-secondary institutions. Materials are also included which concern or originate with school-affiliated groups and individuals, such...