Grandfather\u27s Clock

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A State Teachers College Serving Eastern Kentucky

Typescript of a radio broadcast by Henry Clay Haggan on November 14, 1935 on WCMI Ashland, Kentucky.https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/college_histories/1012/thumbnail.jp

Familial Influences on Second- and Third-Generation Teachers in an Eastern Tennessee School District.

The purpose of this study was to determine if having a parent, a grandparent, or both a parent and grandparent who were educators was a contributing factor for teachers in not only choosing education but also remaining in the profession long term. I constructed a theoretical framework explaining the phenomenon. A review of the literature provided a basis for classifying motivations teachers have for entering the profession, possible reasons for leaving, satisfiers, and dissatisfiers. There were 18 participants in this grounded-theory research. The participants were identified using the snowball method. My study was conducted in a rural county in East Tennessee in 1 of 2 school systems present there. The analysis of the data presented several themes and subsequent findings. The impact of the participants\u27 families was definitely present. Although many participants reported that their parents did not overtly encourage them to become teachers, having witnessed their parents as teachers seemed to have made their transition to teaching easier. Each of the participants had extremely positive childhood experiences with education. The participants also noted that being children of teachers made them more aware of the various types of responsibilities and activities that were required of teachers. The participants also noted that having children of their own made the schedules of teachers more appealing, as well as their intense desire to see children learn. I found through the research conducted with the participants of my study that their parents did not push or force them to become teachers; however, the experiences they had as children of teachers seemed to better prepare them for all of the duties, experiences, and expectations teachers face on a regular basis

Letter from H[enry] C[lay] Hooker to John Muir, 1905 Jul 10.

[letterhead]July 10th 1905Mr John MuirMartinez CalDear SirI have yours of the 2nd and will as soon as I can conviently send the goods to Willcox have them shipt to you to Martinez. I am pleased to hear of favorable result of your wife. I regret very much that your stay here could not have been prolonged particular on the act of your Daughters for I am of the belief the result would have been benificial - I also intended showing you some grand mountain senery and making you a camp that would have pleased you and your daughter. At some later date I hope to have the pleasure of entertaining you, also your daughters. Kindly commend me to your entire household and say to them my doors are wide open to them at all times. Friendly yours etcH C Hooker0358

Effect of titanium dioxide as a mineralizer in silica brick

The magnitude of the thermal expansion of silica brick and its inability to withstand rapid temperature changes gives rise to problems of considerable importance in the manufacture of silica brick. In firing the silica brick, mineralogical changes occur in the quartzite from which the brick is made, in which minerals of lower specific gravity are formed. This results in a permanent expansion of the brick. These mineralogical changes have been thoroughly studied and considerable information is known on the different forms of silica produced at the higher temperatures. If the conditions of firing are such that these changes have progressed but little during the initial firing of the brick it is quite certain that if the brick are used in services where they are subjected to a high temperature, further permanent expansion will occur. This expansion results, generally, in buckling and racking of the silica brick walls. The changes causing this expansion are due to the quartz changing over into tridymite and cristobalite and due to the unconverted quartz changing from alpha to beta quartz. From the thermal expansion data for the different forms of silica, it is seen that tridymite has the most desirable thermal expansions characteristics for silica refractories, and for this reason it is desired to convert as much of the silica possible to the tridymite form in the initial firing of the silica brick --Introduction, page 1-3

Evidences Of Effectiveness Of Instruction In Vocational Education In Agriculture In Houston County, Texas

During the past several years which have been marked by an increasing demand on part of the American public for economy, the field of secondary education has not been overlooked. Numerous questions respecting the extent to which the adoption of improved farm practices, general farming and farm improvements are and have been influenced by vocational agriculture instruction are being raised relative to the effectiveness of vocational agriculture instruction in the eight Negro school districts of Houston County, Texas, where vocational agriculture has been taught from three to twenty-two years. A. Historical Background of Vocational Agriculture Education In The United States There have been vast changes in agriculture in the United States in the past 150 years. These changes have been characterized by attitudes, institutions,and, as Paul H.Johnstone^ points out, have influenced the very essence and character of rural living and even the philosophies, the ideas of right and wrong. In agriculture, new methods of cultivation were developed. Washington and Jefferson were among the first to put aside traditional prejudices and tackle agricultural problems scientifically. One element in the background of rural America was a vigorous movement for self-education as a means of enriching life. There was an agitation for public schools and colleges to teach agricultural science. The Morrill Act of 1862 established the agricultural colleges. Education by this time had become more than a means of attaining culture. It was considered the road to social and economic advancement. The Success Philosophy had begun to take root in this country. Thus farming came to be considered increasingly as a commercial pursuit rather than primarily as a way of living. Agricultural journals, schools, and colleges urged farmers to take the businessman as a model. As this viewpoint was more widely accepted, the whole picture of the farm enterprise changed. The farmer found himself faced with the business problems of the commercial world. He was forced to accept the methods of that world even though the frequent inequalities under which agriculture was practiced placed him at a disadvantage

Henry Clay to Captain Henry Brewerton

In this letter, Henry Clay requests that his grandson be granting a leave of absence from West Point

Letter, Henry Clay to William K. Wall, April 18, 1840

This handwritten letter, dated April 18, 1840, is written from Henry Clay to William K. Wall, Esq regarding the sale of the estate of Col. Morrison in Cynthiana. Clay requests that the estate be sold at auction, taking no less than the three hundred and fifty dollars that has ben offered.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-original-manuscripts/1125/thumbnail.jp

Letter, Henry Clay to the Governor of Rhode Island, June 14, 1828

This letter, dated June 14, 1828, sent to the governor of Rhode Island by Henry Clay serves as a notice of delivery of the Laws of the last Session to James Collier for distribution. Two boxes containing 150 copies were delivered. The form letter is on Department of State stationary.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-original-manuscripts/1124/thumbnail.jp