“I Am Very Aspiring”: Muirl Dorrough and the Alliance Junior Normal School

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“I Am Very Aspiring”: Muirl Dorrough and the Alliance Junior Normal School

Nebraska History 81 (2000)

History Nebraska - Library

Title: “I Am Very Aspiring”: Muirl Dorrough and the Alliance Junior Normal School

Author: Radke, Andrea

Publisher: Nebraska State Historical Society

Contributing Institution: History Nebraska, https://history.nebraska.gov/

Date: 2000

Description: History Nebraska magazine article, discussing teachers in the small town schools of the west in the early years of the twentieth century were often young and inexperienced. Muirl Dorrough was more capable and devoted than many, and her attendance at the Alliance Junior Normal School increased her motivation and raised her standards.

Language: eng

Subject (Topics) : Teachers colleges

Subject (Topics) : Teachers

Source (Names): Radke, Andrea

Source (Names): Dorrough, Muirl

Source (Places): Hooker County (Neb.)

Source (Places): Grant County (Neb.)

Source (Places): Box Butte County (Neb.)

Source (Temporal): 1900s

Source (Temporal): 1910s

Format-Extent: 9 pages

Format-Medium: magazines (periodicals)

Format-Medium: articles

Note: Full Citation: Andrea Radke, “ „I Am Very Aspiring‟: Muirl Dorrough and the Alliance Junior Normal School,” Nebraska History 81 (2000): 2-11

Relation: copy

Type: text

Date Digital : 2012-10-19

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