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Early State Banking In Kentucky, 1802-1830, S. Beverly Davis
Early State Banking In Kentucky, 1802-1830, S. Beverly Davis
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
It is the purpose of this study to examine the early state-chartered banks of Kentucky: their creation, career and dissolution. To do this it will be necessary to survey the period of Kentucky history from 1802, when the Kentucky Insurance Company was awarded its charter by the Legislature and granted banking powers, to about 1830, when all previously chartered state banks had become non-existent or were in the process of liquidation. Throughout this period it will be necessary to notice the major political trends, events and problems. These, however, will be of secondary importance, and attention primarily will be centered …
Nancy Huston Banks: Her Life & Works, Velma Hines
Nancy Huston Banks: Her Life & Works, Velma Hines
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Several books have been written about the various natural resources of the state of Kentucky. A number of excellent histories of the state have been published with descriptions of the pioneer and outlaw days when the state numbered its inhabitants by the very few thousands. The industrial, economic, and social activities of the Kentucky people have been written about for several years. But Kentucky literature has had practically no recognition. The average person has known very little about Kentucky writers who probably have deserved to be placed among those in the Hall of Fame. From the pen of Kentucky writers …
Relative Scholastic Success Of College Students From High Schools Of Varying Sizes, Leonard Lee Hudson
Relative Scholastic Success Of College Students From High Schools Of Varying Sizes, Leonard Lee Hudson
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Education in America has made substantial growth in its various phases. No factor has been more marked than in the secondary field. The South was tardy in establishing a systematic scheme owing to the devastation of a Civil War and the misunderstandings natural to a reconstruction period. Many forces for the improvement of the secondary field in this section are now accomplishing wonderful results. Accrediting associations to investigate, recommend, and regulate certain practices, different divisions of the state department of education to supervise and inspect, research organizations, graduate schools, and school authorities are adding to the fund of knowledge regarding …
Lucy Furman: Life & Works, Julia Neal
Lucy Furman: Life & Works, Julia Neal
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Four years subsequent to the close of the great conflict between the North and the South there was born in the neutral state of Kentucky, a roman who was destined to serve with great earnestness and to immortalize with great talent the mountain people of her native state. It is through a sympathetic portrayal of the characteristics of the Southern Highlanders that she has achieved an enviable place as a local color writer in American letters.
Tennessee During Secession & Reconstruction, Edward Taylor
Tennessee During Secession & Reconstruction, Edward Taylor
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The present work is intended as a survey of events and conditions in Tennessee during the decade from 1860 to 1870 when the entire nation was torn by sectional strife, racial antagonism, and economic and social disorder. The writer can make no pretension of having made a comprehensive or exhaustive study of the sources. That would involve a paper far beyond the scope of the present study. At best I have only scratched the surface; merely opened avenues for future study.
A Study Of The Public School System Of Todd County, Edwin Hadden
A Study Of The Public School System Of Todd County, Edwin Hadden
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Statement of Problem - The main problem is an attempt to find how Todd County, as a unit, can best provide for the elementary and secondary education of her 2,650 boys and girls. The aims of the consideration of this problem are five, as follows:
- To compare the efficiency of the one-room schools with the central schools, and the central schools with the independent graded school.
- To compare teacher results and teacher qualifications.
- To discover the needed number of elementary and high school plants.
- To discover the needed number of elementary and high school teachers.
- To secure a basis for …
Robert J. Breckinridge: Views On Slavery To Emancipation, Ruby Taylor
Robert J. Breckinridge: Views On Slavery To Emancipation, Ruby Taylor
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
It is the primary purpose of this thesis to resurrect the ideals, hopes, theories and accomplishments of a man whose active years paralleled the stormy and provocative years of slavery. It is desired, in the resuscitation of these events, to connect them properly with the contemporary features of the stated period.
The Attitude Of The Presidents Of The United States Toward Education As Revealed In Their Messages To Congress, Kelsey R. Cummins
The Attitude Of The Presidents Of The United States Toward Education As Revealed In Their Messages To Congress, Kelsey R. Cummins
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This thesis is undertaken with the intention of studying the attitude of the Presidents of the United States toward education as revealed in their messages to Congress. The writer chose this subject because he felt that the messages and speeches reflect their attitude toward education and to some extent at least reflect the national attitude. Since this group has included some of America’s ablest leaders, education may find in their works arguments of great weight.
Since the study was restricted to the messages of Presidents, naturally Richardson’s “Messages and Papers of the Presidents of the Presidents to 1908” is the …