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Juvenile Delinquency Of Ellis County, Kansas, 1900-1937, Harry R. Pollock May 1938

Juvenile Delinquency Of Ellis County, Kansas, 1900-1937, Harry R. Pollock

Master's Theses

This study of juvenile delinquency contains 184 cases and covers a period of 57 years, from 1881 to 1938 . The case history of each delinquent was secured from the State Industrial School for Boys at Topeka, Kansas, The State Industrial School for Girls at Beloit, Kansas, and the State Industrial Reformatory at Hutchinson, Kansas. The institutional records also contained the parole reports. The boys were located, their present occupation determined, and their school and church records determined where possible. As there are no records in the probate court concerning the cases, the writer was compelled to compile the records …


Criminal Cases In Ellis County, Kansas, 1867-1937, Wallace F. Baker May 1938

Criminal Cases In Ellis County, Kansas, 1867-1937, Wallace F. Baker

Master's Theses

Many articles have been written on crime and its problems. There is only one true way by which crime maybe studied , and that is by analysis and investigation. In this thesis the purpose of the writer had been to investigate the kind and number of cases that have passed through the district court. Those cases receiving fines and jail sentences necessitated a search of the records to find if the sentences were served and the fines paid . The history of Ellis County was used to give the reader a background for consideration of the cases. Two kinds of …


Factors Affecting Vocational Guidance, Margaret Pankaskie May 1938

Factors Affecting Vocational Guidance, Margaret Pankaskie

Master's Theses

It is the special purpose of this study to find how personality factors affect the employability of youth. In a study of this kind it is necessary to consider the personality as a whole in relation to a larger situation, the ethnological traits of the group, the society in which the youth lives, the economic changes taking place in the community, and the physical and mental capacities in which he is endowed.


Teachers' Use Of Cathartic Methods, Harry Mason Apr 1938

Teachers' Use Of Cathartic Methods, Harry Mason

Master's Theses

The specific problem of this study is to ascertain some of the difficulties experienced by teachers in eliciting emotional catharsis from their pupils and interpreting its results, and to describe these difficulties in operation concepts. The term emotional catharsis is used to mean a spontaneous expression of emotionally toned thoughts or ideas. The term operational concept is taken to mean a unified representation of a state of affairs which is organized so as to suggest its outcome. The term repression is used as defined by Freud. The term rationalization used in the Freudian sense, and refers to the tendency for …


The Criminal Cases Of Russell County, Kansas, Clyde Leon Dutt Apr 1938

The Criminal Cases Of Russell County, Kansas, Clyde Leon Dutt

Master's Theses

The gathering of criminal statistics has long been recognized as a need and a valuable aid to the federal, state and county officials and to students who desire information over a period of years of the history of a municipality or other governmental area. The primary aim of the writer of this thesis has been to investigate all the criminal case s of Russell County so far as offenses against the law have been prosecuted in the district court. The data presented covers the entire history of the country, finding the total number of cases for the sixty-five years, then …


The Influence Of College Courses On Individual Differences., Clarke Carson Mcilree Apr 1938

The Influence Of College Courses On Individual Differences., Clarke Carson Mcilree

Master's Theses

What is the effect of college training upon individuals? More specifically, do college students become more alike or more unlike in , respect to the achievement involved in a college course as a result of taking the course? That is the question which this study will investigate. The importance of this question to the educator is that it involves educational technique and philosophy. If it is found that our educational system decreases individual differences and has the effect therefore, of equalizing opportunity, our philosophy of universal education as an important factor in the achievement of democracy is valid. On the …