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Pacific Review Agust 1946, Pacific Alumni Association Aug 1946

Pacific Review Agust 1946, Pacific Alumni Association

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.


Pacific Review April 1946, Pacific Alumni Association Apr 1946

Pacific Review April 1946, Pacific Alumni Association

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.


Amos Alonzo Stagg's Contributions To Athletics, George Robert Coe Jan 1946

Amos Alonzo Stagg's Contributions To Athletics, George Robert Coe

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a collection of Mr. Stagg's contributions to athletics covering a period of the last sixty-six years, partly as a participant, but largely as a coach, director of physical education, and as a leader of men.

Herein the author wishes to bring tribute to this great man who has contributed more to the field of athletics and the development of manhood than could be written hare in the form of facts and figures.

His achievements and inventions in the various phases of athletics speak for themselves and will go down in the archives representing this field of endeavor. …


Business Education In The California Secondary Schools, Naomi E. Fuqua Jan 1946

Business Education In The California Secondary Schools, Naomi E. Fuqua

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

n a survey made by the California State Department of Education, Bureau of Business Education, in Karch, 1945, it was found that very few secondary schools teach advertising as a separate subject; however, techniques in advertising are usually presented in such courses as: salesmanship, retail- I ing, merchandising, general business, consumer's economics, and business English. The number of schools teaching advertising were summarized in the survey as follows


The Development And Application Of A Test To Detect Certain Habits Of The Scientific Attitude Among High School Science Students, Charles Edward Hamilton Jan 1946

The Development And Application Of A Test To Detect Certain Habits Of The Scientific Attitude Among High School Science Students, Charles Edward Hamilton

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This investigation is concerned with the development and application of a test to detect certain habits of the scientific attitude among high school science students.

Preliminary investigation relative to the problem centered around the two following procedures: (1) An attempt to determine and define the scientific attitude and its relation to scientific method. (2) A consideration of the results of previous studies related to the above problem.


A Study Of The Occupational Choices Of Senior Students At Modesto High School And Some Of The Salient Factors Affecting Those Choices, Alice Ahlberg Jan 1946

A Study Of The Occupational Choices Of Senior Students At Modesto High School And Some Of The Salient Factors Affecting Those Choices, Alice Ahlberg

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This study is concerned with the problem of occupational choices of high school students and the interplay of the various factors which enter into those choices.


An Investigation Of Some Problems Affecting Elementary Schools Of A Small City In A Defense Area During World War Ii With Particular Reference To San Leandro, California, Harry E. Shaffer Jan 1946

An Investigation Of Some Problems Affecting Elementary Schools Of A Small City In A Defense Area During World War Ii With Particular Reference To San Leandro, California, Harry E. Shaffer

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

During the period from April of 1940 to April of 1944, the population of the City of San Leandro increased from 14,601 to 22,903, or approximately 56.8%. Farmland and other undeveloped properties, to the extent of 215 acres, mostly far removed from the former residential sections, have been turned into closely built residence areas. Some 1500 houses have been built in one such section, alone, and the total, to January 1, 1945, included 2,504 residences and 171 multiple unit dwellings.2

War activities, within the city and the neighboring communities, have attracted large numbers of defense workers and these have …


Testing Practices, Purposes And Problems In Guidance Programs In California Secondary Schools ; A Survey Of 187 Selected High Schools, Laurence L. Belanger Jan 1946

Testing Practices, Purposes And Problems In Guidance Programs In California Secondary Schools ; A Survey Of 187 Selected High Schools, Laurence L. Belanger

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Man is reciprocal:

The function of man's education is concerned with the dynamics of the reciprocity between man as the in- individual and man as a social group. It becomes the specific responsibility of the school to provide valid experiences through which each student as an individual master the means, the methods, the understandings, the strategies, the philosophy requisite to successful operation of such harmonics as exist or possibly may exist between himself and the group of which he is or may be an integral part.