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The Concept Of Caste: Cross-Cultural Applications, Bruce Labrack

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

The concept of caste has undergone a thorough re-examination by social scientists in the past three decades. The result has been a redefinition of caste and the application of the term 'caste' to social situations found outside the Indian subcontinent. A review of some of the varieties of caste reported in Japan, Africa, Tibet, Korea and North America are outlined and brief historical summaries illustrate the differing conditions under which these systems arose. Utilizing a broad definition of caste, the structural components and concomitants of castes are compared using the features of birth-ascription, endogamy, ritual pollution and traditional occupation. These …

The Normative Incompleteness Of Social Theories, Werner Leinfellner

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

1. There are two main reasons to use a metalanguage, when we analyse a given informal language (a) of science. The first reason is to avoid semantic antinomies of the liar type. The concept of a metalanguage, widely used since Tarski (1956: 152-268), proposed to split up the normal informal scientific language (a) into an object language (b) and a metalanguage (c). Only within the metalanguage (c) we can speak about the object language (b). Ordinary informal languages are according to Tarski "closed languages." Closed languages make no differences between semantic expressions such as "true," which refer to expressions of …

Experiment At Nebraska The First Two Years Of A Cluster College, Robert E. Knoll, Robert D. Brown

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

In November 1968 the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska was asked to react to a document coming from a faculty-student committee charged with examining the feasibility of establishing an innovating college on the Lincoln campus. It attempted to spell out the need for such innovation, and it offered a plan for fulfilling the need that it delineated. This is that document:

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Within the past generation a new kind of student, a new kind of faculty, and a new kind of university have developed. To meet the challenges which these changes present and to provide for an …

Education For 1984 And After: A Symposium Of Deans Of Education And Leaders In Institutions Educating Teachers, Paul A. Olson, Larry Freeman, James Bowman

Department of English: Faculty Publications

I. Real Educational Needs and Strategies for Response

A. The Roots of Reform and the Demography of Supply and Demand

B. The Need for Teachers With Specialized Skills

C. Summary on Information Needed

"The Crisis of Confidence in Schools and Society " -- Dean Corrigan.

"The Preparation of the Teacher: An Evaluation of the State of the Art" -- Paul A. Olson

II. Targeted Education for Teachers and Access to Teacher Training

III. Accountability

A. The Concept of Accountability

B. Power Relationships: Accountability, Accessibility and Constituencies

"How Should Schools Be Held Accountable?" -- Murray Wax

"Review of Human and Social …

Melvin Randolph Gilmore, Incipient Cultural Ecologist: A Biographic Analysis, David L. Erickson

Open Access Master's Theses (through 2010)

This thesis will be a study in microcosm of Melvin R. Gilmore’s Nebraska research. The study analyzes his ethnobiological field work and writings in terms of biographic factors.Gilmore’s ethnobiological research manifests both bioecological and cultural ecological rationales. The thesis shows that Gilmore’s pioneering work in ethnobiology, together with studies by Harrington and others, laid the groundwork for modern cultural ecology as practiced by Julian Steward and others. The author of the thesis used original documents from the Nebraska State Historical Society in his research.

While in Nebraska Gilmore developed an interest in ethnobiology. His initial ethnobotanical field work was related …

Introduction To Ethnic Voters And The Election Of Lincoln, Frederick C. Luebke

Department of History: Faculty Publications

A twofold purpose informs this anthology of essays on ethnic voters in the presidential election of 1860. First, it gathers together a great quantity of factual information about immigrants and politics on the eve of the Civil War. Naturally, the Germans receive the greatest amount of attention. Not only did they rival the Irish in numbers in 1860. but they were also the most diverse ethnic group in America. The essays of this volume also offer much data about politicians and their perceptions of the democratic process, about political parties and the social bases of their support, and about political …

Semantic Constituents Of Constructions Taking That-Clauses, Robert S. Haller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

What this paper has tried to do is to present some data which would have to be accounted for in an adequate semantic theory, and to suggest some of the specific elements of such a theory. A semantic theory must presuppose the existence of modal operators on every utterance, and would explain the meaning of any discourse as the relation among its medals. Logical theory has always done this, in taking every proposition of an argument as an element of the modal relations making up the argument. A semantic theory would have to specify the relations among medals which would …

Nebraska Criminal Discovery, John R. Snowden

Nebraska Law Review

One of the controversial issues in today's dynamic criminal law and procedure is the proper role and status of discovery. The notion of criminal discovery has had an exciting if not always successful history, and apparently the trend of the law is toward liberalization. The Eightieth Session of the Nebraska Legislature attempted to deal with this area by passing two bills, LB 702 and LB 1417. This Comment examines the current role and status of criminal discovery in Nebraska as a result of the legislation.

Field Manual Fm 5-30, Engineer Intelligence, September 1967 (With Change 1, 1 October 1971), Robert Bolin , Depositor

United States Department of Defense Military Intelligence

(1) According to FM 21-205, 18 Jan 1944, "Field Manuals constitute the primary means of promulgating the basic doctrines of military training and operations."

(2) This manual supersedes FM 5-30, 1959.

(3) This manual is much different from the manual it superseded because before 1962 Engineer Intelligence was defined as intelligence about foreign military equipment and on military organizations analogous to the US Army Corps of Engineers. In addition, two civil organizations within the Corps of Engineers, the Board of engineers for Rivers and Harbors and the Beach Erosion Board, produced intelligence about foreign harbors and potential landing beaches of …

Proceedings Of The Second Annual Meeting Of The National Collegiate Honors Council. Washington, D.C., October 20-22, 1967, Walter D. Weir

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs

The National Collegiate Honors Council conducted its second annual meeting at the Statler-Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C., October 20-22, 1967. About 230 faculty members, administrators, and students attended this meeting. The proceedings of that meeting are contained in this volume. The meeting was basically devoted to three concerns: (1) the problem of liaison between secondary schools and college honors programs; (2) problems and developments in the offering of science courses for honors students; (3) the exchange of information about problems and new directions in the honors program of those participating in the meeting. For the most part, the papers in this …

Of Noon Scholars And Old Schools, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

My thesis is that our scholarship is the poorer for not being developed, half consciously, for a public civic reason and to serve a somewhat public civic end. The MLA's proper first concern may, as some of its memoranda have indicated, be with scholarship and its second with pedagogy; but I cannot believe this. The two cannot for a moment be separated. Could they for Socrates or Erasmus or Milton or Wittgenstein? Are not the logical structure of a discipline—the way it fits together for us—and its pedagogy, as Piaget and common sense tell us, one? And if we have …

The Arts Of Language: Needed Curricula And Curriculum Development For Institutes In The English Language Arts: Language, Literature, Composition, Speech And Reading, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Contents

Participants of the Conference

Representatives of the Professional Organizations as Observers at the Conference

Introduction: The Drift of the Conference, Paul A. Olson

Reading in the Elementary Language Arts Institutes, William Iverson

Report of the Reading Committee, Robert Ruddell, Chairman

Recommendation for Components of the Elementary English

Language Arts Institutes, Robert Allen

Report of the Language Committee, G. Thomas Fairclough, Chairman

Speech in the Language Arts Institute, Kenneth Brown

Report of the Speech Committee, William Buys, Chairman

Composition, Dorothy Saunders

Report on the Composition Committee, Albert Kitzhaber, Chairman

Teachers, Children, and Criticism, Bruce Mickleburgh

Report of the Literature Committee, …

Marcelin Berthelot: A Study Of A Scientist's Public Role, Reino Virtanen

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

The French chemist Marcelin Berthelot won great recognition during his lifetime, but since his death in 1907 he has become little more than a name for the world at large. He was a representative man-representing his time so completely that there remained little for the future to exploit. A man whose manifold accomplishments were so appropriate to the stage then reached by scientific development that nothing was left over-no loose ends, no undigested ideas, no potentialities unrealized. After Claude Bernard and Louis Pasteur, no scientist in France could challenge his eminence until the turn of the century, when other leading …

Application Of Beutel’S Experimental Jurisprudence To Japanese Sociology Of Law, Shin Oikawa

Nebraska Law Review

This translation of a Japanese study of an American scholar’s work in Experimental Jurisprudence is perhaps best introduced in the words of the Japan Reading Newspaper review of February 29, 1960: “Shin Oikawa . . . tries to absorb Beutel’s study which is, among the recent fruits of American Jurisprudence, inclined toward legal realism, and he does so from the standpoint of a specialist in sociology of law in Japan. Considering the present condition of Japanese Jurisprudence, it is important to realize the necessity that such an article be read by many people. Conclusively, his article has important significance.” Professor …

The New Critics And The Language Of Poetry, C.E. Pulos

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

One of the most remarkable phenomena in the literary world of the present century has been the revolution in taste accomplished by what has come to be known as "the new criticism." While 1. A. Richards is sometimes looked upon as the founder of this movement, I purpose to show that the imagists were its real founders. The imagists and the school of Richards may, of course, be treated as separate schools. But they may also be regarded, as I propose to regard them, as different phases of the same basic movement.

To include the imagists under the new criticism …

Physics, Chapter 13: Properties Of Matter, Henry Semat, Robert Katz

Robert Katz Publications

When a system is subjected to external forces, it generally undergoes a change in size or shape or both. We have thus far touched very lightly on such changes; for example, we have considered the change in length of an elastic spring and the change in volume of a gas when such systems were subjected to varying pressures. The changes produced in a system by the action of external forces depend upon the physical properties of the material of which the system is composed. A study of the properties of matter leads to information which is of practical value to …

Correlation Between Grades In Engineering Physics And Performance In Engineering Curricula, Donald Hoyt, Louis D. Ellsworth, Robert Katz

Robert Katz Publications

A survey of grades in Engineering Physics I at Kansas State College showed that the inner structure of the course was highly consistent. The correlation coefficient between the average of the first three tests and the final grade was about 0.88. More significantly, valuable prognostic data could be obtained from the final grade in the course. The correlation coefficient between the Engineering Physics I grade and the final grade point average of students who completed the course was about 0.83. Only 21% of the students initially failing the course successfully completed an engineering degree, while about 75% of the A, …

Then And Now, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

I hope this microphone works. If you have to listen to me I hope you can hear me. Once before at a gathering of a learned society seeing an upright gadget before me, I talked with extreme care directly into for half an hour, moving neither to the right nor to the le find as I went down from the platform that is was a lamp.

For half a century I have belonged to the MLA. My name first appears in the Proceedings for 1906, printed in 1907. Apparently I joined in a historic year. Percy Waldron Long, who became …

Then And Now, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

I HOPE this microphone works. If you have to listen to me I hope you can hear me. Once before at a gathering of a learned society, seeing an upright gadget before me, I talked with extreme care directly into it for half an hour, moving neither to the right nor to the left, only to find as I went down from the platform that it was a lamp.

For half a century I have belonged to the MLA. My name first appears in the Proceedings for 1906, printed in 1907. Apparently I joined in a historic year. Percy Waldron …

John Wesley Powell: Frontiersman Of Science, Paul Meadows

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

I should explain that this book is more or less an accident. It started with a suggestion by my friend and former colleague, the late Joseph Kinsey Howard, that the Major was worth knowing. A Montana newspaperman and writer, Howard had been impressed by the amazing far-sightedness of Powell's report, published in 1878, on the arid lands of the West. At the time I was preparing a report of my own for a Rockefeller Foundation research project in the humanities. Upon reading the Major's study of the arid lands, it occurred to me that it would be profitable to review …

Counter Intelligence Corps, History And Mission In World War Ii, Robert Bolin , Depositor

United States Army: Training Documents

This is an unnumbered special text used by the Counter Intelligence Corps School at Ft Hollibaird, MD, in 1951. It covers the history of the Counter Intelligence Command from 1917 to 1945 with a special emphasis on the World War II years.

The text is a mixture of facts about operations and musing about the role and functions of the Counter Intelligence Corps.

Special Regulations 10-120-1, 14 September 1949. Organization And Functions: Department Of The Army Intelligence Division, General Staff, Robert Bolin , Depositor

United States Department of Defense Military Intelligence

This regulation briefly gives a history of the intelligence division and outlines its function.

The Future Of Poetry, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Poetry is the most beautiful form of human speech. The human race has always had its song and always will have it. It may not be expected to die out. In our present century, however, its status has altered. There are relatively fewer hearers or readers of it than in the long stretches of the past and fewer noted poets. Professors offer courses in the great poetry of the world, and one hopes that they will continue to do so. Poetry societies exist on campuses in great numbers. Prizes are offered to encourage young poets and avenues of publication opened …

Fm 11-35, Signal Corps Intelligence, 1942, Robert Bolin

United States Department of Defense Military Intelligence

This manual describes the intelligence activities of the Signal Corps. At that time, the Signal Corps was a bureau within the Headquarters, Department of the Army, as well as a branch of the Army to which soldiers were commissioned and assigned. The Signal Corps developed and supplied the army with signal and photographic equipment, trained personnel and units for service with the forces in the field, provided the army with communications and photographic services, and provided communications, signal, and technical intelligence. This manual describes the intelligence responsibilities and functions of the Signal Corps and the role of signal intelligence units …

The Direct-Historical Approach In Pawnee Archeology (With Six Plates), Waldo R. Wedel, Jade Robison , Depositor

Nebraska State Historical Society: Transactions and Reports

The direct-historical approach in archaeology assumes the existence of an analogous relationship between historic accounts and prehistoric data, serving to establish cultural identity under the basis of cultural continuity. In this article, Dr. Waldo Wedel uses the direct-historical approach to review some preliminary findings of archaeological investigations undertaken as part of an early effort to study the Pawnee culture of eastern Nebraska. The University of Nebraska Archeological Survey was established in 1929, led by Dr. W. D. Strong, in an attempt to better understand prehistoric Pawnee culture. Previous evidence existed in the form of A. T. Hill’s artifact collection and …

Ec5541 Can We Be Trusted With Leisure?

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 5541 is about the increasing number of leisure time used for recreation and if society can be trusted with it.

Extensions Of Usage Of A Pronoun, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

[This article treats briefly, in the chronology of their appearance, the substantive uses of the pronoun of the third person neuter: the English and American game usage, two American colloquial or dialectal usages, and the newest usage, emerging from Hollywood, with its adjectival and nominal derivatives.]

The English pronoun of the third person neuter, it, has established itself as a substantive in various meanings, some of which are so widely current as to augur for them considerable vitality. An enumeration of these substantive uses in American English yields the following-- approximately, I think, in the order of their appearance.

The Etymology Of An English Expletive, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Professor G. P. Krapp makes an attractive case for his derivation of darn, darned in the brief essay on this word in his recent The English Language in America. He discards the usual explanation that darn is a variant or minced form of damn, and believes that, although it now stands in intimate relation to damn, it had an independent origin. He takes as his starting point the Old English adjective dierne, 'secret,' Middle English derne, Elizabethan dern, and assumes a transition from a descriptive adjective or adverb to an imprecation. The adjective took …

The Americanization Of Czech Surnames, J. B. Dudek

Nebraskiana Publications: Resources and Materials on the 37th State

An essay on issues surrounding the alteration of Czech surnames in the United States of America in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

J. B. Dudek was born in Nebraska and was the rector at St. John's Nepomuk Roman Catholic Church in Yukon, Oklahoma, United States. He was educated at Benedictine Abbey at Sacred Heart, Oklahoma, and at Kendrick Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

The Value Of English Linguistics To The Teacher, Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

WHAT is included in the usual course in the history of the English language? Presumably some teachers emphasize the translation of older monuments, some emphasize training in etymologies, some phonetic changes, and some changes in language structure and forms. Some offer courses in the hope of fostering a more accurate use of language, some because of the discipline ~o be gained from the study of language ID the abstract, and some in order to afford the necessary preparation for the scholar. All have in mind the development, on the part of the student, of a scientific attitude toward language. Any …