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College Catalog And Circular 1920, Iowa State Teachers College

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Calendar for 1920-1921 ... 3
Officers of Administration and Instruction ... 4
General Information ... 30
Residence, Student Health, Assembly ... 34
Expenses and Fees ... 35
Free Scholarships ... 37
Extension Service ... 37
Acceptance of Credits from Other Institutions ... 37
College Organizations ... 38
Faculty Organizations ... 39
Training in Actual Teaching ... 39
Public Lectures and Entertainments ... 39
Boarding and Lodging ... 40
Employment of Students ... 41
Twelve Weeks Normal Training ... 41
School Credits in Lieu of Certificate Examinations ... 41
Examinations for Teachers Certificates ... 42
Department Certificates ... …

A Study Of Sociality In The Madreporaria, Gertrude Van Wagenen, H. J. Wehman

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The type of sociality found in the Madreporaria is necessarily primitive. While we were making this study two criteria of sociality have been adopted and applied: first, the proximity of one corallite to another; second, organic communication between associated polyps and corallites. As the two criteria indicate, sociality is examined from the standpoint of morphology of hard parts. This is necessary because of the extent of the field covered, the absence of live specimens, and the inclusion of fossils.

Proceedings Of The Thirty-Fourth Annual Session (Of The Iowa Academy Of Science), Held At Iowa City, April 23 And 24, 1920: Minutes Of The Meeting; Staff & Committee Reports

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Miscellaneous Addresses, 1885-1920, Homer H. Seerley

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Homer Horatio Seerley was the second chief administrator of UNI. His predecessor was James Cleland Gilchrist. Seerley led the school from 1886 to 1928.

Soft Water Of Central New York, Nicholas Knight, J. B. Shumaker

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The sample of water was taken from a well in the town of Sangerfield, Oneida County, New York, about a mile and a half south of the village of Waterville. It is located on the flat land in the bottom of the Sangerfield valley near the headwaters of Chenango River.

The Independence Shale Near Brandon, Iowa, A. O. Thomas

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

On June 23, 1876, at the first annual meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science at Iowa City, Prof. Samuel Calvin read a paper entitled "Preliminary Notice of Some Dark Shales near Independence, Iowa." The paper was not published but early in 1877 an abstract of it appeared in the American Naturalist, Vol. 11, pp. 57-58. In this abstract the shale is referred to the Marcellus due to its position below certain limestones, then believed to be Hamilton, and due also to the presence of a shell presumably of Marcellus age. The shale had been discovered in the bottom of …

Supplement To The Alumni News Letter, V2n4, October 1, 1918, Iowa State Teachers College

The Alumni News Letter

Contains news of the College and its alumni.

Bird Records During The Past Winter, 1916-1917, In Northwestern Iowa, T. C. Stephens

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The winter of 1916-1917 has shown a number of uncommon things concerning the avifauna of the region under consideration, of which Sioux City is the central station. The notes will be presented in the form of an annotated list of the birds found, but account will not be taken of a number of late migrating species which were seen within the limits of time hereinafter adopted, such, for example, as the Pipit, and others. Winter visitors and summer stragglers only will be listed.

Report Of The Inside Survey [Of The Iowa State Teachers College], State College Of Iowa

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No abstract provided.

Continental Perspective Of American Precambrian Stratigraphy, Charles Keyes

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

To many of the delegates to the Twelfth International Geological Congress who listened to the papers and discussions on Pre-Cambrian problems and who afterwards took part in the Canadian transcontinental excursions into regions where the ancient elastics were displayed in infinite variety, the most valuable feature perhaps, was the field evidences of the amazing taxonomic possibilities which on the American continent the Pre-Cambrian sections were opening up. Few of the travelers had ever seen so deeply into the oldest stratified rocks in so short a time, under such favorable circumstances, or under happier guidance. Some of the participants in the …

A Modern School, Abraham Flexner

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A Modern School is a 23-page occasional paper, written by Abraham Flexner and published in 1916 by The General Education Board. Flexner (1866-1959) was an American educator and education reformer. The occasional paper presented here addresses many of the perceived failings of the public school system circa 1916 and suggests several reforms. The General Education Board was established by John D. Rockefeller in 1903. According to the Rockefeller Foundation, the board was established to aid education in the U.S. without distinction of race, sex or creed, and was active in promoting the public school movement in the early part of …

An Improved Method Of Determining Solubility, W. S. Hendrixson

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

In the continuation of work on acid sodium and acid potassium phthalates as standards in acidimetry and alkalimetry, it seemed desirable to study among other properties, the solubility of these salts.

The Theory Of Binaural Beats - An Experimental Contribution, G. W. Stewart, Harold Stiles

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The experiments here reported were performed in order to secure evidence concerning the cause of the additional maxima which occur in binaural heats. (See G. W. Stewart, Physical Review, Series 2, 3, p. 146, 1914, for a description of the phenomena.) These additional maxima occur at certain phase differences, and the change in these phase differences should depend upon the frequency of the tones, but not upon the frequency of the beats. If the additional maxima are caused by interaural conduction then, as it can be shown, the phase differences should vary as the frequencies. In the accompanying curve the …

Some Well Known Building Materials, Nicholas Knight

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

A specimen of the rock of which the Houses of Parliament, London, are constructed was sent us some months ago, for analysis, by the Honorable John Burns, member of the British Cabinet. We had read in one of the popular magazines that the rock in the Parliament buildings is quite rapidly weathering and crumbling. We desired to make the chemical analysis to ascertain, if possible, the reason for the decay. The rock has a buff color when first quarried or on a fresh fracture, but it is darkened by the London smoke except in some of the protected angles. The …

Is The Appetite Of Swine A Reliable Indication Of Physiological Needs?, John M. Evvard

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The pig is farrowed with a fairly definite set of specifications for development all wrapped up in their mystery in a two to three pound bundle of throbbing, active "stuff." And yet before the pig sought the outer life apart from the womb of his dam, these specifications were enclosed in the minutest bit of protoplasm, the impregnate ovum resulting from the union of two germ cells, one from the male and the other from the female.

On The Lymphatic System Of The Common Rat, Thesle T. Job.

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

From fifty injected specimens, the gross anatomy of the Common Rat has been studied and outlined. The results of the work have further proven the studies of McClure and Silvester on the Lymphatico-venous communications in the Jugulo-subclavian district, and of Silvester on the renal vein communications, and have established two additional communications, the portal vein connection and the ilio-lumbar vein connection. The main circulation and disposition of the lymphatic system has been determined and the need of further knowledge concerning the histology of the lymph nodes, of which there appear to be two types, is pointed out.

Leaching Of The Pleistocene Drifts Of Eastern Iowa, Morris M. Leighton

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The term leaching is applied by glaciologists to that process of dissolving and carrying out in solution by ground water the soluble constituents of the drift, of which lime carbonate is the most notable in the Mississippi Valley. This discussion of that phenomenon is based on observations made by the writer on Pleistocene deposits of the larger part of the east half of Iowa, and in the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois.

Introduced Plants Of The Clear Creek Canon, Colorado, L. H. Pammel

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

It is always interesting to note changes in the flora since the advent of man. With this end in view, the writer made some notes on the plants found in the Clear Creek Canon, Colorado. The first settlement was made in the vicinity of Idaho Springs. A small monument marks the discovery of gold in this region in 1859, on what is known as Chicago Creek. Gold mining has been carried on in this vicinity continuously since.

The Butterflies Of Woodbury County, A. W. Lindsey

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

As I have been interested in the study of Lepidoptera in and about Sioux City for a number of years, I am undertaking this paper with great pleasure and with the sincere hope that it may prove of interest to other scientists in the state. My work has been somewhat handicapped by a lack of sufficient literature, and the fact that I have been unable to consult any authority on the order, so I have been careful to omit any species of whose identity I am uncertain. I have followed the classification and terminology used by Doctor Holland in his …

Indian History Of Winneshiek County, Charles Philip Hexom

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A history of the Winnebago Indians of Winneshiek County in northeast Iowa.

Color Inheritance In The Horse, Edward N. Wentworth

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

While laboratory animals have yielded very nicely to the study of their inheritance of color, the horse still remains a mystery in many of the phases of coat transmission. Hurst and Bunsow have recognized chestnut with the sorrel and liver shades as a true recessive, and Hurst has shown black to be epistatic to this reddish pigment. Bays and browns have been with difficulty separated but have been considered as epistatic to both colors mentioned, while grays and roans seem dominant to the entire series of color. One difficulty which seems to have beset all investigators up to the present …

The Proper Use Of The Geological Name, "Bethany", John L. Tilton

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The proper use of the terms ''Bethany,'' ''Bethany Falls,'' “Winterset" and "Erie" formerly elicited considerable discussion, summarized by Bain in his Guthrie county report. In that report and in the reports on Dallas and Madison Counties the term Bethany applies to the entire Winterset section. In the Decatur County report also Bethany applies to the entire Missouri section found, which is there divided into the following sub-stages.

President's Address: The Mission And Spirit Of The Pure Scientist, Louis Begeman

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The Mission-Michael Faraday has been called the greatest experimental scientist of all ages. No one who has read the biography of this eminent man of science will be inclined to dispute such a statement. Faraday was interested in all phases of scientific thought but devoted his energies particularly to chemical and electrical research. It is no exaggeration to say that he created modern industrial electricity. His experimental researches covered a period of forty-four years. The mere list of the titles of his papers fills several pages in the scientific catalog published by the Royal Society.

Anniversary Address Iowa Academy Of Science, Herbert Osborn

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

There is an old and familiar phrase which reads: To all to whom these presents may come, greeting. I remember how in youthful days this phrase struck me as of peculiar mold and how, without perhaps realizing its antiquity or history. I puzzled as to its full significance and the condition which in some distant era must have given it birth. We need not now attempt to trace its lineage or discover how ancient ambassadors or messengers may have used it in their visits to friend or foe, but I like to fancy for the moment that I am commissioned …

The Iowa, Thomas Foster, William Harvey Miner

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A monograph about the Iowa tribe of Native Americans.

Proceedings Of The Twenty-Fifth Annual Session Of The Iowa Academy Of Science: Staff & Committee Reports; Program; Exchanges In Academy Library, L. S. Ross, G. F. Kay

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

The Problem Of Weeds In The West, L. H. Pammel

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Weediness is an indication of poor farming. It has been said by someone that the farmers of the east do not fear the Canadian Thistle or other aggressive weeds because the better methods of tillage make the fields clean.

Early Historico-Botanical Records Of The Oenotheras, R. R. Gates

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The present paper is an attempt to trace, as far as possible from available data, the history of the Oenotheras, particularly the large-flowered forms, in cultivation. An effort is also made to recognize, as far as this can be done, the precise characters of the various forms which have been figured or described during the last three centuries. Such records of course vary greatly in accuracy and value, for they are contemporaneous with the development of the science of botany itself. Judging from the number of polynomials applied to them by different authors, the Oenotheras would appear to have been …

An Annotated Catalogue Of The Recent Mammals Of Iowa, T. Van Hyning, Frank C. Pellett

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

In forming a collection of the fauna of Iowa for the museum of the Historical Department of Iowa, it was early seen that there was no published lists, and but very meager and scattered records of the mammals of the state. It is this condition of affairs which has prompted the compiling of such at this time.

Historical Sketch Of Early Health Regulations In Iowa, L. S. Ross

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

The immediate cause for the establishment of rules and regulations to protect the health of a municipality or a state, often is the fear of the introduction of some disease that is foreign to the community. Possibly some other disease is common to a community, its effects, even its ravages are matters of common knowledge, but because of that familiarity its presence is expected; the people are accustomed to it. In reality somewhat of a fatalism with reference to it is established, and no rigorous measures are taken against it for defense or for elimination. It seems we fear the …