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The Historical Development Of Intercollegiate Track And Field Athletics At South Dakota State University, Russel Lee Schmeichel

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Track and field teams at South Dakota State University have played an important part in the history of this institution and sources should be available describing past achievements on the athletic fields. As a history of intercollegiate track and field teams at South Dakota State University has never before been written, such a history would be an important step in compiling the histories of all the intercollegiate sports at South Dakota State University. Histories of football, basketball, and athletics in general at South Dakota State University have been compiled in the last few years. Therefore, the addition of a history …

The History Of Intercollegiate Athletics At Northwestern College, Richard Wayne Vander Berg

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Historical studies in athletics typically present which confronted coaches and athletic directors in the past. Such studies could be of importance in planning future programs of athletics. “The problem facing education today is the result of a long historical evolution. A vision of the future depends on the understanding and intelligent interpretation of the past.” The data collected and presented in this study should be of interest and value to individuals in the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Department, to Alumni, and to all people interested in the intercollegiate athletic program at Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa. Members of the …

A History Of Intercollegiate Baseball At South Dakota State University, Robert Tanios Bozied

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Baseball, as a sport at South Dakota State University, has had a long and colorful history. From the day the first baseball game was played by the University team in 1885 to the present, South

Dakota State University has made a constant effort toward improving baseball through better staffing, selective scheduling, and a limited recruiting program. The present study describes how baseball grew and developed and also reports interesting highlights that occurred during the period of 1885-1970. The data collected in this study could be of interest and value to individuals in the Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Department, Athletic …

A Rhetorical Analysis Of Selected Speeches Of Senator Birch E. Bayh On The Twenty-Fifth Amendment To The Constitution Of The United States, Michael Lee Brubaker

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Several times in the past, the American public has faced the possibility of having no President because of his illness or death in office. The question arising from this situation is significant not only to citizens of this country but to the citizens of the world community as well. For this reason the writer was prompted to initiate an analysis of the speeches of Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana in his support of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. The analysis of the speeches of a prominent person in our society carries a potential …

Eula Varner : Faulkner's Venus, Ann Ricks Hoover

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A History Of Speech Education At Watertown Senior High School, Watertown, South Dakota, Richard James Reddy

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A historical thesis on the development of speech education at Watertown Senior High School, Watertown, South Dakota, is proposed. The specific purpose is to present, in an orderly fashion, a chronology of the development of curricular and cocurricular speech education from the opening of Watertown Senior High School in 1879 through the 1968-1969 academic school year. A study of the past is often valuable as a guide to the future. Historians from the field of speech recognized this fact when, in 1941, they authorized the compilation of A History of Speech Education in America. Chapters 20 and 21 of that …

A Study Of Mississippi's Training Schools For Juvenile Delinquents, William Scott Greenwell

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A Historical Study Of The Miracle Worker As An Accurate Biographical Drama, Robert Allen Holder

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A History Of Intercollegiate Basketball At South Dakota State University, Vernon L. Schoolmeester

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The purpose of this study was ·to present a history of intercollegiate basketball at South Dakota State University showing the growth of and the changes in the basketball program. The study synthesizes sixty-four years, 1905-1969, of intercollegiate basketball at South Dakota State University. The study begins with Chapter I as the introduction. Chapter II covers the period from 1905 to 1918. Chapters II through XI pertain to the period from 1919 to 1969, during which eleven head coaches served. Chapter XII summarizes intercollegiate basketball at South Dakota State University. The investigation indicates that basketball competition was first started within the …

The Integration Of The Sculptured Angel Motif With Religious Architecture As Influenced By Historical Precedents In France / By Nancy Anita Richardson, Nancy Anita Richardson

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A Historical Analysis And Comparative Classification Of The Use Of Computers In The Typographic Industry, Harvey R. Levenson

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Although developments of the past several decades confirm a revolutionary expansion of graphic arts technology, the printing industry has traditionally been known for its lack of technological progress. It is frequently stated that printing techniques, until recently, were considered to be approximately 50 years behind other industries with regard to technological advancement. Such conditions were particularly true in the area of typesetting. To witness the unprogressive implements being used, all one had to do was visit a typica1 composing room entangled with the awkward mechanisms of conventional Linotypes, Intertypes, and other similar typesetting devices. Such composing systems are steadily becoming …

A History Of Intercollegiate Football At South Dakota State University, James L. Vacura

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The purpose of this study was to present a history of intercollegiate football at South Dakota State University showing the growth and changes in the football program. The scope of the study synthesizes seventy-nine years of intercollegiate football at South Dakota State University from 1889 to 1967. The study begins with Chapter 1 as the Introduction. Chapter II covers the period from 1889 to 1911. Chapter III through Chapter IX pertain to the period from 1912 to 1967, as seven head coaches served during this period. Chapter X consists of the summary of intercollegiate football at South Dakota State University. …

A Critical Exposition Of Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, Jane Edel Lewis

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MolièRe And Medicine, Jack Davis Brown

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Comparison Of The Scope And Effectiveness Of Soviet And United States Foreign Economic Aid Programs, Levon Yeganiantz

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Of the three billion people who presently inhabit the world, about one-third live under communist rule, one-sixth constitute the population of free industrial lands, and the rest, which add up to one-half of the whole live in the poorer, less developed countries, most of which politically are considered to be “uncommitted.” These uncommitted countries, which like to be referred to as the “non-aligned group” and hope to develop one day into a third force, for all the purpose of international politics could be considered as “contested” areas. In one way or another they are trying to achieve at least a …

A History Of Speech Education At Mississippi College, 1826-1950/ By Richard Marlin Tutor, Richard Marlin Tutor

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Feminine Characters In The Novels Of The 1850'S By Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, And Eliot / By Rose Weddell Scherck, Rose Weddell Scherck

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An Investigation Of The Effectiveness Of A Number Of Guidance Services In A Selected School System, David F. Christopher

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A Historical Study Of The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Marlin Edward Peterson

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The objectives of making a study of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are threefold. These objectives are to show the background, development, structure, operation, problems and accomplishments of NATO; to determine whether NATO has fulfilled the general objectives of the treaty; whether NATO has fulfilled the general objectives of the treaty; and to furnish a bibliography and source materials useful as teaching aids for further study of the organization. We are living in a period when people of the West are turning to world organizations, such as NATO, as the hope of the world. A knowledge of what they have …

A Historical Analysis Of The Development Of Track And Field At South Dakota State College 1889-1958, James Elmer Schlender

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South Dakota State College has participated in track and field meets since 1889. In that year South Dakota State, South Dakota University, and Sioux Falls College entered the State Meet. Since then the sport has grown steadily at South Dakota State College. In 1947 South Dakota State College added indoor track to the schedule; and in 1952 the NAIA Track and Field Meet, the AAU Track and Field Meet, and the NCAA Track and Field Meet were added. The author has attempted to collect and record historical data of most summaries, individual and meet records, and available information concerning the …

The American Business Man As Reflected In Popular Periodicals, 1932-1948, Aileen Ricks Hoover

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A History Of Speech Education At The University Of Mississippi,, Ernest Clifford Payne

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The Development Of A Color Tradition In Modern Painting, Lawrence Fielding Edwards

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The Development Of A Color Tradition In Modern Painting, Lawrence Fielding Edwards

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United States Relations With Spain During The American Civil War, Lee Boone Kennett

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The History Of Track And Field In South Dakota High Schools, Donald Hayes Allan

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Track and field meets have been held for high-school athletes in South Dakota since 1903, when Yankton College first sponsored a meet on May 8^th at College Park in Yankton. The sport has grown steadily, and in 1955 the South Dakota High School Athletic Association sanctioned thirty-three conference meets, twenty independently sponsored meets, eight regional meets, three cross country meets, twelve dual-triangular-quad-rangular type meets, three junior-high meets, and one state meet. In addition to this, South Dakota high-school athletes participated in nine out-of-state meets. The author has been unable to find any extensively collected historical data or any assemblage …

Browning's Answer To Higher Criticism, Lillian R. Bickerstaff

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Estimating Commercial Expansion From Irrigation Development In The Oahe Unit, John E. Thompson

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Commercial activity in an economy that is predominantly agricultual is very sensitive to changes in farming conditions. It is generally agreed by businessmen in agricultural areas that the success of their business operation is largely dependent upon the number and prosperity of farmers in their trade areas. For this reason businessmen often encourage proposals to increase the number of forms in their trade areas and support measures designed to improve the economic position of farmers. In South Dakota, where rainfall is considered a limiting factor in agricultural production, considerable interest has been taken in irrigation as a means for increasing …

Methods Of Teaching Typewriting In The Secondary Schools Of Mississippi, Harold Leon Maxwell

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A Historical Study Of Fermat's Last Theorem / By Mary Kathrine Sparkman, Mary Kathrine Sparkman

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