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Reverend William Graham, Presbyterian Minister And Rector Of Liberty Hall Academy, Robert Goggin Gillespie

Master's Theses

During the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the Reverend William Graham, a Presbyterian Minister, became noted as an educator and minister in Virginia. His dedicated teaching and deep concern for education insured the creation and preservation of Liberty Hall Academy during and after the Revolution; and his devout ministry resulted in revivals which strengthened Presbyterianism in Virginia.

In addition to teaching and preaching, William Graham was a lso interested in the political affairs of the time. He was vitally concerned with the establishment of representative democracy. He felt that through the constitutions and laws which were then being adopted …

Comparative Age And Growth Of Two Darters, Percina Peltata (Stauffer) And Percina Notogramma (Raney And Hubbs), In Virginia, Garnett William Link

Master's Theses

Two closely related species or darters, Percina peltata and Percina notogramma, occur sympatrically in Virginia. An analysis or the number of scale annuli and standard length measurements on 447 peltata and 195 notogrannna revealed four year classes in both species, with very few individuals surviving to III-year class. Both species had approximately 1:1 sex ratios after the first year, in which males were predominant. The growth of both species was approximately the same after the first year; however peltata, the larger species, apparently gains an advantage during the first year which it never loses. The sexes did not …

James Branch Cabell : Laughing Existentialist, George R. Hazelton

Master's Theses

In the history of American literature, there have been numerous authors whose popularity and critical acclaim were long in coming often delayed long past their deaths. Melville, for example, comes immediately to mind. Others have enjoyed a brief notoriety and have then slipped into oblivion for years until their "rediscovery."

One of the prime vehicles for renewed interest in ignored American authors has been the critical consideration of American humorous literature that has flowered during the 1940's, 50's and the 60's, This criticism, given impetus by Walter Blair's Native American Humor (1937)has made Seba Smith, Edgar Wilson Nye, and Finley …

The Role Of The Virginia Elementary School Assistant Principal, Joseph Carlton Jones

Master's Theses

This study will attempt to determine the characteristics and qualifications of the assistant principals of elementary schools of Virginia. Further it will be a goal of this study to determine the characteristics of the position which the assistant principals fill. The report will also seek to determine the responsibility and authority which the respondents exercise in various duty areas.

Attitudes And Beliefs Of Chesterfield County Students Concerning All Police Officials, Benjamin Franklin Lewis

Master's Theses

The problem of this investigation was:

1. What was the attitude of school-age children towards the police and their law enforcement duties?

2. How did these children react towards the police as individuals and to the image they projected?

3. Did the investigator find any change in the attitudes and beliefs of the students as he progressed from one grade or age level to another one and , if so, was the change or difference significant?

4. Was there a difference in the responses of boys as compared to those of girls and , if so, was the difference significant?

A Historical Survey Of Changes In Education In Madison County 1792-1970, John Edward Dwyer

Master's Theses

The author 's purpose for writing this thesis is to show certain changes in the educational development in Madison County from 1792 to 1970.

Cher Antoine : Jean Anouilh's Reflection On His Own Works, Joseph Towler Knox

Master's Theses

This examination of plays by Jean Anouilh will uphold the thesis that Anouilh's most recent play offers an over-all judgment of his own work. Furthermore, while the play itself manages to be rather successful, the conclusion to be drawn from it is that the author has failed to attain success he sought.

Colores In Cicero's Philippics I And Ii, And In Pliny's Panegyricus, Marilyn Jacke Smart

Master's Theses

Color, as a figure of speech, is a small part of the art of rhetoric. The various definitions and uses of color in a selection of ancient writers form the subject of this thesis. The purpose is to present examples of col'o'r'es found in· Philippics I and II of Cicero, and in the·Panegyricus of Pliny the Younger. These examples will be correlated to the demands of the situation of each speaker. Cicero's speeches represent free oratory during the period of the late Republic; Pliny's speech represents epideictic oratory during the Empire. The first chapter of this thesis will serve as …

Proudhonism And The French Working Class, Joan Batten Wood

Master's Theses

Conquering causes and dominant trends attract the attention of many historians while unsuccessful movements are neglected or forgotten. Such is unfortunate in the extreme, for these vanquished ideas are often but submerged in the prevailing trends to emerge in the shape of subtle, formative influences on human psychology and the structuring of society. As socialist thought and movements developed in the latter half of the nineteenth century, two diverging currents were readily distinguishable. One, evolving from the teachings of Karl Marx, moved toward increasing centralization and authoritarianism and has become associated in the public mind with the emergence of the …

Shakespeare's Treatment Of Kingship In The Lancastrian Tetralogy, June Stemen Allman

Master's Theses

The English history play reached its highest peak of development between 1595 and 1599, for it was during these years that Shakespeare wrote the set of four plays covering the historical period from Richard II to Henry V. Each of the plays is a single entity, but in their entirety, they constitute a unified tetralogy concerning the rise of the house of Lancaster. Through the illegal seizure of the crown by Bolingbroke from Richard II to the glorious reign of Henry V, Shakespeare, as an intensely political writer, examines the facets of kingship and its inherent power and authority.

Ring Lardner As Dadaist, Buford Donald Fisher

Master's Theses

This thesis is not a history of Dada, nor does it attempt to trace any direct influences that Ring Lardner may have on current literature. What it does strive to achieve is proper understanding of one facet of Lardner's work.

During the period that the Dad ists were actively trying to establish a new order by destroying the old (and theoretically, Dada itself), Lardner was creating nonsense playlets . His critics, for the most part, could not comprehend his intentions, so this aspect of his work was relegated to obscurity.

Half a century later, Dada has become more relevant historically; …

An Examination Of The Influence Of August Strindberg Upon Eugene O'Neill, Mary Emily Parsons Edwards

Master's Theses

Eugene O'Neill made no effort to hide the names of those writers and literary works which were important to him, and most of his biographers cite the fact that from the commencement of his playwrighting [sic] career O'Neill was influenced by the Swedish writer August Strindberg. O 'Neill himself was, in fact, one of the first to call attention to the kinship between his work and that of his "Master." In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, he indicated that he was delighted to have an opportunity to discuss the debt Ameri­can drama owed to the modern drama of Europe, and, …

The Effectiveness Of Teacher Attention As A Reinforcer In The Conditioning And Extinction Of Classroom Behaviors Of Delinquent Girls, Mary Fulcher Geis

Master's Theses

The present study was designed to assess the effectiveness of a combination of teacher approval for appropriate behavior and teacher ignoring of inappropriate behavior in modifying the classroom behavior of institutionalized juvenile delinquents.In a classroom at a residential facility for female juvenile offenders, baseline recordings of student and teacher behaviors were collected. After baseline, the teacher introduced three rules specifying appropriate student behavior. Next , in a multiple baseline procedure, the teacher approved of the students' appropriate interrupting and ignored their inappropriate interrupting; later, she also approved of the students not engaging in inappropriate talking and ignored their inappropriate talking.The …

Abh Secretor Status Of Cleft Lip/Palate Patients, Richard Lee Baker

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

An Experimenter Variable: Subjects' Perception Of The Psychologist-Clergyman In Psychological Testing, John M. Cade

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The "Detotalization" Of A Teaching Sisterhood And Some Analogous Processes Of Change, Brendan. O'Dowd

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Evidence For Shifting Supraventricular Pacemakers During Sympathetic Stimulation Before And After Sa Node Excision, John M. Geesbreght

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Correlation Matricies Of Nine Socio-Demographic Variables For The Bronx And For Seattle, 1960: An Empirical Test Of The Generality Of Schmid And Tagashira's Variables As Revelatory Of The Structure Of The Large Urban Community, Terrence R. Mcgovern

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Robert S. Abbott's Chicago Defender: A Study In Negro Journalism And Reform, 1910-1920, Henry C. Vander Voort

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Lipid Composition Of The Egg Shell Of The Tick Rhipicephalus Sanguineus, Anthony F. Molinari

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Sequential Processing Deficits In Reading Retardation, Sara Gambrell Tarver

Master's Theses

Doehring (1968) hypothesized that a basic sequential processing deficit underlies specific reading disability. To investigate sequential processing deficits in reading retardation, four tasks involving the reproduction of stimuli in a particular sequence were administered to a group of retarded readers and a group of normal readers matched on age, sex, race, educational opportunity, sociocultural environment, and Non-Language IQ on the CTMM. The normal readers were significantly superior to the retarded readers on the four sequential processing tasks and on two other tests, vocabulary and rhyming. The two groups did not differ significantly on reversals discrimination, perceptual speed, or cumulative learning. …

The Relationship Of The Wechsler Preschool And Primary Scale Of Intelligence To The 1960 Revision Of The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Form L-M, James William Futterer

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Chronic Infections By Human Herpesviruses, Diane Claire Halstead

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Radiographic Interpretation And Cephalometric Analysis Of The Human Fetus In A Posteror-Anterior View: A Pilot Study, O. Richard Infield

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Growth And Enzymatic Characteristics Of Endodontic, Salivary And Fecal Isolates Of Streptococcus Faecalis, Roy M. Naito

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Insulin Complexes And The Radioimmunoassay Of Insulin, Ronald Joseph Przybyla

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Urinary Delta-Aminolevulinic Acid (Ala) Levels In Childhood Lead Poisoning, Ronald H. Abrahams

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Free Gingival Grafts: A Histological Evaluation In Humans, Robert Cannon Bracket

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Anaerobic Actinomyces In Endodontics, Orlando Mun¿¿Oz-Noya

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Normal Operant Movement Of A Diarthrodial Joint, James A. Coglianese

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.