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Alice Meynell: Her Literary Ideas And Her Relation To The English Essay, Gena Pauline Principati

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis is offered as a study of Alice Christina Meynell, her literary ideas in regard to prose, and her relation to the English essay. For the most part the illustrations have been selected from material which is available. Several of the quotations are contained in her unpublished works; some other quotations could not be attributed to any author, as they were spoken by Alice Meynell to her intimate friends. This paper was prepared after an examination of the available prose work of Mrs. Meynell and after reading several articles and books and chapters in other books on criticism.

Health Programs In Relation To The Doctor And Patient, Robert F. Mac Beath

Bachelors’ Theses

In this complicated and swift moving life we lead today, sickness and its too oft companion death, play an important and seemingly unavoidable part. Babes in arms, children, the more rapid youth, the middle aged in their established march, and the faltering old; all are the target of the encroachments of sickness and few or none escape it in their lifes journey. These encroachments may range all the way from a slight inconvenience to those ailments which cause death either ultimately or immediately. The list of these diseases known to medical science in their names alone fill a large book. …

The History And Treatment Of The English Drama During The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries, Leonard Francis Sommers

Bachelors’ Theses

Thia chapter will deal with the earlier sources of information about the dramatic companies. The provincial towns of England are the best sources of information about the English companies of drama. Reference to the drama usually appeared in the Court books of the corporation, also in the account books, or even letter-books. The reason for this is not hard to understand, for when a dramatic company visited a provincial town, their first duty was to present their license to the Mayor and also to his court of Aldermen, so that they could obtain permission to play. It is obvious therefore, …

The Italo-Ethiopian Dispute, Elmer A. Seefeld

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the purpose of the author in this thesis to present a summary of the facts concerning the relations between Italy and Ethopia from their beginning in 1870 to the present year, 1936.

How To Advertise A Retail Store, Jean Schwartz

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to determine by a series of interviews with the agents in charge of retail store promotion, how many of the 43 possible advertising media are used by Milwaukee retailers and why the selected ones are chosen, thus determining what are the most effective ways of advertising a retail store in Milwaukee as discovered by Milwaukee advertisers. It is not the aim of this thesis to select one medium as being the proper one, in preference to all others, but rather to determine what are now being used by the various classes of stores.

The Hyperbola, Mary Aquin Miller

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis is by no means an exhaustive presentation of the subject "The Hyperbola" or of the many and varied properties connected with this conic section and its associated parts. The aim in writing this paper has been to give a general outline of the history of the development of the hyperbola, to show the various constructions of it, and, with this as a basis, to show the relation between the hyperbola and its connected parts.

A Study Of Tenement House Laws Of New York And Wisconsin And A Survey Of Enforcement, S. W. Swinkin

Bachelors’ Theses

No reading on the subject of socialism or laissez-faire can give one quite the sort of knowledge which comes to one who day by day watches or assists in the enforcement of a splendid body of law like tenement house laws of the respective states out of this the fiery radical will come, from even a limited observation a sobered and more conservative man. Even the timid conservative will gain new courage to grapple with new problems. For that one may be considered dull if he has not learned how carefully, with great patience and long study each new advance …

Oliver Goldsmith And His Relation To The Theory Of British Drama In The England Of His Time, Willella Stats

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to discover the relationship of Oliver Goldsmith to the sentimental movement in progress in the England of his time. The author has endeavored to present a clear picture of the times with reference to the theatres, the type of audiences, and popular tastes. In a general way the writer has gone into the period before Goldsmith, which is known as the period of the Restoration and before that into the age of Puritanism. Under the heading of Restoration Drama is included a discussion of the Comedy of Manners and its chief adherents, Etherege, Wycherly, …

The Social Aspects Of Modern Housing Problems, Joyce Muriel Loeper

Bachelors’ Theses

After the Industrial Revolution conditions arose in towns and cities which called for legislation to stop further conditions like them. This was bad housing. Laws were passed which restricted housing and called for better conditions in houses already built. Further restriction on housing came through city, town, regional planning and zoning. Just how this came about is taken up in detail in the thesis.

The Growth And Development Of Gemmae Of Marchantia Polymorpha L., Theodore F. Van Aacken

Bachelors’ Theses

Marchantia was discovered and studied around the middle of the seventeenth century. It was named Marchantia in 1683 by Jean Marchant in memory of his father. Later when Linnaeus completed his great work, Das Pflanzenreich (1786), he named the plant Marchantia polymorpha.

The Democratic Party In Wisconsin, Mary M. Lawler

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to show that despite the fact that in Wisconsin the Democratic party has been in power for so few years compared to the Republican party, they are still a prominent party, working for the progress of the state and are worthy of study. In order to accomplish this I have discussed briefly the early history of the Democratic party in the United States. I have then touched upon its very early life in the territory of Wisconsin and its importance in the early years of statehood. I have taken, rather than the entire span …

The Negro In Milwaukee, Ray Wachs

Bachelors’ Theses

As little is written concerning the negro in Milwaukee, and statistics are few and widely scattered, the writer felt there was a need of compiling the important available data at the present time. With this in mind the writer searched many public records and sources of information, but due to a lack of classification not nearly as much could be found as was expected.

The negro population is becoming a more and more important part of the population of Milwaukee. For this reason the writer hopes that soon a better system of record will be adopted by the various city …

The United States And Freedom Of The Seas During The World War, Donald H.G. Kuntz

Bachelors’ Theses

This paper is concerned primarily with the difficulties encountered by the United States while attempting to assert the international rights of her citizens and her ships upon the high seas during the years 1914-1918, when the situation was rendered so complicated by the machinations of belligerents engaged in a great World War.

The Ratification Of The Federal Constitution By The State Of New York, Mary Francis Tully

Bachelors’ Theses

In 1870 there were two distinct political parties in the State of New York. In general these parties consisted of men who favored a strong centralized government and those men who desired the state government to be supreme.

Literature In The Primary Grades, Vera M. Vogel

Bachelors’ Theses

Literature has had a long struggle to win and hold a place in elementary education upon the basis of its own intrinsic worth. its unique and independent value is not yet fully recognized in the curriculum, especially in the primary grades. The rapid development of children’s literature in recent years and the more liberalized curriculum of today constitute two factors in the increased need on the part of teachers for guidance and practical help in the field of juvenile literature. The purpose of this study is not only to present the fundamental factual material on the subject, but also to …

Allied War Propaganda In The United States During The World War (1914-1916), Wilma H. Sondermann

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the purpose or the author in this thesis to show how propaganda helped get the United States into the World War and how thl'ou.gh this propaganda hate was mobilized against the enemy, the enemy was demoralized, and triend.ah1p cemented between allied and neutral countries.

Plays For Young Children, Edna S. Soper

Bachelors’ Theses

The dramatic instinct is a prime force in civilization; the need to give vent to pent-up emotion, to express joy of living, to put in material form the ideas that vex his spirit, has driven man to imitate and to create. Primitive people expressed this need in songs and dances. Civilization restrains and suppresses the voluntary expression of emotion that seeks outlet in various ways. But it cannot be wholly stifled. Man feels the need to seek excitement and emotional experience sometimes in the mere satisfaction of curiosity. This is a response to a need and desire felt everywhere and …

The Ancient Egyptian Religion, Marion Mercedes Mcgarry

Bachelors’ Theses

Since it is a known fact that in the case of the ancient Egyptians religion penetrated their innermost life, it must he obvious that to describe their religion is, therefore, to tell the most Important part of all ancient Egyptian history.

The American Short Story From 1925 Through 1930, James A. Papin

Bachelors’ Theses

Reaction from the war, from its hysteria, its horror, brought on changes in morals and manners. The bars were down. Hide bound morality was considered old fashioned. Abandon was the watch word of the age. Old standards, accepted during the nineties, were cast aside, and recklessness, spice, zest, replaced conservative conduct. As the height of the change was reached in the latter twenties, the reaction took a definite form. What had been reaction for reactions sake, now became a crystallized reaction with definite limits. "If our younger writers were simply content to raise a standard of revolt against tradition, their …

The Anatomy Of The Oyster, M.J. Rohlinger

Bachelors’ Theses

The phylum Mollusca manifests the following characteristics: bilateral symmetry; three primary germ layers; free-living and sessile; marine and fresh-water; a shell modified to form either a bivalve or a univalve which gives an appearance of segmentation due to rings of growth or arrangement of certain parts of the shell as is seen in the class Amphineura, this is only apparent metamerism because the Mollusca are considered to be unsegmented animals; a coelom poorly developed; a foot; a mantle cavity; well developed digestive, circulatory, excretory, and reproductive systems. When one inspects a Chiton, an oyster, a snail, an octopus, or a …

History Of The Progressive Party In Wisconsin, Robert Thomas Webster

Bachelors’ Theses

Many years ago when the western portion of the United States was still undeveloped and the land was only open to the braver hearts, there arose a group of men who had suffered from the aftermath of the Civil War. After that war, like after so many others, there were reactions that, if uncontrolled, would rend asunder the whole structure of American civilization. The conditions that gave birth to these third party movements were the condition of agriculture and the desire for silver. The men of the west had fought in the Civil War and had returned home to find …

The British-Italian-Ethiopian Dispute, Helen Dorothy Cutting

Bachelors’ Theses

Early in October, 1935 Italy began a war of conquest which had been announced sometime before. The general purposes of it were known to the foreign offices for about a year. However, nothing was done by the great powers or the League of Nations to drive home to Mussolini the fact that he would be met with organized resistance. Mussolini came to the conclusion that he would be showered with resolutions of disapproval and then allowed to proceed.

True, the League did not stop the war. Instead of forbidding Mussolini to move his army to Ethiopia by closing the Suez …

Humanitarianism And Social Reform In The Novels Of George Gissing, Jeanne Antoine

Bachelors’ Theses

Today when the improvement of slum districts is a government aim both in Europe and America the study of the slums of London in the late nineteenth century through the eyes of George Giesing is most apt.

Topographical Anatomy Of Ostrea Virginica, Harry J. Barnett

Bachelors’ Theses

The oyster is important for at least three reasons. First, it is important to the zoologist; second, it is a food which has developed million dollar enterprises; and third, the oyster is a domestic resource for the pearl and its allied industries. The oyster is a bivalve Mollusk, having symmetry in the larval stage but losing it in the adult stage. It has one large adductor muscle, somewhat posterior from the ligament which holds both valves together. The left valve forms a deeper pit than the right one as it is in the left valve that the oyster lies. It …

Recent Rural Population Trends In The Middle West, Harriet E. Basting

Bachelors’ Theses

Many and varied are the political, social, and economic problems facing the people of America today. Not the least among these questions is that of the population. The change of the country from a land of rural inhabitants to one of city dwellers, presents many challenging opportunities for study.

This thesis is written because of a desire and interest in doing some research work in the fields of sociology and economics. It is a study of the rural population and its trends in the United States, with stress being on the states in the Middle West.

Significance Of The Age If Augustus, Alfred E. Ehrig

Bachelors’ Theses

It is our purpose to take the reader back to the Age of Augustus the Golden Age of the Roman Empire, and show the influence which Augustus had on this period. We shall see Rome rise from a disorganized state to an empire which had the highest civilization then known to man.

Mechanism Vs. Vitalism, William Francis Hegner

Bachelors’ Theses

A problem that had always interested philosophers and scientists was the problem of life; in spite of the development of knowledge during the past centuries, men were apparently not advancing in a very noticeable degree beyond the explanation of Aristotle in regard to this leading issue. Men had always recognized the difference between living and non-living matter; but were not agreed as to the difference of differences. In trying to find the true difference many questions were asked on each side by students of living and non-living matter. The student of life asked: What were its characteristic revelations? What were …

Superstition In Rural America, Paul J. Hebard

Bachelors’ Theses

Superstition may be divided into four classes: 1) improper worship of the true God; 2) idolatry; 3) divination; and 4) vain observances including magic and occult arts. It is with the last type of superstition that this thesis deals and under this heading are included all those "beliefs and practices which, at least by implication, attribute supernatural or preter­natural powers for good or evil to causes evidently incapable of producing the expected effects."

The Henological Argument For The Existence Of God, Paul Noelke

Bachelors’ Theses

If "only the fool says in his heart there is no God," the contemporary world is harboring countless simpletons. Where decades ago only a minority or rancid skeptics and confused "philosophers" admitted their agnosticism and atheism, today sincere people, as well as the more egregious moderns, are quite frank in proclaiming their disbelief in a Supreme Being. Syndicated newspaper columns, novels, radio addresses, and even political speeches take up the cudgels of the new humanism ·where the modern philosophical treatises leave off. The widely read Mr. Walter Lippmann states that the common man "feels that those who claim to be …

Aeneas's Trip Through The Lower World, Walter Kovaleski

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to trace Aeneas’s trip through the lower world, to clarify the allusions that are referred to in the original trip of Aeneas as portrayed by Vergil, and to identify the characters that are seen by Aeneas as he makes his way through Hades. Since Vergil wrote his Aeneid for a pagan audience, who knew the allusions that he mentioned in his account of Aeneas’s journey, there was no need for him to go into details about some of the events and characters found in the Sixth Book of the Aeneid; but to a …