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Basketball: A Scientific Study Of The Marquette University Squad For The Season Of 1934-35, Ray C. Morstadt

Bachelors’ Theses

A scientific study of basketball has been carried on at Marquette University for the past four years under the able guidance of Coach William S. Chandler. During that time a great deal of valuable data has been uncovered which has aided considerably in the development of recent Marquette teams.

Whither Marriage?, Marguerite Irmgard Reuss

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis has a threefold aim. I. The writer considers whether marriage as opposed. to promiscuity is necessary for the stability of the family and or the nation. II. The writer then aims to decide in the light of experience which theory of marriage among selected pre-Christian. peoples was the best from the standpoint of family and national stability. III. The writer then aims to assay modern theory of marriage to determine whether it corresponds with the theory of marriage found in Part II to be the best for family and national stability.

Methods Of Choosing And Supervising The Staffs Of High School Newspapers In Public High Schools Of Milwaukee County, Margaret Isabelle Paulus

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to discover the methods employed by public high schools of Milwaukee county in supervising and choosing the staffs of the school newspapers. Consideration was given to the matter of scholastic requirements, methods of try outs for staff membership, advancement among staff members, requirements for and methods of choosing editors, training in journalistic writing and editing, and the type and extent of supervision given by the teacher serving as adviser for the paper. Some consideration has been given to the type of paper in each school, its size and frequency of publication, so as to …

A Comparison Of The Caffeine Content Of Various Coffees, Emil J. Petrusek

Bachelors’ Theses

Coffee must be rated as one of the most important commodities in the commercial world due to the statistics or output and consumption. There are various brands and kinds of coffee produced by the different growers and roasters. Now to sell the brands, the various concerns base their advertising upon the flavor and price of the coffee. It is a fact that the flavor of coffee is in some way affected by the caffeine present. One popular brand is advertised as decaffeinated, that is, the caffeine has been removed. Confronted with these facts, it occurred to the author to test …

The History Workbook, Helen Porter

Bachelors’ Theses

The aim of this thesis is to determine whether or not the use of the workbook is justified, and if so in what a good technique consists. Several workbooks have been examined in this attempt, and books and magazines secured from the Milwaukee Public Library and the Marquette University Library have furnished the writer with much of the material used.

The Extraction Of Tantalum And Columbium From Tantalite, Stanley P. Wisniewski

Bachelors’ Theses

In the summer of 1932, the Milwaukee Public Museum, sent an expedition to the Bad Lands and Black Hills of South Dakota, under the direction of Dr. Ira Edwards, Curator of Geology in that institution. It was at this time that the author, a member of this group, while studying the pegmatites of the Black Hills, became interested in the tantalum-columbium bearing minerals of that region, namely tantalite and columbite. At that time the writer made a detailed mineralogical study of these two minerals, as well as a thorough investigation of their occurrence in that region. In the fall of …

A Survey Of Publications In The Junior High Schools Of Milwaukee And Suburbs, Nina M. Polcyn

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the publications in the junior high schools of the city of Milwaukee and suburbs. In brief, the history, the methods of assigning news, the selection of staffs, the instruction in journalism, the supervision by the adviser are included. The thesis portends to be a survey of the junior high school publications as revealed by the publications themselves and by the advisers. The dissertation further considers the type of publication, the number of subscriptions, the frequency of publication and whether or not the publication is self-supporting. While there have been innumerable studies treating …

Significant Phases Of Social Insurance In The United States, Arline Ritter

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to show the important part that social insurance is playing in our country today. The purpose, problems, and some of the principal divisions are discussed as well as the history and recent legislation.

Editorial Comment On European Diplomacy As Found In Leading English Periodicals During The Two And One Half Years Immediately Preceding The World War, Harold A. Schwartz

Bachelors’ Theses

The five publications analyzed for this thesis represented the various types of British Journals of opinion, presenting a fair, cross - section of that particular branch of the English Press. Each publication had its own particular editorial policy, reader class and methods of approach; and accordingly the international problems of the period were treated differently by them.

Closing Chapter Of The Campaign For Philippine Independence, Jose S. Araneta

Bachelors’ Theses

This paper proposes to present a brief resume of the passage of the Philippine Independence legislation from records and comments gathered from the pages of four outstanding American journals, three of them being weeklies, namely, The Literary Digest, The Nation, and the New Republic. The fourth, a monthly magazine, is the erstwhile Outlook and Independent, but now bearing the new name of the New Outlook.

The Rise And Fall Of The London Patent Theaters: Drury Lane And Covent Garden, Robert J. Buer

Bachelors’ Theses

"There must be a reason." How many times has the reader heard that phrase? It has become so popular that a national manufacturer has adopted it as a slogan tor his product. The idea behind the phrase is that everything must have an excuse for its existence; if it did not, it would not exist. And so it is with this thesis.

It is the object of this paper to trace the rise. of the English national theater (as represented by Drury Lane and Covent Garden) from its inconspicuous beginning to its peak in the eighteenth century and then to …

A Partial Study Of Anti-Social Influences Of The "Agony" Column Of Personal Items In The London Times, L. James Bormann

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to present facts which may in some measure indicate the possible existence of an anti-social influence exerted by the column of personal items which appears daily in the classified advertising section of the London Times and which is commonly known as the "Agony" column.

No attempt will be made in this thesis to establish definitely the exact measure of this influence, since to do this with any degree of accuracy would be impossible in the absence of an adequate knowledge of the total conditions which accompanied publication of the items in the column. An …

Sensitivity Of Curcumin As An Organic Reagent In Testing For Beryllium, James W. Bookhamer

Bachelors’ Theses

For many years the analytical chemist avoided by design or more probably by accident the general use of organic chemicals in his work. Some few of them he accepted as a matter of course, and perhaps without much thought of their organic nature. In qualitative analysis he used chloroform as a solvent in testing for bromine and iodine. A few indicators were in common use, but organic chemicals were used but little in analytical work. It was not until the twentieth century that their use in analytical procedures received any worthwhile attention. Since then they have rapidly come to the …

A Determination Of Nicotine In Tobacco, Raymond L. Boelter

Bachelors’ Theses

Nicotine or nicotin, named from Jean Nioot who introduced the tobacco plant into France in 1565 is the characteristic alkoloid of the tobacco plant, Nicotiana tobacum, in all parts of which it occurs to the extent of from six tenths of one per cent, to four and eight tenths per cent.

Social Effects Of Community Recreation: A Study Of Two Selected Localities, Ruth Marie Festge

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is· to present study of the social effects of community recreation. Two localities have been selected, namely Waukesha and Kenosha, as examples of community playground program, and a more fully developed year round recrea­tion program. The organization, purposes, values and activities of recreation in general are discussed. A survey of the community recreational activities in the cities of Waukesha and Kenosha is then presented, and their value to their communities is assayed.

The Significance Of The Influence Of The American One-Act Play On The Little Theatre, John H. Hennessey

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis shall not be t.o prove, that the American one-act play is the only possible type of drama that has a tendency toward a national drama, but rather to bring to light that the American one-act play, through the influence, which it exerted on the Little Theatre, is the driving force, which strives toward this national dramatic movement. That there is a laxity of and a need for a folk­ drama and folk-theatre is taken as an indisputable fact.

The one-act playwrights and their one-act plays are discussed, not from the aspect of a criticism of …

The Jeffersons (Biographical), Netsa Kotrodimos

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the purpose of this thesis to give a brief biographical summary of the Jefferson family who for years dominated the stage. Although there has been a considerable amount of data published concerning the various members of this family, there is a lack of biographical material which is most necessary to this present study.

Charles A. Beard And The Rise Of American Civilization, Mary Jane Jeffrey

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the purpose of this thesis to analyze the work of Charles A. Beard, historian of American civilization with special reference to the American Revolution, the Constitutional Convention, Slavery and the Civil War, the Rise of Big Business, the Development of the West, the Spanish American War and the World War. This is accomplished through the discussion of certain topics taken from Rise of American Civilization, Vol. I and II and from Economic Interpretation of the Constitution.

The Purification Of Coffee Wax By Means Of A Special Extractor Followed By A Dialysis Process, John Dobrojevic

Bachelors’ Theses

This work was performed with the intention of devising a method where-by true wax could be isolated from a conglomerated mixture called coffee wax.

The Significance Of The Thirty Years War, Robert E. Dobyns

Bachelors’ Theses

The great European conflict from which the following thesis derives its title had a complicated origin, an unprecedented range, and far reaching consequences. The story of its origin reaches back into a period before the actual occasion of the conflict. Whether The Thirty Years War can be regarded as a war for political supremacy or as the inevitable result of deep seated religious differences not to be settled by ambiguous parchment compromises.- or finally as the cautiously prepared opportunity and still more cautiously allowed to mature by the farsightedness of France. We do know that the war gradually absorbed into …

The Inheritance Of Some Human Traits, Robert H. Crawford

Bachelors’ Theses

Although the proper collection and observation of necessary data with reference to the application of Mendel's laws of heredity to man has been brief, it has disclosed evidence significant enough to make it appear highly probable that many of the characters in man follow these laws as well as do the traits of lower animals.

The object of this thesis was to determine whether or not certain human traits were inherited, the mode of their transmission from parent to offspring, and, if possible, the establishment of any proof of linkage in the human line.

The Grignard Reagents: Their Preparation, Flora Cooke

Chemistry Honors Papers

This 14 page thesis examines various methods for the preparation of the Grignard reagent.

An Experimental Study Of The Written Composition Of Prairie View College Freshman Students Of 1934-35, Merle Louise Anderson

All Theses

This thesis is concerned with the study of errors in the written compositions of Prairie View College Freshman students.

The problem of English usage is found in all of the classes of the College. This study has been made in an effort to strengthen some of the weaknesses of the present freshman class, and finally those of the entire student body in usage.

Many of the students have come from schools in which they got very poor foundations in English. Upon entering college it is revealed by the administration of placement tests that there is a great need for improvement …

The Effects Of Anesthetics On Respiration In Earthworks (Lumbricus Terrestris), Doris C. Rayford

All Theses

Within recent years respiratory studies have come to be of increasing significance and Investigations along this line have resulted in many contributions. In the previous studies, emphasis has been placed upon the effects of narcotics, cyanides, oxygen tension, and so forth, on oxygen consumption. In a general sense, the respirator., studies that have Seen made represent a wide variety of Interest in this problem. The investigations of Warburg (1021) on the action of narcotics on cell respiration led to the formation of the general theory of narcosis. Helff (1923) studied the oxygen consumption of tadpoles undergoing precocious metamorphosis following treatment …

A Survey Of Old Age Pensions: Their Origin, Growth And Present Status, Mildred S. Swenson

Theses and Dissertations

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A Survey Of Utah's Program For Carving Out The Ten Point Plan Of The State Council For Crime Prevention, W. Howard Kunz

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The study is to determine what is being done in the schools of Utah to contribute to the realization of the Ten Point Plan, proposed by the Utah State Council for prevention of crime, through social education.

A History Of Wool Manufacturing As It Is Related To Wool Marketing In Utah, George Elwood Spencer

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

It has been advocated by many sheep raisers and individuals interested in the wool industry of Utah, that wool manufacturing should become a leading industry of this state. Factors which seemingly corroborate such contentions are readily apparent. Utah's annual wool clip ranges between eighteen and twenty-five million pounds of wool.(1)*. The state is located in the center of the Western range states where the bulk of the higher quality wool of this country is grown. A part of the marketing costs of freight, commission charges to a limited extent, and high storage costs could be decreased. These savings would result …

Chemical And Physical Considerations Of Carbohydrates, Flora Cooke

Chemistry Honors Papers

This 13 page thesis examines chemical and physical considerations of carbohydrates.

Inheritance Of Resistance To Three Physiologic Forms Of Bunt In Ridit X Utah-Kanred Cross, Muhammad Ibrahim Shah

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Bunt is a serious disease of wheat found in nearly all weat-growing countries of the world. In India the disease is more severe in the northern provinces than in the central and southern provinces as the temperature during planting time is favorable to the germination of the fungous growth in the northern part. In the central or southern parts, this is not the case. In the United States this disease causes heavy annual loss. The amount of smut in a field, or the percentage of smutted heads, is generally taken as an index of the reduction in yield or loss …

A Study Of Supplementary Reading Of Entering Freshmen At Prairie View College For 1933 And 1934, Margaret Lucile Lee

All Theses

To discover the reading interest of students as to the number of books read, the types of books preferred and to get an idea about the quality and quantity of books they were exposed to.