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A Study In Teaching Geography, Richard Walter Collins

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

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Queen Victoria And The Danish War, Helen Eloise Daniel

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

One can find from various sources information dealing with the general causes and results of the Danish War, but the part of Queen Victoria in this war has not been sufficiently emphasize. It was she with her persistent determination to keep England neutral, who decided the course for France and Russia. Had these three powers, France, Russia, and England, entered the war, either on the side of Prussia and Austria, or Denmark, Bismarck's ambitions in the Seven Weeks War and the Franco-Prussian engagement of 1870 would have been shattered before they were quite begun.

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Endoparasitism Of Slaughter-House Animals In The Interstate District Of Kansas, Oklahoma, And Missouri, Harold J. Warren

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Criteria For Selecting Songs For Boys' Glee Clubs In Senior High Schools And A List Of Songs Chosen With Regard For These Criteria, Roy D. Barnes

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A Comparison Of Two Methods Of Approach To The Study Of Bookkeeping, Charles Wilson Piatt

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There are two basic books used in bookkeeping, the journal and the ledger. The journal is sometimes referred to as the book of “original” entry, because in common practice, the first entry of a business transaction is recorded in that book. The ledger is sometimes referred to as the book of “final” entry because the transactions which have already been recorded in the journal are periodically transferred to the ledger, a practice spoken of as “posting.” The ledger is also sometimes referred to as the book of “accounts.” This study compares two methods of teaching bookkeeping, the journal approach and …

A Remedial Program To Improve The Reading Ability Of Grade Pupils, Lewis W. Scott

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A Study Of The Vocational Success Of One Hundred Twenty-Three Graduates Of Sherman Institute, A Vocational High School For Indian Youth, Riverside, California, Robert Charlton Broadlick

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Excerpt: "This study was undertaken for the enlightenment of the public as to the use the Indian is making of his educational opportunity. It attempts to show how Sherman Institute, a vocational high school for Indian youth at Riverside, California, is functioning in the lives of its graduates. [...] In brief, the study seeks to show: where the students come from; the tribal selections of vocations; what courses in the school were the popular courses; the graduate's present work compared with his vocational preparation; ages at graduation; number of years in the institution; and the intelligence quotients of the graduates. …

Character Training In The Elementary School, Eliza J. Dudley Lethridge

All Theses

There is a wide spread need of a clear understanding of what even the unreflective mind believes to be essential in the life and education of each individual. We have talked about character,discipline and education and we have endeavored in countless ways to accomplish the character discipline of the individual. Some of these ways have been wise, others have not.

We must aim by organization and by formal instruction to establish such habits by reaction on the moral side as to establish the conduct of the individual as a citizen. This moral phase of our education seeks from each pupil …

A Study Of The Educational Program In Kansas In Relation To The State's Ability To Support Public Education, Glenn C. Archer

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

This thesis will deal primarily with one phase of the social problem just raised and may be stated thus, "The Educational Program in Kansas in Relation to the State's Ability to Support Public Education." It is the writer's purpose to present the facts relative to the ability of the state of Kansas to support public education. After these have been presented we will be in a better position to propose more intelligently the better policy to pursue in respect to education in our state. The problem of taxation in the state of Kansas is receiving more attention now than ever …

Analysis Of Carlyle's Sartor Resartus And Heroes And Hero-Worship From The Standpoints Of Diction, Mechanics, And Style, Iona Elvira Jones

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

This study, as the title of the thesis suggests, proposes to give an analysis of Carlyle's diction, mechanics, and style as found in the two essays, Sartor Resartus and Heroes and Hero-Worship. An interest was aroused in Carlyle's essays through a graduate course in English, Nineteenth Century Prose Writer. The writer has selected the essays, Sartor Resartus and Heroes and Hero-Worship, for subjects of study, for they are probably highly representative of the author's works as a whole.

To prevent any misunderstanding of terms, it may be desirable at this time to set forth the definition of these …

A Comparative Study Of The Four-Year Teaching Graduates Of Indiana University And Indiana State Teachers College, Oral Terrell

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Influence Of High School Chemistry And Physics Upon College Chemistry, Elwin Frank Miller

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The earliest college in this country were organized and operated under private control to give special preparation for some of the professions, particularly the ministry. Even as the colleges, so were the secondary schools organized and operated under private control. Their purpose differed only in the fact that they gave a special preparation for continued study in the college, and no thought was given to those people who might have children to be educated and yet could not afford to send them to the private institutions. [...] The high-school chemistry should be a preparatory course for further study in the …

A Study Of Delinquency In Taxation In School District Ninety-Five, Crawford County, Kansas, 1910-1931 : Its Causes, Effects, And Remedial Suggestions, Donald N. Tira

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This study was made to determine the amount of tax obligations which have not been met in school district ninety-five between the years 1910 to 1931; also to present a summary of these findings to show the causes and effects of the obtained results on school district ninety-five and to suggest a possible solution.

This study reveals that the assessed valuation of school district ninety-five rose from $283,650 in 1910 to $1,002,385 in 1927. It increased approximately $100,000 each year from 1910 until 1920. From 1920 on the rise was small until 1927 where it reached its peak. In 1928 …

A Study Of The Quality And Speed Of Writing Of A Group Of Left Handed Children, Mildred Skourup

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

An interest in the phenomena of handedness is by no means new. Many investigations have been carried out with the purpose of answering the numerous and various questions that have been asked about the relation of man's hands to each other. Almost as many different conclusions have been reached concerning the experiments mentioned above. Only a very few of the questions have been given an unanimous answer.

A History Of The Progressive Party In Kansas, George H. Callis

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This thesis has been written with the aim of making it a teaching instrument in the social sciences. An attempt has been made to cover the span of American History treating briefly the liberalizing forces. The author has used much of the text of the thesis in his classes in American History, Kansas History, World History, American Problems, Civics, Economics, and Sociology. The narrative of the development of the liberal forces in government adds much to the vividness of teaching because of its setting. It is recent enough in point of time to belong to the present era and helps …

The Place Of The Attorney General In Minnesota School Law, Otto Haack

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Elementary Educational Reform In England 1900-1923, Harvey John Walch

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A Method Of Organizing Subject Matter In The New Course Of Study In Agriculture For Minnesota, William Everett Dowdell

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Health And Physical Education, Kenneth M. Radick

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to show, the progress which is being made to co6rdlnate Health Education with Physical Education in secondary schools throughout the United States. The organization plans of several of the largest cities have been secured and studied and are herewith presented to persons interested in latest developments in Health and Physical Education. One of the latest trends in education is the inclusion of Health Education within the general term of Physical Education. The material for this study has been gathered from periodical publications, texts on physical education and from data secured from a set of …

Taxonomix Study Of The Betulaceae And The Fagaceae Of Milwaukee County And Vincinity, Chalres A. Guenther

Bachelors’ Theses

The study of the Betulaceae and the Fagaceae in Milwaukee County and the immediate vicinity, taxonomically and from the standpoint of distribution presents an interesting problem. The family Betulaceae (Birch Family) comprises 11 species and 3 varieties, 8 species of which are arborescent. One genera is sometimes referred to as being arborescent in this vicinity, but since the author does not consider a lower growing shrub arborescent, he has excluded it from the classification of trees but has in the following discussion treated it as a shrub. The family Fagaceae (Beech Family) which comprises 8 species of which one is …

Oral Reading In The Intermediate Grades, Mildred Gudex

Bachelors’ Theses

By silent reading we mean the single process of getting the thought from the printed page; by oral reading we mean the getting and the giving of the thought from the printed page. Oral reading is, accordingly, a much more complex process than silent reading. Silent reading involves the recognition of the symbol - that is, the word - and the as sociation of the word with the idea or getting the thought. Oral reading involves the recognition of the symbol; the as sociation of the word with the idea - getting the thought; and the vocal utterance of the …

The Teaching Of Oral Language In Grades I To Viii, Elizabeth M. Weisend

Bachelors’ Theses

The work of promoting good speaking and of obtaining accuracy in the expression of thought is one of the most important aims to be accomplished in teaching. The ability of the child to use accurately his mother-tongue in speaking is of great social and cultural value. It helps him to adapt himself socially to his environment and to think and express himself clearly. It gives him confidence in himself and thereby, ease in appearing before an audience, through his fluency in conversation gained by an ever-increasing vocabulary and a knowledge and use of correct English.

Lindbergh And The Press, Catherine Welch

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to present a study of the relations between Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and the American press in the recent kidnaping of his baby son.

Collegiate And Professional Football, John Sisk

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to draw a comparison between collegiate and professional football. Special emphasis is given to playing condition, attendance, future of both games and criticism's of each.

Mathematical Short Cuts And Checks, Leon Schram

Bachelors’ Theses

A computer naturally should be the master of short cuts and methods for checking his work. The latter is perhaps of more importance than the former because one must be able to show his employer that he knows that his work is correct.

The Native And Cultivated Gymnospersm Of Eastern Wisconsin, Mary Stapleton

Bachelors’ Theses

Since the late years of the nineteenth century, botanists have grouped all seed-bearing plants into two main divisions, those with no seed cases, that is with naked seeds, end those the seeds of which are enclosed in a husk, pod, or other covering. The former are Gymnosperms; the latter Angiosperms.

Social Studies In Grades One Through Six, Orville William Gesell

Bachelors’ Theses

The Purpose, Procedure and Scope of the Study PURPOSE. The purpose of this study is to present to the teachers of the primary and elementary grades a social study course which will attempt to give them definite help by means of (1) organized units' (2) time allotment; (3) teacher and pupil references; (4) suggested activities; (5) laboratory equipment; and (6) sources of illustrative material.

An Experiment In Remedial Reading In A Second Grade, Harriett M. Gaffney

Bachelors’ Theses

Every teacher finds a great range of capacities and abilities in her room. She finds that although some children comprehend what they read, they read much too slowly. She finds that others may read rapidly but not get the thought from what they read. She finds that some may e able to follow printed directions well but are inefficient in getting the complete thought from narrative material.

The New School In The Upper Grades, Selma F. Tonn

Bachelors’ Theses

The chief equipment a good teacher needs is a sympathetic understanding of child nature and child interests, and common sense or tact in the choice and use of methods of teaching suited to them. Anyone who has often seen the happy eager faces of all the children in a class of thirty-five or more can speak with authority. To discover the particular interests of each child; to choose those which have broad, various, and valuable educational opportunities, which can serve as ’’leads” to further interests and wider experience; to give children experience in living as it is natural to them …

Individuality And Provisions Made For It In The Primary Grades, Justine Kupecky

Bachelors’ Theses

The writer always has felt that the school can never rise to its best until it provides for the fullest possible development of each individual child. A subject has been selected so that a clearer understanding of the changes going on toward the fulfillment of this ideal may be had.

An attempt to defend individuality has been made and by giving many aims of modern education, it has been shown that individuality is the goal of all education. Facts have been gathered to show why modern education is not reaching its goal.

What has actually been done for the individuality …