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A Proposed Course In General Science For The Portola High School, Homer Dewitt Hildebrant

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis the author's first aim is to not forth a science course that will awaken the students of this high school to a realization of the significance end value of their environment, and thereby stimulate their interest and appreciation of things scientific. We are living in the midst of a great scientific age, and application of scientific knowledge will continue more and more to dominate our life. It is essential then that our high school boys and girls should learn how to adapt themselves to this life of scientific application, and be able to interpret their own environment …

Articulation Of Junior And Senior High School Curricula, Belle Joachims

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Our American school system with its distinction between elementary and secondary schools grew out of European tradisione. The history of secondary education in America abone that there have been three periods of development, each characterized by a dietinot type of school. As our colonial policies were shaped by Europeans, naturally our schools were organized to confora with the European institutions; and the Latin grammar school was the dominant institution for secondary education in American until the middle of the eighteenth century. During the Revolutionary period there was a tendency to turn from the school fostering social distinction to one more …

A Study Of The Vocational Placement Of Pupils Of The Elementary And High Schools, Robert Louie Colthart

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

There was a time when people could go West and become empire builders; when there was little competition, but the resources which nature provided so abundantly no longer exist in their vastness. Pioneers and adventurers have skinned the cream of these luxuries. It is necessary now for science and its cohorts to substitute skill, knowledge, and training for the vagrancies of chance and its dependence upon fate.

There was a time when a boy raised on a farm had to stay on the farm; there was no city where he could find work. There was a time when the village …

A Proposed Personnel Program For The Small College, Cecille Hyson Egan

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Relation Of The Thymus Gland To Sexual Maturity, Thomas Francis Ahearn Jr.

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Observations On The Occurance And Anlage Of The Abberant Thyroid In Dog, Robert Russell Tracht

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Studies On The Intestinal Absorption Of Histamine. I. The Effects Of Various Chemical Agents Applied To The Mucosa, Lambert Francis Mammoser

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Orthodoxy Of Milton's Theology Concerning The Trinity And Sin And Its Consequences, Rose Mary Dufault

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

An Attempt To Appraise The Standing Of Biology As A Subject Of Instruction In High School, Mary Fidelis

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Modern Languages In The Grades As A Means Of Provision For Superior Children, Mary Alexander Gannon

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Youth And Art, Madge Anderson

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis represents in part the effect that my recent study at Marquette University has had upon my work. In the light of this study I have re-viewed the problems of art education and re-formed my theories about it. This paper presents the philosophy at which I have arrived concerning Youth and Art.

Possibilities Of Character Formation In Our Public Schools, Julia I. Shinnick

Bachelors’ Theses

The end of all education should be the formation of character. Father Hull defines character as "life dominated by principles". No sentence containing four words expresses more food for thought. Life is made up of thoughts, words, and actions. The problem is how are these thoughts, words, and actions determined? The man without character acts upon impulse and he speaks and acts as these impulses seize him. If such a man's life is at all consistent it is because he lacks any originality or initiative to do otherwise. His character depends upon his impulses, or upon the good or bad …

Theories Of Color And Color Vision, M. Regina Wallesch

Bachelors’ Theses

Theories of color have occupied the human mind since an early date even to the present. According to Professor Frank Allen there are from sixty to seventy different theories. Plato considered color to be due to flame-like particles projected from the pores of matter into the eye. Aristotle thought colors arose from various combinations of white and black.

Public Opinion And The Textbooks In History, Agnes Ward

Bachelors’ Theses

Sir Robert Peel called public opinion a great compound of folly, weakness, and prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. However it is the great force which has been constantly at work through the ages, sometimes helpfully, sometimes harmfully, molding human history. the introduction of the printing press made books, pamphlets, magazines and newspapers a popular medium for its expression. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, when history formally became an integral part of the curriculum of our great public school system, there has been developed a suspicion among individuals and groups that the subject might easily …

The Vocational Movement In The United States: A Thesis, Martha V. Fitzsimmons

Bachelors’ Theses

Democracy symbolizes all that is best in common agree­ment, sentiment and determination of a collective people who have tested the worth of democracy through the storms of more than a century. Experience and contemporary world events increase confidence in this system and awaken fore­ thought to safeguard and improve American Democracy. The hope of a democracy depends upon the ideals and training of its youth, for the boys and girls of today will be the men and women of tomorrow. The life interests of a man are either cultural, economic or vocational. The function of education is not only to …

Geological Report Of Summer Field Trip 1928, Clarence A. Corry, Marcus Mccanna

Bachelors Theses and Reports, 1928 - 1970

The object of this trip and report was to familiarize the students of the Montana State School of Mines with methods of taking and mapping surface and undergound geology. All surface geology was mapped by means of plane table and alidade, and undergound work by means of Brunton compass and taps.

The senior class of the Montana State School of MInes under the supervision of Dr. E.S. Perry performed the work, which covered an area in Madison County including South Boulder Creek, near Jefferson Island, the Silver Star Mining District, and the Alameda Mine, near Virginia City.

The Vocational Guidance Movement With Special Reference To Organization For Milwaukee, Bessie E. Buckley

Bachelors’ Theses

Vocational Guidance is defined by the National Vocational Guidance Association as "The Giving of information, experience, and advice in regard to choosing an occupation, preparing for it, entering it, and progressing in it." In following the development of vocational guidance in the U.S. from its earliest beginnings to the present time we find leaders of industry and education interested in it. This study is an effort to find through the history of this development whether industry or education may be considered. the legitimate agency through which this movement might be expeoted to find its most successful leadership in Milwaukee.

A Brief History Of The Development Of Physical Education, Louis A. Zinsmeister

Bachelors’ Theses

When one wishes to inquire into the origin, or at least into the early forms of physical development, one turns to the early civilized nations for material and information. Knowledge of the early Egyptians, the Persians, and the Greeks comes to us through historians who deciphered the writings of these ancient peoples, so that we now know something about their lives and habits. The earliest forms of physical labor were those connected with hunting, tilling the soil, building homes, and warfare. As each of these developed, man also progressed in skill and became more and more proficient in the use …

Organization And Curriculum For Mentally Retarded Children, Alice M. Olwell

Bachelors’ Theses

The mentally retarded or exceptional child is one of the most puzzling personalities met with in our schools. He stands near the dividing line between normalcy and feeblemindedness, and his future happiness or tragic discouragement, and often ruin, depends upon the attitude of the school and the teachers towards his shortcomings during his childhood and adolescence. He may be trained to healthy competition in the field of labor with his normal brother, or he may reach adulthood an utter incompetent, a potential criminal, a moral degenerate, an unfortunate ne'er-do-well.

The Need Of A Working Text, Elizabeth L. Newman

Bachelors’ Theses

No doubt the idolatry of subject matter originated in those centuries v,hen there was no effective means for the dissemination of knowledge. The multitude could not possibly have access to the intellectual resources. These were stored up, in manuscripts. Of these there were at best a few; and it required long and toilsome preparation to be able to do anything with them. A high priesthood of learning, which guarded the treasury of truth and which doled it out to the masses under severe restrictions was the inevitable expression of these conditions.

A Study Of Supervision In North Dakota Schools Of From Ten To Twenty-Five Teachers, Clarence Ellithorpe

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Verb Syntax In Modern French Literature Based On Les Croix Des Bois, By Roland Dorgeles And La Vie D'Un Simple, By Emile Guillaumin, Wilbrod Flanagan

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Silent Reading In The Fourth And Fifth Grades, Margaret Neis

Bachelors’ Theses

Among the various subjects taught in the elementary schools reading is of the most fundamental importance. It is the basic tool through which history, geography, science, literature. and art are mastered. Indeed man's knowledge would be very meager it he followed the Socratic method of the early Greeks and taught only by word of mouth. The oratorical method used in ancient times has been supplanted by the printing press, the herald of a new civilization. Today man is controlled to a large degree by the printed word. Consequently if the interpretation of the printed word is faulty the approach to …

Teaching English In The Upper Grades, Berdice Josephine Moran

Bachelors’ Theses

In common with many of the lower animals man has the gregarious instinct. He is social by nature. Solitude is one of the conditions he fears. Man longs for the society of his fellows. A community of interests is the tie which binds the group together. The social instinct in man is manifested by his desire to communicate his thoughts to others. This Inclination has caused people of one nationality to settle in certain sections of a city or state. The use of a foreign language has kept alive in the heart of the immigrant, the love of his mother …

The Sensitivity Of The Ortho-Tolidine Test For Free Chlorine In Milk Serum, Estelle Downer

Bachelors’ Theses

In the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry for November, 1913, J.W. Ellms and S.J. Hauser introduced the ortho-tolidine test for the detection of minute quantities of free chlorine in water. Antecedant to the experimentation of the above men with ortho-tolidine, the starch-iodide test ·was universally used for the· detection of free chlorine. In this test, the chlorine is calculated by liberating iodine from potassium iodide by the available chlorine, and the iodine being titrated with sodium thio sulfate. starch solution is used as the indicator. However, this particular method offers difficulties in the presence of minute quantities of chlorine …

Intelligence And Acheivment Test Survey Of Grades Four To Eight, Inclusive Of Three Townships In Richland County, Marie J. Jacobson

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Development Of China's Export Trade, 1901-1925, Yu Jung Huang

Historical Dissertations & Theses

If we want to understand thoroughly China's future potentiality, we must give our attention to her exports. Although the Portuguese have had direct trade with China since the sixteenth century, followed by Spanish, Dutch, and British traders, and although American ships were found in the waters of South China during the early nineteenth century, it was not until the beginning of the twentieth century that trade with the western world was actually opened. Since that time China's foreign trade has increased rapidly, especially her exports.

Some of the dissertations and theses below reflect the time period in which they were …

The History Of The Food Vacuole Of Paramecium Caudatum, Amy M. Knospe

Bachelors’ Theses

The problem of my thesis is (1) to ascertain the best methods for procuring a culture media in which to develop Paramecium caudatum, (2) to trace the course of the food vacuole in Paramecium caudatum with the correlating studies on Food and Digestion in related forms, and (3) to review the literature with special reference to possible acidity and alkalinity of the vacuole content.

A Comparison Of The Work Of B. Perez Galdos And A. Palacio Valdes, Kathryne Oelhafen

Bachelors’ Theses

At the beginning of the nineteenth century Spain was swept by the tide of Romanticism but after the first fervor had spent itself, the Spaniards returned to realism, their natural bent.

The Reforms Of The Gracchi, Marie Antoinette O'Connell

Bachelors’ Theses

In every decade and in every century there are certain men who stand out, so to speak, above all others. Some men are famous for literature, some for art: some are before the public because of their philanthropic work, while others are famous because of political standing.

The world has always been set, and in each decade or century different actors appeared. In our time we have men such as Governor Smith, Senator Reed constantly before the public. In the last century we had Lincoln and before Lincoln we had Washington, Jefferson, etcetera.