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Studies On The Control Of Loose Smut Of Wheat, Clarence J. Hansen

Biology

This paper is a report of the work done during the past year, on the project known as "Loose Smut Control Investigations".

Studies On The Control Of Loose Smut Of Wheat, Clarence J. Hansen

Biology

This paper is a report of the work done during the past year, on the project known as "Loose Smut Control Investigations".

A Critical Study Of Blood Sugar Determination, Myrtle L. Sand

Bachelors’ Theses

There are many methods, for the determination of this sugar, in use now, some used widely others not so widely. Methods vary as to accuracy and there has been many comparisons made between various methods. There is a recognized clinical need of a method for a quantitative sugar determination which will be quick, accurate, and adapted for use with small blood samples. As a result of this last, namely adaptation for use with small blood samples, several micro chemical methods have been published. One of these is the Epstein method. It is simple and supposed to make the estimation of …

The History And Development Of Supervision In The Elementary Public Schools Of The United States, Mary Kappelman

Bachelors’ Theses

Although supervision has become an accepted branch of our system of public education, few persons have, evidently, undertaken a systematic study of its history.

Evaluation Of Modern Methods In The Teaching Of History, Valborg R.C. Henningsen

Bachelors’ Theses

By method is meant that arrangement of subject matter, which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of material. Even from the standpoint of an individual who is dealing with subject matter, it is not something external but rather thoroughly individual. Each person has his own instinctive way of dealing with material. The attitude and mode of approach and attack are individual. To ignore this individuality of approach, to try to substitute for it, under the name of general method, a uniform scheme of procedure is simply to cripple the only effective agencies of operation and …

The Teaching Of Written Composition In The Grammar Grades, Elizabeth Harrington

Bachelors’ Theses

No civilization at all could exist unless people had some means of making known their thoughts and getting others to work and act with them. Man is a social being and commu­nication with others is an imperative need. Expression of some kind is natural and necessary in order to carry on intercourse with others. Language is the great means of communication. It is the channel through which thought and. feeling flow. Thought and language are interdependent. Clear thinking is almost as dependent on correct words as exact words are on clear thinking.

Comparison Of Dante's Inferno With Virgil's Aeneid, Book Vi, Mary Ludwigis Brinkmann

Bachelors’ Theses

In the realms of literature no work of man has ever answered the question of St. Augustine, "Am I immortal or not?" with greater vividness of imagery, based in a large measure on the teaching of Christianity, than Dante has in his Divine Comedy. Not only the condition of the soul after death does he visualize, but as a philosopher he proposes for our instruction in the course of his journey many questions of dogmatic thought, affecting the Hereafter.

The New Education, Mary Hyacinth Bauer

Bachelors’ Theses

No study is possible except by the guidance of certain fixed principles. In a study of ed­ucation this is true more than in any other study, because there are so many viewpoints and so few fixed objectives. Modern education is based upon certain fixed principles deduced from present day life and placed upon a scientific basis.

The Dramas Of Claudel: A Study Of Mysticism., Margaret Frances Ryan

Bachelors’ Theses

Do to the fact that Paul c·1audel is still living, and is still in the prime of life, there has been no extensive work done by critics and biographers on this author and his works. There have been, as yet, no entire books written on the subject. It has been said that no man is ever acknowledged to be really great until after his death. Perhaps this holds true in the case of Paul Claudel, man of a affairs and -writer of miracle plays. In France, hie native country, he is known as a great poet by many, but due …

On The Beautiful And Its Relation To The Good, John Joseph Jermain

Bachelors’ Theses

When one essays a dissertation on some profound subject, such as The Beautiful and its relation to the Good, he may well begin with an analysis or exposition of the Beautiful. The first question to be answered is, "What do men mean when, viewing some object or event, they say, 'That is beautiful?'" They express themselves in these words when there is present to them some landscape tinted with the sun is fair rays or affording the mellow moonbeams an object upon which to shower their splendor. The fine arts, painting, sculpture, architecture and music evoke such an expression of …

Imperialism, Margaret Mary Horn

Bachelors’ Theses

The Imperialistic idea may be said to have been at all times a dominating factor in the building of a nation or an empire.

Imperialism may be defined as "that policy be which a people as an autocrat acquires and maintains an empire. An empire is a state formed by the rule of one state over other states."

The Song In Elizabethan Drama With Particular Reference To Its Function In Shakespeare, John Joseph Plamondon

Master's Essays (1922 - )

We have approached our study of the song in Elizabethan Drama with the intention of accounting for the abundance of vocal music in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and of explaining the use of song as a dramatic device. It has been considered necessary to a proper understanding of the place of song in the Romantic Drama to give a rather broad treatment of the subject, including a brief history of the song in the English theatre, the psychology of its origin, and the cause of its decline. Methods of presenting songs have been discussed to strengthen our …

Requirements For A Social Worker, Ruth E. Smith

Bachelors’ Theses

Entering upon a discussion of the requirements for Social Worker it might he well to have some clear and definite notions as to the meaning of Social Work. "The affair of social welfare is not a delimited field, like medicine or law for example, and it cannot safely be left to any specialized group of "professional experts", the body of knowledge about social relations and about the effects of the methods which have been tried for dealing with social problems and improving social conditions is by no means so authoritative or so comprehensive that such a procedure is wise.

A Method Of Measuring The Velocity Of Gravitation, Percy Martin Roope

Historical Dissertations & Theses

For many years the velocity of gravitation, or more properly, the velocity of propagation of gravitational potential, has been the subject of much theoretical discussion. The magnitude of this velocity according to proposed theories varies from the velocity of light to infinity. According to the theory of relativity, the velocity of gravitation should be equal to that of light, and the success which experimental tests of the theory have met justify this assumption. No previous work has been done, however, which would form the basis of a direct measurement. During the past three years, experiments relating to the velocity of …

The Origin And Development Of Pre-Shakespearean Comedy, Fannye Charlotte Forman

Bachelors’ Theses

The early history of English Comedy is a record of successive effort and experiments apparently leading to no result. In the early moralities as in the Miracle plays, there are flashes of humour; in the later moralities there are scenes in which "the effort to paint the riotous course of Youth, though not very amusing to modern readers, is sufficiently faithful to bring us within sight of a possible comedy of manners. But the morality-writer was far from entertaining any conception of comedy as an end in itself. His aim remained to the last purely didactic. It did not, indeed, …

Valuable An Permanent Home Circulation For Daily Newspapers Is Best Acquired And Retained By The Exercise Of The Best Business Methods And Ethics And Application Of The Principle That The Newspaper Should Be Wanted For Itself Or For Something Which Is An Integral Part Of It, Thomas Riddell Sankey

Bachelors’ Theses

Wholesome tradition is an asset to an institution, a. nation or a business. Edmund Burke's famous epitome of the journalistic world and the oft used and much abused quotation, "The pen is mightier than the sword," in addition to -all the Col. Henry Wattereone, Daniel DeFoes and other purse-poor but quixotic knights of the copy pencil have cast over the newspaper calling a glamour of romance and wonder. To the layman the newspaper reporter is either a courageous knight-errant protected by a shining buckler of righteous courage, or a devil-may-care picaro with a taste for bright lights and late hours.

History And Development Of Modern Education And Its Present Status, Iva M. Krebs

Bachelors’ Theses

Every professional teacher since modern civilization began, has used method in his instruction. There are certain general principles back of all teaching methods that give them a common character. The chief characteristics of our modern methods used in education can be traced back to the eighteenth century.

The Interpretation Of The Curriculum In Terms Of Projects, Catherine Francis O'Grady

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis is an attempt to show that through the utilization of projects the subject matter of the present curriculum functions as it should, is mastered more effectively, and learned more thoroughly because the project procedure is in complete accordance with the laws of learning. The writer desires, furthermore, to point out in particular a significant aspect of the project procedure, a corollary which appears on analysis truly phenomenal; roughly stated it is the fact that in a project procedure manifold opportunities are being constantly presented whereby desirable attitudes and ideals may most appropriately be fixed.

Sensational Versus Conservative Makeup In Newpapers, Ruth Elizabeth O'Brien

Bachelors’ Theses

Sensational and conservative newspaper makeup presents a problem of vital interest to the age we are living. We are faced with the difficulty of placing before the public, stalking headlines; or on the contrary merely a cut and dried statement of facts. Of these two the former would result in the "headline readers"; while the latter would result in the well read public - those who would read the papers at all.

Appropriate Copy -- A Necessity Of Good Advertising, Marion Purtell

Bachelors’ Theses

One word may make or mar an advertisement- such is the power of the written word, such the effect of the word on the human mind that often between the use of the correct appropriate, word and the ill-chosen carelessly- written word there rests the difference between the making of a sale and the losing of a customer.

America And Monroe's Doctrine, Herman Rauch

Bachelors’ Theses

The greatest documents of American history form a triumvirate. Incidentally they all had their inception in the United States portion of this Western Hemisphere.

The Conception Of History In Tacitus And Livy, Marguerite Teresa Puerner

Bachelors’ Theses

Few writers among the ancients have received more condemnation, more criticism, less whole-heart d praise than Tacitus and Livy, the two most eminent historians of antiquity. By far the greater part of modern criticism is unfavorable to them. Even those who profess to admire them apologize for their faults, excuse them, seek to explain them away, and then very generously admit that, when all has been taken into consideration, their histories are really very fine. But all critics, adverse and favorable alike, are forced to grant that these historians have succeeded in giving us the true picture of Rome, and …

Adjusting Secondary School Instruction To Individual Differences, Mary Ursula Garder

Bachelors’ Theses

Our twentieth-century secondary schools face a problem scarcely thought of in the previous century. The "high school” student body no longer consists of the select few who are preparing for a college career, but rather of the majority of the elementary school graduates.

A Study Of The Ph Of Sodium Citrate In Relation To Blood Transfusion, Roman Edward Galasinski

Bachelors’ Theses

Blood transfusion, within recent years, has become a subject of paramount therapeutic importance. A few years back the technique of blood transfusion was so difficult that there were only a relatively few who possessed the requisite skill to perform the operation and then not always successfully. But since the year 1907 the evolution and perfection of blood transfusion procedures has been so steady and immense that, as a therapeutic measure, it has come into general use in the treatment of various acute and chronic lesions.

The Present Status Of Reading, Agnes M. Murphy

Bachelors’ Theses

Changes in modern social life have caused important changes in the classroom. Efforts are made to meet the needs of this new social situation by means of a broader course of study, an ever increasing curriculum, and scientific methods of procedure in classroom instruction.

The Relation Of Athletics To The Adolescent Boy, Peter Francis Murphy Jr.

Bachelors’ Theses

The adolescent period, or "youth," as it is sometimes called, extends from the arrival of puberty to the attainment of maturity,. This period, therefore, begins about the twelfth or thirteenth year and is brought to a close in about the twenty first year, and for that reason is frequently termed the "teen" age.

The adolescent stage of life is usually split into three divisions, each overlapping the other, and these divisions are called for convenience, early, middle and late adolescence. The first extends from the twelfth to the fifteenth year, the second from the fourteenth to the eighteenth, and the …

The Characteristics Of The Elizabethan Drama With Particular References To Marlowe, Lyly, Greene, And Kyd, Mary Rose Schwigel

Bachelors’ Theses

Aristotle's simple definition of drama as "imitated human action" has not been bettered. Man cannot escape man even in the drama, and it is the ways of our kind that constitute the essentials of dramatic subject matter. From another well known definition we may gain another point of view. "A drama is an epic told in lyric parts." An epic, in lars, is a narrative poem, a story of deeds told outwardly and objectively by some one who has heard them. A lyrical poem is thew expression of an inner or subjective emotion by one who has felt what he …

The Development Of The Gametophyte And Apogamous Sporophyte In Cheilanthes Feei, Moore, Florence Madeline Steil

Bachelors’ Theses

Since Leszeye-Suminski's (1848) discovery of tracheids near the apical notch of the prothallium of Pteris sulcata, problems pertaining to apogamy or related phenomena have offered a wide field for botanists. Nearly all workers interested in the study of apogamous ferns, have contributed something of physiological or cytological interest

The Symbolism And The Morality Of The Modern Drama, Florence Marie Schopps

Bachelors’ Theses

The drama has always been the mirror of the age. It is in contemporary drama more than in any other form of art that one finds the mouthpiece and the embodiments of the tur spirit of modernism. The drama of today is the drama of revolt. It opposes the tradition of the past. It is an open attack against the subject-matter, technique, and stagecraft of the drama of past centuries. It proposes changing standards of morality and uses symbolism as one of its chief modes of expression.

The Development Of The Drama From The Church, Karl V. Schoenecker

Bachelors’ Theses

In the study of the drama and especially the stage, we find that it had its death and inception in the Church. In the early stages of Christianity we find the Church condemning with great vigor all forms of stage presentations not for any destruction of art but because the stage was the visible representative of the old pagan life. Pagan ideas and culture were fostered and in the plays themselves lurked the thoughts of the old mythology.