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Emperor Worship Among The Romans, John Orth Riedl

Bachelors’ Theses

Rome was always a cosmopolitan city. She as conceived through a mingling of peoples and was nurtured in her cradle of seven hills on the cream of the surrounding tribes. She speedily outgrew her infant world, and thriving on the food of other races, soon stretched her aged length across the Tiber Riverbed with arms extending east far inland and west for miles along the road to Ostia.

The Immortality Of The Soul, Francis George Ramsden

Bachelors’ Theses

Throughout these changing centuries since the beginning of the world, and among the ever varying elements of life, there has been one being who has remained essentially the same. Man was created by God and endowed with a body and a soul. Though times and customs have changed and man lives differently now than did those who preceded him, he still possesses these same physical parts, a body and a soul.

History And Proof Of The Binomial Theorem, Ethel B. Ray

Bachelors’ Theses

Everyone realizes what a wonderful place the world really is. Yet, we of this day little think of the many generations that have gone to make our universe as it is. We think we have done wonders. We pride ourselves on our modern way. There is a tendency in man to "pat himself on the back" and boast of how well he has done. Little do we realize that millions and millions of people have given their whole lives so that we might be as we are. Of course the soldier gives his life for his country; but what of …

Bismark: His Struggle For German Hegemony From 1862 To 1890, Gertrude Carla Kamman

Bachelors’ Theses

It was Otto von Bismark who with an energetic hand fashioned a program so thorough and so complete that he made of Germany not only a unified country, but a country which eventually changed the whole face of Europe.

Methods Of Tracing Curves, Stephen Lewandowski

Bachelors’ Theses

There are two kinds of equations, algebraic equations and transcendental equations. An algebraic equation is one that involves a finite number of ordinary operations of algebra i.e. addition, multiplication, subtraction, division, extraction of roots, and raising to powers denoted by constant exponents.

Alsace-Lorraine Controversy, Edward S. Mcgarty

Bachelors’ Theses

Alsace-Lorraine has long been a bone of contention. In the numerous conflicts of the contending parties, the lands and possessions of these unhappy provinces were repeatedly subjected to destruction or pillage, and the pop-to all the violence of warfare, with the inevitable result that the social intellectual, and the industrial development of the country, rich as it is in natural resources and favored in its geographical position and configuration has been seriously hampered. With such salient features and barriers as the Rhine on the one hand and the Vosges Mountains on the other, the Alsace-Lorraine territory has constituted a border …

A Comparison Of Cicero’S And St. Thomas’S Treatises On The Immortality Of The Human Soul, Clare Carmelita Quirk

Bachelors’ Theses

Among the countless lessons which man perforce must learn in life's school, none is more impressive, none in a sense, more easily learned than the lesson of death. For look where he may, turn where he will, the fact of death confronts him everywhere. Death, too, speaks in the language of pain, in the keen anguish of partings, in the tongueless sorrow of bruised and lonely hearts. And the language of pain man cannot but hear, for it sears its message on his. soul, and though he should close his ears, he cannot shut his heart. Death, man cannot disregard.

Hyperbolic Functions, Margaret S. Johnston

Bachelors’ Theses

A Study of hyperbolic functions is both interesting and fruitful because of their important and historical relation to the more elementary branches of Mathematics: Trigonometry, Analytical Geometry and Differential and Integral Calculus. Historically the development of hyperbolic functions has been closely associated with the development of the properties of the circle, ellipse, and hyperbola; the earliest knowledge of the functions rising out of a comparative study of these curves, and resting on more analogy rather than clear definition and proof.

How A Course Of Study In Spelling Should Be Made, Carrie E. Schwartz

Bachelors’ Theses

The primary object of the teaching of spelling is to supply the present and adult needs of the child. The present needs are the words most frequently used in the writing done in school, either in the children's themes or in their examinations. Their adult needs are the words most frequently written in life outside the school; in writing personal or business letters.

The Morality Of Nationalism, John Ambrose Walsh

Bachelors’ Theses

A few short years ago the world was suffering from the most brutal and destructive war it had ever known. We had boasted of our civilization; we had attempted to establish a tribunal for world peace; we had talked of settling differences by means of arbitration. Meanwhile every European nation (and some non-European nations) were girding themselves for war and increasing their armament. School books were lauding national heroes to the skies and painting patriots of other nations in blackest hue. Germans were singing "Deutschland Uber Alles", and English were singing "Rule Brittania". Germany, Austria, and Italy had one secret …

Advertising: A Necessity To Railroad Progress, Arabella Warren

Bachelors’ Theses

The railroads of the United States, foremost in the internal development of the country, have had to overcome a greater sentiment of animosity on the part of the public than have any other large corporations. They have combated this commercial opposition through the channels of advertising and publicity which have led them out into the realms of Prosperity.

Fantasy In Shakespeare, Barrie And Yeats, Dorothy Anne Dawe

Bachelors’ Theses

Shakespeare, Barrie and Yeats. What a diversity of thoughts and ideas their manes present. Each ts a genius, and each is different from the other, for geniuses are never like any other people. Each has become a literary success through a different media. And yet they are alike in one respect. They all possess that quality of "Fantasy". They have each inculcated that spirit into their works, and hence are kindred in one respect at least.

Mysticism In The Metaphysical School Of Poets, Jessie Donaldson Corrigan

Bachelors’ Theses

In the desire to transcend the physical world, men of every age have set foot upon the "Mystic Way". This desire, which is a thing internal and intuitive, has been called the "instinct for transcendence." Once upon the mystic way, "the wistful eyes of Life are set towards a vision that is also a Home - a Home from which news can reach us now and again."

A History And Study Of The Critical Essay, Matthew Coogan

Bachelors’ Theses

The Essay as a form in literary practice found its origin in the sixteenth century in the writings of Michel Montaigne. As Montaigne used it, the essay was a personal, chatty, intimate discourse between the author and the reader. John Richard Green described it very nicely when he wrote that "the essayist (Montaigne) is a gentleman who chats to a world of gentle men and whose chat is shaped and coloured by a sense of what he owes to his company and what he owes to his subject." This while it characterizes the essay of Montaigne, hardly covers the scope …

The Classicism Of John Milton, Louise Catherine Dederich

Bachelors’ Theses

Every writer, whether immortal or unknown, whether philosopher or humorist, ones his style or at least its foundation to some earlier writer. Though conscious or unconscious, there is always a trace of another's influence. In the works of some writers we behold a conscious modeling. They have studied sane chosen paragon- analyzed him and made him a part of themselves. They imitate and try to perfect him. They copy and improve upon his genius. In others we find an influence which may have been wholly indeliberate. Satis­faction and keen appreciation have led the author to bestow his attention upon some …

Literary Origins Of John Henry Cardinal Newman, Anne M. De Laney

Bachelors’ Theses

A man's name is inscribed in a Biographical Dictionary by the date of his birth; but in reality it is his death that ranges him in the heart and mind of humanity.

Contributary factors to his imminent greatness are often minimized in importance; and yet those factors are essentially so many milestones in the way of his achievements.

Even so it is with Newman. Biographers have given us certain facts concerning his life; critics have told us the relative value of his. writings; while time has told us of his unique greatness. It is admittedly difficult in a biographical sketch. …

Extra-Curricular Activities In The High School, Ethel Mary De Marsh

Bachelors’ Theses

Extra-curricular activities in the secondary school are those which are not provided for in the regular curriculum, but are an essential part in the regular program. The activities are the result of broadened aims in education within the last half century, and the realization of the fact that students are entitled to the development of spiritual, social and physical, as well as the intellectual side of their character.

The Instalment Selling Plan In The United States And Its Social And Economic Consequences, Leo Frederick Barden

Bachelors’ Theses

Instalment Selling is a vital current problem. Assumptions and facts are presented to the reading public by proponents and opponents of the system. Opponents of instalment selling are as outspoken with their criticism as supporters are with their praise. Our trade magazines are filled with articles of such nature. "Instalment is a perverted, species of speculation and cheap money," or "Instalment is the balance wheel by which production and distribution are equally maintained." This manuscript is written with a desire to help those, who are wrestling with this economic and social problem, a problem of great significance during a period …

The Effect Of Aldehydes On The Solutions Of Iron Wire In Hydrochloric Acid, Mary Margaret Bannen

Bachelors’ Theses

The destruction of iron by corrosion, under the influence of natural agencies, is far more rapid than the decay of wood and other materials of construction. Were it not for iron, the erection of large works of engineering would be impossible. Their very size and consequent cost represent a large sum of human energy. This is, after all, the only true foundation for wealth and it becomes a duty to preserve iron from decay.

Investigations Of English Euphuism, James Richard Barnett

Bachelors’ Theses

The Revival of Learning during the century between 1450 and 1550 as a reopening of the ancient masterpieces of poetical, dramatic and philosophical literature. Men suddenly came into a vast, unprecedented fortune, and for a long while did not know how to use it. Realization of the pricelessness of their new possession seemed to demand that their very lan­guage should be in a concatenation accordingly. As a result of this ambition, certain affectations of style in both writing and speech sprang up in cultured circles throuhout the whole of Europe. These affectations spread like an epidemic. One form arose in …

The Novels Of Thomas Hardy: A Study Of Radical Pessimism, Marie J. Bub

Bachelors’ Theses

Although Thomas Hardy is still alive hundreds of criticisms and estimations of his works have been written. In past ages man believed in a certain commandment which read: "Thou shalt not judge thy contemporaries." But this was later questioned and repudiated by men with some degree of enthusiasm for truth of a kind. For, said they, if a man's contemporaries understand him not, who shall? At least there are truths and views of him that must be caught alive or, like the flower once blown, forever die. "And just as a man's biography, if it be worth writing at all, …

Social Satire In The Augustan Age, Franklyn P. Biever

Bachelors’ Theses

Satire and the satirist have been in evidence in well-nigh all the ages of the world's history. It is part of man's nature to seek entertainment, but often the object of his pleasure is the ridicule of an individual, the community at large, or some cause. When the human comedy of men and manners is out of gear through the tyranny of either over the other, and existence is become a travesty and a caricature of life, heavy and lumbering, then, when men can neither laugh or weep, comes satire and the satirist to break the congestion in them and …

Women In George Eliot's Novels, Rose G. Biller

Bachelors’ Theses

It is given to us, to aid our inadequate intellects, that we may understand not only by simple comprehension of a statement of fact, but by the process of comparison and contrast. Thus, to plumb the depths of George Eliot's peculiar greatness, we compare and contrast her to Charles Dickens. She is everything that he is not. Whereas he had the utmost power of rendering the external traits of people, she had the utmost power of rendering their internal traits, their psychological characters, their conceptions of life, and their emotions. Charles Dickens takes the human creature and portrays his behavior; …

The School Of Nursing Its Organization, Administration, And Relationship To The Hospital, Mary Berenice Beck

Bachelors’ Theses

History tells us that the nursing done in the early hospitals in the United States, a hundred years ago, was of the poorest possible type, excluding that of the religious orders. The non-sectarian hospitals were public institutions and most of the nursing was done by inmates or by the very poorest class of individuals, who could obtain no other work, and were compelled to earn a meagre livelihood in this manner. No one went to the hospital who could .afford to remain out of it, since the nursing service in the home was far better. Trained nurses did not exist, …

Indeterminate Coefficients, Armond William Bear

Bachelors’ Theses

No abstract provided.

The Technique Of The Drama Of John Galsworthy, Irene Louise Edwards

Bachelors’ Theses

Since 1906 when John Galsworthy published "The Silver Box", he has produced nineteen dramas and a number of one act plays; and Phelps says "he has produced nothing negligible". (Phelps: "Essays on Modern Dramatists" p. 100 ). In his very first play, he used a technique which he has continued to follow with more or less precision and perfection in the later dramas ( except "The Little Dream"). He did not flounder about as did the pacemakers of modern drams. He found his medium ready-made for him in naturalism, and he adopted it. It was the most suitable for the …

Woman In Roman Society, Hugh A. Flatley

Bachelors’ Theses

In Roman times as in our own there were constant changes and developments in the customs the rights and the obligations of woman. Their education, their attitude toward marriage and its various forms, their duties to­ ward husband and household, their regard for law and morality,--all varied and changed; some, even, were for­ gotten. As century after century in our own late history alters and abolishes habits and practices of our ancestors, so succeeding centuries then, revolutionized old practices and made new and different ones. Instances of this are found especially in regard to marriage. Four and five cen­turies before …

The History Of The Deductive Detective Story From Poe To Freeman And Bailey With A Critical Comparison, Raymond F. Erz

Bachelors’ Theses

Ever since the beginning of man universal interest has been centered about these three magnetic words: MYSTERY, INTRIGUE, ADVENTURE. A famous author once said, "All the world's a stage and we are the actors in it. This in every respect is true for ourselves as well as for every­ body else. Plots are being formulated to shorten the ex­istence of one character for the other, the act is done, the stage is minus a personage, the actors hesitate, and the show goes on.

The Picric Acid Method Of Sugar Determinations As Applied To Solutions Containing Maltose And Lactose, John J. Hennecke

Bachelors’ Theses

Lewis and Benedict based their method of sugar determination upon the reaction which takes place when a glucose solution is heated with a few C.C. of picric acid to which a small amount of alkali has been added.

On Finding God, Joseph Heinzkill

Bachelors’ Theses

A being who is God is absolute in love and beauty and truth, and in the being all faith and hope and love and all beauty and thought begin. Some of the harmony in the being is given to all the universe and is in dawn and in evening, in the winds and rain, in the seasons, in the earth and oceans, in the mines within the earth, in the fields, in woods, in every plant and being that lives, and in beings endowed with mind and will. In this harmony of the universe the soul rises to the being …