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Vital Phases Of The Project Method Of Teaching, Irene Horlivy

Bachelors’ Theses

The dissatisfaction of educators with the teaching of isolated facts have expressed itself in the recent development of the Project Method. Everywhere the endeavor to organize education on this practical, pedagogical basis, is meeting with most enthusiastic support.

Juvenile Delinquency, Louis J. Hohmann

Bachelors’ Theses

Trio of Youths Escape with $50,000 Loot; Lad of Eighteen Years Shoots His Mother; Score of Minors Arrested in Liquor Ring. Day after day we pick up our newspapers to see headlines of this, or of a similar, nature displayed before our eyes. Day after day the press shrieks it's hideous cries of juvenile delinquency to the millions of people who peruse the printed page. Day after day, names of juvenile offenders are affixed to lists, the magnitude of which are already startling. The present condition of affairs is such that the most easy-going should overcome his state of …

Spenser's Influence On The Romanitic Poets, Mary Vivian Hurley

Bachelors’ Theses

While it is generally conceded that Spenser is the "spiritual father" of many poets, very few writers have treated of his influence in a definite manner. Mr. William Lyon Phelps has a chapter on "The Spenserian Revival" in his "The Beginnings of the Romantic Movement." It gives the most exhaustive account that has been written on Spenser's influence but it treats only of the eighteenth century poets. Professor Henry A. Beers also included a chapter on "The Spenserians" in his "A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century" in which he traces the influence of Spenser on the poets …

The Unification Of Germany Under The Leadership Of Bismarck, Virginia Katherine Hunt

Bachelors’ Theses

The hand of Otto Von Bismarck was the hand that fashioned the German ship of state. It was Bismarck, who, out of huddled mass of little states, created the great German Empire. With the aid of indefatigable energy, clear foresight, an almost superhuman perseverance in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles, he brought his country out of obscurity and gave her a place in the universe.

Financing The Construction Of Residences And Apartment Houses In Wisconsin, Edward Imhoff

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis originated in the desire of the author to present primarily, the means of finance which are at the disposal of the family desiring to build or purchase a home; secondarily to present the importance of the home in the life of man, a brief history of the different types of homes occupied by people, and the primary considerations in the planning and designing of an ideal home.

Pre Vocational Education With Special Reference To Pre Vocational Education For Girls, Ruth Hurlbut

Bachelors’ Theses

The necessity for providing vocational information and experience for children who are likely to leave school before completing the high-school course and thus face at a very early age the demands of industrial and commercial life, is coming to be generally recognized. It has been evident for many years the the public school has been giving more effective service to the boy and girl who continue through college and into the professions than it does to the one who must step directly into the job without further training - and this in the face of the fact the the latter …

Capitalism Vs. Socialism, J. Wright Ihlenfeld

Bachelors’ Theses

There are two forces in society today -- conservatism which tends towards stagnation and the progressive movement, which is forever adapting society to new conditions, producing new organs when new functions have to be performed, substituting new vitalities for spent ones and keeping pace with the dynamic changes of our economic life. The latter is revolutionary in the sense that it sees in the life of society both the capacity for, and the promise of, fundamental change, but anti-revolutionary in the sense that it strives to bring about these changes by a never-ending organic adaptation.

Virgil's Legacy To Milton, Margaret Mary Nagle

Bachelors’ Theses

Poetry is vitally the translation or interpretation of life in its highest terms. In its advance through the centuries, it gives expression to man's attempt to find, under the confused appearance of things as we see them, life's real truth and beauty. Latin poetry is one of the great incarnations of this endless progress through the ages and the Prince of Poets, Virgil, stands in one of the foremost places in the line of torch-bearers. The masterpieces of Latin literature are of great importance in the present age. They are supreme works of art,of an excellence unsurpassed and in some …

The Industrial Advertising Dollar, Arthur H. Nicolaus

Bachelors’ Theses

Although our time may be called the era of big business and extensive advertising, I believe that the day of intensive advertising is still young. Millions have been expended on placing selling copy before the reader and a surprising amount of that expenditure has been spent without any economic calculation of its return.

Training In Citizenship, Cecilia A. Colbert

Bachelors’ Theses

One hundred years ago, the township was the unit of government in this country. At its meetings, opinions were formed through neighborly discussion. Rapid grouth in population brought with it greater and greater complexity in form of government. The theory of democracy, identifying the functioning of government with the will of the people remained, however. Politicians were prone to refer to the wisdom of the people as though it were that of one person and to the wills of the people as though they formed one will. This is spite of the fact that centers of government were often at …

Progress And Tendencies Of Farm Accounting, Leslie W. Duquaine

Bachelors’ Theses

Farming is a business which if successful must be con­ducted in a business-like manner. It involves the production and sale of commodities, just as does manufacturing and therefore the business man, whether in the factory or on the farm should be constantly considering the question of profit ant how such profit can be increased. An adequate accounting system leads directly to a means of arriving at the amount of net profit the business is making and the efficiency in the management of the business. The problem confronting the farmer is to meed conditions on his farm in a way that …

Sarcenic Civilization In The Middle Ages, Helene M. Ahern

Bachelors’ Theses

Of all the older nations who have carried their arms across vast continents,whose fleets have swept the seven seas, and who have left ineffaceable marks of their achievements on the pages of History, and enriched the world of thought by their discoveries and speculations,the Sarcens stand to us the nearest in time. The modern world is still working with the legacy they left behind,with the intellectu­al wealth they stored for their successors. It is, therefore a matter of regret that in the West a knowledge of their history should be so limited and more than this,that an entirely unfounded and …

The Education Of The Accelerated Child, Robert Marber Francis Derse

Bachelors’ Theses

Nature has bestowed upon some of its children a gift so mysterious in its operations, so wonderful in its products and so tremendous in its influence that it baffles the most cultured and powerful minds in the attempt to analyze its workings. Even the possessor is unable to trace either -its origin or its mode of action. It is the common parent of invention and science of music and poetry and its chief distinction lies in the ability to penetrate farther into the field of truth than ordinary minds can do. To live in worlds that are unknown except to …

Cicero's Belief In The Immortality Of The Soul, Madeleine Julian Donahue

Bachelors’ Theses

In the darkness before the dawn of Christianity, Marcus Tullius Cicero, the pagan philosopher and moralist, lived. He was of that last generation~ floundering in a world devoid of all religion, blank as to any ideas of a God. Religion only meant gods as things to swear by, or things to be amused by, or things from which, if times were bad, some doubtful assistance might perchance come. It was a century in which the old religions had lost their hold, and Christianity had not yet emerged.

The Emergence Of A Congo Church, H. C. Hobgood

Graduate Thesis Collection

In 1898 the Disciples of Christ took over the Equator station of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Union at Bolenge. From that time this mission has enjoyed a steady growth, both in missionary personnel and its influence on native life in the Equator District of the Colony of Congo Belge. Its influence has also reached parts of three of the districts bordering on Equator District. It is with the church that this mission has won from the surrounding heathenism and with the church that it is hoped may be built up in this section from this beginning that this thesis …

English Religious Poetry Of The Nineteenth Century As Influenced By The Catholic Spirit, Mary Mida

Master's Theses

Since we are now entering upon the second quarter of the twentieth century, it follows that the perspective thus offered gives ample scope for an authoritative report on the literary output of the preceding century, in the special field chosen - English Religious Poetry. The older English poets wrote from an established point of view, that is, their human creed and their idea of man coincided, while the modern English poets voice the protest or the defense of those who have little in common save the genius of the Bard. This has led to a certain recklessness in the matter …

The Agape Of The Early Christian Chuech, F Breuer

Bachelor of Divinity

The Agape is defined as "the social meal or love-feast of the primitive Christians which usually accompanied the Eucharist." It extended from the days of the Apostles to the ninth century in the Western Church and in the Eastern Church it still exists in some form or other. In this paper, however, we have restricted ourselves to the first two centuries of the Christian Church and shall consider the Agape under the following heads: 1) the evidence of the meal and its designation; 2) the sources of first-hand information; 3) the origin and purpose of the meal; 4) the constituents …

The Evaluation Of The Dairy Cow, George Gardner

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The accurate appraisal of property is in a great many cases a difficult task. A savings account in a bank may be evaluated with high precision. A business building in a large city may bring in returns sufficiently steady and permanent so that a careful appraiser with a reasonable knowledge of depreciation losses to be anticipated might fix a value without very much error.

A Critical Comparison Of Luther's Bible Translation And The King James Version, Martin Poch

Bachelor of Divinity

The period of the Reformation, however, changed all this and with the shackles of Rome removed the Bible again came into its own, and so to this period then we owe the finest translations, foremost among these model versions being the German and the English.

The Neronian Persecution, W J. Schnedler

Bachelor of Divinity

Let us for a moment pause here, and take a closer glimpse of Nero, who at this time occupied the throne at Rome. At the time of the fire he was in the tenth year of his reign.

The Arian Controversy Between The Councils Of Nicaea And Constantinople (A. D. 325-381), Richard J. Jagels

Bachelor of Divinity

The Arian Controversy Between the Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople (A. D. 325-381)

The Companions Of Paul On His Various Journeys And In His Captivities, Arnold F. Meyer

Bachelor of Divinity

For the better understanding o:r the position in which the companions of Paul stood to the Apostle and the role which they played in the 1ife and journeys of this great missionary; it is expedient to say a few words about that great Apostle to the Gentiles. Paul is the axle around which all the companions revolve as the separate parts of a great mechanism. We shall not attempt to give a complete biography of the man; but we shall try to give a brief survey of his life, in order that we may have a clear conception also of …

Critique Of Moffatt's Translation Of Matthew And Mark, Martin P. Simon

Bachelor of Divinity

On the principle of the open Bible Christians, if consistent, must welcome an improved translation, and the only issue must center on the question of improvement or lack of improvement. We cannot consistently condemn in Weymouth what we praise in Luther, nor censure Goodspeed for following in the footsteps of Tyndale and James’ theologians. And if a pastor for no sufficient reason withholds from his people a translation better than the current, is he not robbing them of part of their birthright? If more translations means better translations, by all means let us have more or them, at least for …

Behaviorism And Christianity, Daniel Coyner

Bachelor of Divinity

The purpose of our discussion, however, is not so much to reveal the weak features of behaviorism as it is to place it in juxtaposition with Christianity and point out the incongruities. We have seen that the philosophical basis upon which the superstructure of behaviorism has been raised is a problem that has not bothered many of the behaviorists. Most of them have chosen to remain indifferent to this groundwork - apparently because it is not objective enough for them. But whether it be objective or subjective, Christianity has a very definite philosophical basis and our comparison of the two …

Is The Criminal Morally Responsible?, Donald Ryan

Bachelors’ Theses

Re live today, but tomorrow shall judge us by the criterion of yesterday, by that norm which is universal, eternally and abidingly true, the end of man completely and objectively considered. We say that we have progressed. We gaze in derision at primitive man, at the barbarians, at our ancestors, and at the natives of out-of-the-way places today. Yet well may they pity us, for if we have advanced so much farther than they, our responsibility for our talents is proportionately greater. Whether we have progressed or not, I shall not discuss; but assuming such a fact on the basis …

The Effect Of Alternate Freezing And Thawing On Impermeable Alfalfa And Dodder Seeds, A. R. Midgley

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

It is surprising to know the small amount of work that has been done on alternate freezing and thawing of seeds. Many experiments, however, have been conducted to see the effect of very low temperatures on seeds and to notice the effect it had on their vitality. Some experimenters subjected seeds to temperatures as low as liquid hydrogen with very interesting results but in very few cases, if any, was the effect of alternate freezing and thawing studied.

The work that follows deals directly with the effects of alternate freezing and thawing on impermeable seeds of alfalfa and of dodder. …

Correlated Inheritance In Wheat, George Stewart

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Since the rediscovery of Mendel's law in 1900, there have been many studies of inheritance in wheat. Of these rather numerous investigations, however, only a few have consisted of correlated studies of various characters on the same plant.

Inheritance of awns and of spike density have received some attention but the studies have hardly more than indicated the problem. Both have been thought by some to be rather simple in their inheritance, and in some crosses without doubt such is the case, but lately there has come a recognition of considerable complexity.

Density. As here used, "density" refers to …

Correlation Studies In Wheat, Joseph Reed

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Considerable work has been done by plant breeders and investigators in the study of individual plant characters, but only a few have attempted to work out correlations between characters in crop plants. One reason for this seems to be, that many investigators have felt that correlation studies were of very little practical value. This attitude was due perhaps to the interpretation given correlation data, especially the nature of the casual agency or agencies to which the correlation was attributed. Most of our plant breeders however, have been too busy working on experiments with single characters and have given little or …

The Last Years Of The Life Of St. Paul, Walter Heyne

Bachelor of Divinity

The question of Paul’s last years is one which has been agitating the minds of Bible scholars for many years. The failure of the Holy Spirit to give us any definite Information as to the time and place of his death is to a great extent responsible for this controversy. Tradition, likewise, while it is unaninous on some points relating to the Apostle's last days and death, leaves us in the lurch when we approach the question of the exact date of Paul's death. The result of this uncertainty is not merely a contention regarding the date of Paul's martyrdom, …

Dr. Walter Reed And Yellow Fever, Reade W. Corr

Honors Theses

All my life I have been hearing about Dr. Walter Reed. He has been known to me as the man who made possible the building of the Panama Canal. This I was told he did by eliminating yellow fever from Central America. How he succeeded in doing this or when it was done, I did not know. Indeed, people in general seem to know nothing whatever concerning him. In order to inform myself of Dr. Reed's work I have have decided to prepare this paper. I also feel that it is my duty to learn of Dr. Reed. He was …