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The Importance And Influence Of Edgar Allan Poe In European Literature, Milo J. Mcginley

Bachelors’ Theses

The reputation of a truly great literary artist is never confined to one particular country. Although the man may write of the country in which he is born and lives and his methods may be influenced by the country, nevertheless if he is great his reputation and appreciation is bound to become universal. Appreciation of art differs not to a great extent but rather to a slight extent. Real art is seldom lost, it is bound to be found even though the finding may take time. Some art, like the pearl, is hidden deep in the sea and is found …

Some Phases Of Silent Reading, Katherine Moran

Bachelors’ Theses

Everywhere and at all times we are confronted with the necessity for reading and for making use of what we read. We do occasionally find ourselves doing some oral reading but that need arises very seldom. The business man reads his newspaper on his way to work. If he is a slow reader he must be satisfied with glancing over the headlines in the brief time allotted to him but if he can read rapidly he can do much more. When he is reading his morning mail he can save time if he is sure that he is not missing …

Platonic And Aristotelian Universal Concepts, George E. Toner

Bachelors’ Theses

Presenting a subject as abstract as that of Universal Concepts would indeed be tiresome, were it not for the direct almost personal contact with two of the greatest sages that found their problems and solved them while Philosophy was still in its infancy. Plato and his brilliant scholar Aristotle stand out as radiant figures on a somber background, for they did not think for their own age only. Even today in what is called this modern day and age, frequent reference is made to one or another of their theories. It seems strange that pupil and master should have been …

Bond Valuation, Millard Wessel

Bachelors’ Theses

In the investment field today, the thing most strikingly noticeable is the lack of knowledge of the principles back of investment. This is brought out more clearly day by day as the number of business failures multiply. The purpose of this paper is to show to the investor the methods used and advocated by expert financiers and accountants on the general sμbject of bond valuation. The subject of bond valuation includes: A. The Problem of Amortization. B. Calculation of the Purchase Price of a Bond. C. Determination of the Investment Rate. D. The Treatment of Bonds Redeemable in Installments.

The Reorganization Of Jeopardized Business Concerns, Robert E. Pierce

Bachelors’ Theses

The question of reorganization is, and has been for ·a period 6f several years, a topic - of great interest. Not only have numerous small businesses failed during the last three or four years, but numerous larger businesses and corporations have encountered such severe reverses that they have been compelled to reorganize their entire organizations.

The Foreign Debt Due The United States Government, Frank D. Winzenburg

Bachelors’ Theses

The era of sentimentalism among governments is past-- whatever may be said of idealism. The cold realities of the war have settled down upon every people. For ourselves we can not separate our motives and say: this we did in defense of rights contravened on the high seas--that we did to make the world "safe for democracy." The fighting is over, peace is declared, but the war remains with us in its costs and burdens, and will so remain for more than a generation. Every people knows this--some feel it far more sensibly than our own. Complete acceptance of the …

Health And Safety In Modern Industrial Relations, Donald Kehr

Bachelors’ Theses

The development of power driven machinery has meant the division and subdivision of operation until the tending, feeding and minding of machines becomes a significant part of all the work required in a factory.

The Gift Of Teaching, Anthony C. Katze-Miller

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the object of the present Thesis, first, to prove the reality of the Gift of Teaching; to analyze it, or to determine the elements of which it is composed, and thirdly, to show how it may be cultivated and improved, or even acquired, where it is naturally wanting.

The Investment Trust And The American Investor, Anthony B. Ronzani

Bachelors’ Theses

We Americans are familiar with the term "trust" in many different forms, but as yet, not to any great extent under the name or an "investment trust." We are fairly cognizant of such forms as: the trust company, trusts, express trusts, equipment trusts, and trusts under wills. Writers on the subject of "trusts" have defined the term in different ways. Sometime they mean °legal trusts," the form taken by the great prototype, the Standard Oil Company. In such a sense a trust may be defined as an organization managed by a board of trustees to whom all the capital stock …

No Par Value Stock, Nathan Weinberg

Bachelors’ Theses

"Capital stock, whether of the type that represents all the assets of the corporation or the type that represents merely the residual equity after all other claims have been satisfied, involves two distinct ideas--a participation in the rights of ownership and a valuation in this anticipation. This latter is the par value. It is the less important. The stockholder can never collect, like the bondholder, the par value of his security from the corporation. Even though paid for in full and representing for a short time the full and actual value, the equality passes with the first business transaction, for …

Cost Accounts For The Contractor, Urban A. Pilon

Bachelors’ Theses

The author has selected the subject of Contractor's Cost Accounts because of the widely divergent opinions of those men who have written the few articles and books that are to be found on the subject, and because of the importance of this phase of accounting to the Contractor.

The author has, in his opinion, found most of the material written to be useless to the contractor because, while theoretically correct from an accounting standpoint, it is not practical enough to be put to use. There is either some essential part lacking, there is no check against error, or, as in …

Loans And Discounts, Ruth M. Thomas

Bachelors’ Theses

The rapid rise of industrial activity in the United States has led to the need of a sound credit structure in order to maintain and help business which has taken great leaps and bounds in the direction of consolidation of small interests. Business is now done on such a large scale that it is impossible to proceed without the assistance of outside financial aid, both for permanent capital and funds needed only in times of greater activity than the permanent investment can withstand. The ability to get this advancement of short time funds shows the credit which a concern has. …

There Is A Natural Law, Ambrose H. Sullivan Jr.

Bachelors’ Theses

Is this great cosmos in which we live controlled by blind unintelligent forces? Is it possible to concede that the unity of action of the forces of nature is the result of chance? Can the effect so produced be the result of mere accidental causes? There seems to be a lack of consistency between cause and effect, if such is the case. We cannot dismiss this by saying that it just happened! That is just evading the issue. Let us get down to bed rock principles and face this problem with an unprejudiced and unbiased mind. We have immediate and …

Farmers Co-Operative Marketing Associations, Lloyd Victor Weyenberg

Bachelors’ Theses

In the United States a large number of co-operative stores have been started at various times, but comparatively few of them have survived for a long period. However, it is not so much the consumer co-operative societies, but the farmers distributive or marketing societies in the United States, that we are interested in. The following chapters will deal exclusively with the co-operative marketing movement as it affects the farmers of the United States.

A Study Of The Lead-Sodium Alloy, Harrison Willmot

Bachelors’ Theses

The history of the alkali metal alloys does not indicate that researches into this particular field have been extensive and of a necessary consequence, methods and practices for the handling of the alkali metal alloys in general and for the sodium.

The Scholastic Concept Of The Human Soul, Harold Vincenz Shoenecker

Bachelors’ Theses

"If not here, then elsewhere," (Stoddard). Judging from a purely physical and material basis, death seems to be the end of all; but if we fix our thoughts upon that bit of consciousness within us, that something which recognizes the Moral Law within our breasts, that, which at some time or other has asked in many ways, "whence have I come, and whither will I go?", that something, does it exist? The mere fact that our consciousness prompts us along these lines, ought to encourage us to continue the thinking process, and look a little deeper into the questions, and …

The Feminine Characters In Schiller's Dramas, M. Thomas Dauner

Bachelors’ Theses

Woman's role in history shown by the great dramatic productions of the ancient and modern world. Schiller's feminine characters compared with Goethe's.

Farm Accounting, W. M. Daley

Bachelors’ Theses

From the literature on the subject nearly allot which has been published during the last five or six years, one might be led to believe that there was some thing strange and uncommon about keeping records of business transactions on the farm. In the last several years, many record book and bulletin on farm bookkeeping and farm costs have been published. With very few exceptions these bulletins deal with the subject from a purely statistical point of view, without involving principles of double entry book-keeping or the fundamentals of accounting theory. Very often they fail to provide for proper correlation …

Gerhart Hauptmann, The Novelist, Homer G. Deerhake

Bachelors’ Theses

A new period in German Literature arose about l880. This new form of literature replaced the old conser­vative form of Goethe and Schiller. This new period in German Literature has been called Modernism and has been represented by some as a knowing yet pure woman, in the attitude of advance, inspiring mankind by her perfection of all earthly beauty. Gerhart Hauptmann soon became a member of this group. The Modernists were generally looked upon as faithful adherents of the dogma of Naturalism, namely that man's destiny is unalterably shaped by his environment; human fete proceeds from a parallelogram of forces …

Trust Companies As Fiscal Agents For Corporations, Jerome J. De Brue

Bachelors’ Theses

A trust company is a corporation authorized by law to accept and execute trusts of various descriptions, or to act as trustee; a cor­poration empowered to act in a judiciary capacity. This is the primary meaning of the term "trust company."

The Investment Desirability Of Public Utility Securities, Byron G. Ansorge

Bachelors’ Theses

The development of the economic structure of the United States has brought into existence many new agencies and terms unknown a century ago. Industrial integration has caused changes in the business life of the nation today which viewed a century ago would have been considered extremely radical but which are, in reality, decidedly conservative aids in the stable progress of our economic institutions.

Origin Of Corporations And Their Development In The United States, Michael R. Barry

Bachelors’ Theses

This work is intended to be a treatise on the history and growth of private corporations as developed in the United States.

Investments, Harold Joseph Bruce

Bachelors’ Theses

From time to time in our industrial history certain groups of events occur and recur in close relation to each other; and this juxtaposition of events seems to bear approximately the same relation at each reoccurrance. Business expansion follows contraction; contraction follows expansion. The business cycle is a fact proved by past experience; its existence should be accepted as such by the investor and his actions guided accordingly.

American Banking And The Federal Reserve System, Frank J. Blommer

Bachelors’ Theses

The first National Bank was conceived and brought to reality by Alexander Hamilton, then Secretary of the Treasury. In a report to Congress, dated December 13th, 1790, he urged that a National Bank be established, and, in the same report, indicated the advantages resulting from banking in general and from a National Bank in particular, adding that the three existing banks could net be employed as a National Bank.

The Dramatic Technique Of John Galsworthy, Othmar A. Bittman

Bachelors’ Theses

Almost a score of years before Ibsen ushered in the New Drama with his monumental series of social dramas, he said: "The experience of all countries has sufficiently established the fact that dramatic art, in every age in which it has been cultivated, has in a higher degree than any other, shown itself an important factor in the education of the people--a very obvious explanation of which fact is to be found in the drama1 s more intimate and direct relation to reality; in other words, in its greater intelligibility and in its easier and more general accessibility to the …

The Personnel Problems Of A Modern Laundry, Gordon Adelmer Bishop

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the purpose of this thesis to aid owners of power laundries in the solution of the personnel problems which are confronting them daily.

Methods Of Depreciation, Leo J. Bieble

Bachelors’ Theses

The depreciation problem is one of the most important in modern business to-day. More and more business men are coming to realize this. Depreciation is involved in almost every business problem. It is an essential factor in rate making for railroad companies, and it is bound up with most questions of taxation. It is also concerned with all transactions involving the sale of most every business enterprise and with negotiations for the procuring of loans. In all studies of the balance sheets of the various types of businesses depreciation is found to affect their going value"

The Trade Paper And Business, Walter Belson

Bachelors’ Theses

Back in the days when man struck fire from flint and steel and gleamed his daily food from bush and stream, no such thing as collective industry existed. Personal industry directed solely toward a necessary objective, forms the humble background for that which we today blandly designate as "industry", without concerning ourselves particularly with the de­rivation of definition of the term.

Goodwill, Francis John Basso

Bachelors’ Theses

Goodwill is property in the eyes of the law and consists wholly of rights which may or may not have present exchangeable value. The rights growing out of all kinds of past effort in seeking profit, increase in value or other ad­vantage which may be capable of future profitable development sums itself into the true economic meaning of the term "Commercial Goodwill." The statute law and the common law protects these rights for the use and benefit of the owner Goodwill may include any or all such property as business con­nections associated with names, persons and places of business, trademarks, …

The Existence Of God, Lawrence Coughlin

Bachelors’ Theses

The proofs regarding the existence of God are of two kinds - the indirect and the direct. The former show that one's knowledge of God's existence is a necessary outcome of his rational being, while the latter present God to us as the only ultimate Sufficient Cause of the physical effects we perceive within and around us. Consequently, the indirect proofs are known to us as the moral argument, since they concern themselves with man's rational being - his intellect, and the direct proofs are termed, the metaphysical, because His existence as the ultimate Sufficient Cause is required by the …