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The Value Of Iron And Copper Found In Vegetables To The Human Body, Nadine Bennie Boggess

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The chemistry of nutrition has been found to play a prominent part in the understanding and control of life processes, it has acquired a very broad as well as far-reaching scientific significance. Half the struggle of life is a struggle for food. Chemistry of foods and nutrition has led to much experimentation regarding" the various contributing factors to life through food. It includes the study of both the ultimate and proximate composition of foods and also of the utilization of these foods by the body, as determined by feeding; experiments. It is significant in a study of this kind to …

Motivating An Individual Pupil Assignment Of Work In The Elementary Rural School, Lucille Laurene Hilliard Bradshaw

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The types of examples in whole numbers, fractions, and decimals are not equally difficult. The specific abilities required to do these examples are, therefore, not uniform in their ease and rate of development. There are thus many chances of irregularities in the building of general abilities. What makes results of instruction still more doubtful Is the well-known fact of large individual differences among pupils belonging to the same class. These conditions make it necessary If the teaching Is to be done economically frequently, to test the progress made in the development of specific and general abilities. This thesis has been …

Tests And Measurements In The Beaumont Negro Schools, Lula J. Benson

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PURPOSE OF THE STUDY:

The purpose of this study shall he (1) to present some facts regarding educational tests, and (2) to show how the Beaumont City Schools have made use of these devices in the promotion of education.

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Personal visits: to schools at regular periods during the school year for the purpose of giving tests.

Questionnaire to teachers and principals in the Beaumont system, and

Reports of supervisor to Superintendent and review of literature on educational research furnished the data Tor this thesis.

Health Education In The Fourth Grade Of Solomon M. Coles School Of Corpus Christi, Texas, Portia D. Moore

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The purpose of this report is to describe the course of study in health education and methods used by the teacher in her efforts to obtain the best results from the teaching of the course and to give an account of those results. This report is as vital to the public welfare and to physical efficiency as it is to the field of education.

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This is a descriptive type of thesis and the writer will earnestly endeavor to describe this situation so clearly and accurately that it will be entirely intelligible to all who may read it. This …

A Historical And Educational Analysis Of The Administration And Curriculum Of The Hempstead Negro School From 1867 To 1938: Inclusive, Buckner Sythias Luter

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Since the time needed to compile this study has been quite inclusive, it becomes necessary to show how the discovery of one fact eventually served as a lead for a second search and how the discovery through the second search still served as a lead to even a third search and so on until numerous discoveries had been made. In the very outset, the writer started with the idea in mind of developing what would be considered a satisfactory system of Permanent Personnel Records for the Hempstead Negro High School, and by so-doing discovered many interesting facts concerning the early …

A Study Of Some Of The Problems Of Settlement Of Crawford County, Kansas, Frank Layden

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The background of the settlement of Crawford County Kansas may be said to begin with the purchase of the Louisiana territory. The Indian migrations and settlement, the territorial government, Kansas in her early period of statehood are included bringing the study to the first white settlers of Crawford County.

The story of the organization of Crawford County involving, its first county officers is mentioned. The difficulty of the early settlers in securing land titles, and the methods adopted to secure titles from the Indians follows the usual course. The account of immigration from 1860 to 1865 was necessarily affected by …

Mathematical Operations Used In Ordinary Occupations And Suggestions For Incorporating Them In High-School Mathematics, W. R. Binns

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The purpose of this study is to determine the type problems in algebra, geometry, and general mathematics that are most frequently used by high school graduates. The applicability of these mathematical operations to ordinary problems of daily life is to be decided by means of a survey among high school graduates who have had courses in algebra and geometry. An enumeration and analysis of the type problems that are most used by these graduates will give a much better conception of what should be taught in a general mathematics course. This investigation proposes to apply the criterion of usability in …

Plant And Animal Materials Available For Study In A Course Of Biology In Cherryvale High School : With Methods Of Collecting, Preserving And Using These Materials, Warren Frederick Willey

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The biological materials considered were selected from the great variety of plant and animal life characteristic of the Cherryvale, Kansas, community.

These materials were studied by observing living specimens in the field and classroom and by working with preserved specimens in the laboratory. A brief discussion of the habits, habitats, and economic values of each group is given and methods of collecting, preserving and using available biological materials were compiled.

The animals found to be most plentiful and easily obtained for study were seventy species of insects belonging to eleven orders and forty-four families; thirteen species of dish belonging to …

Vocational Guidance As An Aspect Of Industrial Arts Teaching In The Negro Schools Of Oklahoma, Gandy W. Smith

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Excerpt: "In this study an attempt is made to present a program of vocational guidance to be conducted by Oklahoma Negro teachers of industrial arts. An attempt is also made to note the extent to which vocational guidance is offered in the Negro high schools of Oklahoma. Thirteen questionnaires were sent to the Negro high schools of Oklahoma offering industrial arts courses to determine the extent to which vocational guidance was offered in these schools. Three questionnaires were sent to Negro high schools in Missouri to get a sampling of the program in that state. The data for the program …

A Highschool Vocational Guidance Laboratory, Kermit William Hammer

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A Comparative Work-Program Of Certain Schools In North Dakota Cities Having A High School Enrollment Between 160-300, Elmer C. Johnson

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Political And Constitutional Development In India Since 1920, Clayton L. Baskin

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The Comparison Between Achievement In Consolidated Schools And One-Room Schools In Renville County, Henry G. Bell

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Elementary School Grouping For Better Mental Health, John J. Mcpherson

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A Survey Of Schools In Eddy County North Dakota, Olger Myhre

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Political Factional Strife In North Dakota From 1920-1932, Edward Converse Blackorby

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The Influence Of Old Norse Literature, Lauga Geir

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The Influence Of Old Norse Literature On Gordon Bottomley, Lauga Geir

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Adult Education Interests And Attitudes, Earl E. Clarke

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An Experimental Comparison Of The Effects Of Three Different Types Of Ideational Context On The Learning And Retention Of A Serial Motor Performance, Hermann F. Buegel

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The Irish Home Rule Bill Of 1886, M. Louis Galvin

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The Foreign Policy Of J. Ramsay Macdonald, John Benson

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The Personnel Relationships Of High School Teachers In North Dakota, William Lorentz Jacobson

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The People's College, Its Application To American Education And Conditions, Paul Henry Holm-Jensen

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A Study Of High School Commercial Contests, Howard Beecher Hovda

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Educational Survey Of Young People Between The Ages Of Twelve And Twenty Inclusive Not In School Attendance Brown County, South Dakota, Arthur Lawrence Loessin

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Slow-Learners In The Grand Forks Elementary Schools, David A. Williams

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Desirable Traits Of Clerical Employees, Andrew Leonard Sjoquist

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The Growing Opposition To The Reconstruction Policies During Grant's Administration, A. Eidon Joachim

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A Survey Of Work Programs In Nelson County Schools, Peter Arthur Egge

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