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The Importance Of Extra Curricular Activities In The Chapel Hill High School, S. E. V. Baltimore

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Extra Curricular Activities in the rural High School has developed far beyond the pioneer athletic activities type. The earlier activities, such as baseball games, county fairs and Mothers' Club programs, served as most useful purpose in bringing to light the pressing need for the improvement of the recreational opportunities fostered by the school. It is evident that if gain is to be permanent there must be developed a comprehensive educational program reaching not only the children but also parents, teachers and social workers

This study gives not only a survey of the present extra curricular program of the Chapel Hill …

"A Survey Of The Rural Homes Of The St. Paul Neighborhood Noting The General Living Conditions", Wenonah L. Gant Mathis

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The St. Paul neighborhood is located three and one half miles west of the town of Hempstead in Waller County. To find this neighborhood, one must go west from Hempstead, following the Austin branch railroad, to a distance of three and one half miles. This leads one to the St. Paul neighborhood.

This neighborhood is not so very large. It runs a distance of about three miles in an east-to-west direction, and about two miles in a north-to south direction. There are twenty-eight homes located in this neighborhood.

The writer is a home-owner in this neighborhood, having lived there for …

The Effect Of Various Cleansing Agents On Fibers, Venella M. Basey

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Because the life of an article of clothing may be prolonged by good care, it is necessary to know how to take care of one's clothing. Hence it is necessary to know when, where and how to use various cleansing agents on different fibers.

An old or out of style garment may, still be, if properly cleaned of service to the wearer. Therefore the purpose of this paper is to present the results of the use of various cleansing agents, after careful experimentation.

In experimenting the author tried to include that which is most interesting and important for others as …

Teaching Of Health In The Pipkin School, Vida Blunett Reed Young

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The growing demand for reliable information on health Education to be used in the public school are being used in the public schools of Texas. It has stimulated the Director of the Bureau of Child Hygiene and his staff to work up this outline of a health program for the elementary grades of the public schools of Texas. The success of our entire educational system is fundamentally dependent upon health which can be secured primarily by adhering to the principles and facts in this Thesis. Health largely determines the factors of interest end endurance. Interest and endurance largely determine efficiency …

The Care And Training Of The Pre-School Child, Leola Augustine Bryant

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The youth of a nation are the trustees of prosperity. In keeping with the idea of youth as trustees of posterity, Dr. Solomb believes that the proper time to begin training an infant is, indeed, twenty years before he is born, and in order to train infants properly, the parents themselves must have be in properly trained. It is generally stated that being a parent is the biggest job in the world. The job of being a parent must have some end and goal; otherwise, it is on a plane with the uncertain work of a casual laborer. This aim …

Measures Of Musical Talents Of Selected Fifth, Sixth, And Seventh Grade Pupils Of The West District School, Galveston, Texas, Thelma Theresa Bailey

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In the large cities the most natural solution is the employment of a consulting supervisor of music, who shall be given general charge of the organization of surveys, the adjustment of the curriculum for the introduction of the tests and exercises, the planning of follow-up work, the giving of individual counsel and more intensive examinations, and the adjustment of groupings for instruction in the public schools on the basis of ascertained talent.

In the smaller cities, towns and communities we must trust to the leadership of some one or more teachers who take on those responsibilities in addition to their …

A Study Of The Availability For Visual Instruction In The Public Schools Of Bowie County, Nexcy Mae Cannon Sowell

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Visual education may be defined as the process of training through seeing experiences. "Seeing is believing" is an adage as ancient as civilization} it originated with the fact that knowledge first case through sight. The eye is the most retentive as well as the most observant of the human senses. Oral methods may have been the first means of transferring ideas but as we know, all contacts were not face-to-face contacts, and other means were needed for transferring ideas} so we find people using picture writing. The caveman primarily printed the walls of his cave and made pictures upon the …

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.

SOURCES OF DATA:

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.

Nature

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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