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A Method Of Determining The Intrinsic Difficulty Of A Song For The Tenor Voice, Vincent Joyce Dodge

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A History Of Boley, Oklahoma, Velma Dolphin-Ashley

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Excerpt: "This thesis is a study of the all Negro town of Boley located in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. The study is principally a social one that stresses particularly the economic and social status of the people living there. The various schools, churches, clubs, and lodges of the town have given it a greater cultural value because they have been conducted as they have. The disturbances in these various social units have definitely contributed to the molding of civic pride and loyalty within the community. By their disturbances they have learned the importance of cooperation which is immediately manifested when the …

A Historical Study Of The Malpighian Tubules Of Gryllus Assimilis, Charlie A. Sims

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Up to this time several investigations have been reported upon the structure of the excretory system in various orthoptera, particularly in Acrididae (Schindler 1878; Tietz '23, Faussez, 1887), in Gryllidae (Sayce, 1899; Bordas, '02, '13 and in Blattidae (Miall and Benny, 1886). They differed in nearly every instance as to the anatomy and histology of the malpighian tubules.⁷ Stuart made an anatomical and a histological study of the malpighian tubules in Melanoplus differentialis. He described the malpighian tubules as being long flexuous, thread like structures about 172 to 312 in number, lying with their ends free in the body …

Health Program For Spot Taylor Rural School Community Based On Its Environmental Influences, Juanita C. Agent

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The experiences of the writer in the field of health activities in schools has forced her to the conclusion that the fundamental basis for school health programs should be a well-planned program for health instruction, and that other health activities as such should be secondary. There should, however, be a correlation between the two. Permanent improvement in child health and in adult health will come through instruction in the habits of healthful living. Having organized our health program on this basis, definite improvement of health habits in the children have been noted, which have given the children valuable health knowledge …

A Study And Analysis Of The Vocabulary Section Of Two Hundred Five Cases Of The Prairie View English Placement Test - Form Iii, Supplemented By An Analysis Of The Written Composition Of Two Sections Of The Second Semester Freshman English, Thomas Willie Mosely

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This thesis contains a study of some aspects of freshman English as taught at Prairie View State College during the semester of 1939-1940.

The contents of the folders of thirty-seven students was studied to determine the prevalence of certain errors.

This thesis also contains a study of the Vocabulary Section of the Freshman English Placement Test. This study was made for the purpose of showing the error frequencies made by one hundred five freshmen students in the Vocabulary Section of the Freshman English Placement Test - Form III, including tables III and IV to show a comparison between the superior …

A Study Of The Deficiency Of Food Consumption In Twenty-Five Families In Two Communities In Brazoria County, Texas, Louise Williams

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Every child should have the privilege of having good nutrition. It is well known that sufficient quantity of good and wholesome food is the "body's first need. The famous Bill of Rights for children created by President Herbert Hoover, states that there should be no child in America to suffer from undernourishment. Many diseases may be traced to some fault in the diet or food habits of the individual. The underlying causes of malnutrition have been stated to be ignorance, lack of home control, and poverty. These are the home or community conditions responsible for the factors actually causing the …

A Tentative Guidance Program For The Negro Junior High School Grade Levels Of Texas, Ossalee Veda Punche

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Guidance is one of the major functions of the Junior High School. Recognition of individual differences in ability, aptitudes and interests, and varied curriculum, to meet these differences require that the Junior High School give the students opportunities for making choices. Choice, then, on the part of students implies a type of guidance so that they may select the types of subjects that will have the greatest values for them.

The curriculum should be worked out to give wide and varied contacts with social and economic activities of the community. The problem of this thesis, then, centers around the following …

A Coordinating Community Program In Westside Houston With Harper Junior High School The Center Of Interest, William L. Davis

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A Survey Of The Graduates From The Home Economics Department Of Phyllis Wheatley High School San Antonio, Texas, Bessie Marguerite Townsend

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There has been much difference of opinion as to the practical value of high school home economics training and whether it can be used as a vocation after school days, or to supplement living expenses during high school and college days. This is a question that requires a great deal of study, because without facts at hand, no justifiable conclusion can be drawn. Educators must know more about homemaking courses that are offered, and how many persons, elect or required to take them. Information must be secured about the nature of the jobs which the graduates or ex-students have held. …

Uses And Value Of Seatwork Materials In Arithmetic In The Primary Grades, Crezetta Mosley Smith

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Seatwork material has been designed as one of the best possible means for doing effective work in the schoolroom in the primary grades. Books and educational periodicals introduce the uses and results of it, and as the years pass new and better ideas of its uses are given. The up to date teacher takes advantage of these new ideas by making use of them. Consequently the use of seatwork material has found its way to many schoolrooms and has marked a constant change and improvement in teaching. The teacher who tries to understand how children learn and why some don't …

A Survey Of The Physical Aspects Of Twenty Rural Homes In Wood County, Emma Lillian Montgomery

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In a study of this kind the writer feels that there must be some basic facts from which to work: therefore, a survey was made of twenty Negro farm homes in Wood county to determine facts as indicated by a questionnaire form.

These families are located within the rural section of Quitman, Texas, a town located in Northeast Texas.

The families included in this study rank in various groups as to professional status, some are school teachers, however, the greatest number are farmers.

There has been no definite study made of the exterior conditions of Negro homes in this county, …

A Program Of Homemaking Education For Chester High School, Chester, Texas, Esther Ruth Bennette

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The problem of constructing a course in Homemaking Education is a new feature of curriculum building. Experts have been able to set up goals and aims, but they have not been able to set up a definite catalogue of activities that could be recommended. Different locations present different problems and would of necessity require different modes of attack and would, in the final analysis lead to different outcomes. The basic interrogation then is, "What is the problem or what are the problems involved?"

In this thesis the writer's problem may be expressed in the following questions: 1. What are the …

A Study Of The Relationship Of Clothing To The Pre-School Child's Health And Behavior On Prairie View's Campus, Velma Terry

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There are many problems concerning the modern mothers in the selecting of children's clothing; namely, selecting those clothes and styles that are "best suited to the child's personality, and to the color of his hair, eyes, and complexion. The parents must also consider the selection from psychological and hygenic stand points; therefore, the child's behavior is influenced by the style of the garment he wears, as well as his health.

Because of the many problems concerning the modern mothers, in the selecting of children's clothes, the writer feels that the importance of selecting the right styles to suit the child's …

A Study Of The Sanitary Conditions Of The Home Environment Of The New Waverly District Children With A Planned Program For Improvement, Lillian Blair Bryant

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The Problem Defined- This problem purports to make a study of the sanitary conditions of the home environment of the New Waverly District children.

Sub-Problem- To set up a planned program for improvement of sanitation.

Purpose of the Problem- To improve the sanitary conditions of the New Waverly District children so as to set up a more efficient standard of living.

Limitation - They are engaged in farming. About eighty-five of the one hundred and thirty-two families are without the improved type of toilet. 50 percent of the colored schools are without them. Seventy percent of the water supply that …

Five Special Techniques That May Be Used In Building An Extra-Curricular Activity Program In A Small Rural High School, Roberta Johnson Brown

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Although widely used the term Extra-Curricular Activities is misleading. Its origin dates back to the time when the purpose of the school was conceived to be to teach the subjects contained in the program of studies. Good teaching was understood to be to teach a combination of skills. The recitation method was the accepted procedure. Such student organization as were in existence were looked upon in addition to the curriculum as serving another purpose and hence were extra-curricular activities.

The school has come to realize the important distinction between the mastery of school tasks, and the training that takes place …

An Experiment In Unit Teaching, Rowena Weatherly

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As a teacher in a small rural school for the past four years, I have gotten much knowledge from experience. After observation and examination of school lunches, listening to discussions of patrons of the school and visiting in the homes, I was led to believe that the parents did not know how to properly feed their children. Since proper feeding id a factor of vital importance in the health of individuals, the conditions that existed in the community were both interesting and serious.

This thesis is based on a study made in the Lincolnville community at Gatesville, Texas. In this …

Improving The Curriculum In M. R. Wood Negro School In Sugar Land, Texas, Charlotte M. Mayfield

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There is a division of opinion as to merits and the purposes of the village school of the present. Many persons who attended one and two-teacher schools at the beginning of the century are of the opinion that the modern village school is inferior to the village school of thirty years ago. Some think that the curriculum of the small school is inadequate in that it attempts to teach subject matter drawn largely from an urban situation. In many respects the present-day rural school is better than the rural school before 1900.¹ The physical plants are better equipped; the …

The National Youth Administration: The Administration And Organization Of The Program In North Dakota With Particular Emphasis On The Resident Training Homes For Girls, Edgar Barlien Evenson

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A Study Of The Government Of The City Of Oberlin, Kansas, Jack S. Cronk

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The primary aim of the writer in preparing this thesis has been to investigate the various departments of government of the city of Oberlin, Kansas. This study was not made from the viewpoint of the critical observer interested in uncovering either outstanding efficiencies or inefficiencies. The material presented is submitted for the purpose of collaborating practical knowledge with theoretical knowledge in the study of municipal government.

The Effect Of Clipping And Weed Competition Upon The Spread Of Pasture Grass Seedlings, Cecil L. Hase

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The drought of the last seven years with its disastrous dust storms has damaged vast areas of the native prairie as well as much of the cultivated land. Deficient rainfall has caused crop failures over large areas, leaving the fields without a protective covering. Due to these conditions, wind erosion started the dry, loose soil to drifting. Large amounts of the soil settled on the grassland and destroyed much of the native plant cover. Where t e native vegetation was weakened or destroyed, the soil was invaded by such weedy annuals as lambsquarter (Chenopodium sp. ) , Russian thistle (Salsola …

Sectionalism And Local Color In The Short Stories Of The Plains States, 1870-1938, Nelle Dooley

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Robert Ramsay in his Short Stories of America has mapped out the United States in twenty- five literary groups . He has left without sectional designation a strip through the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas and has shaded it on his literary map of local color regions as "neutral". This, "a region unexplored or explored but unsuccessfully as yet, “is to be known in this study as the Plains States. The strip will be broadened out to reach the boundaries of these states, thus including small portions of the sections which Professor Ramsay designates as the Corn Belt and …

Real Property Assessment Variations In Dickinson County, Kansas, And Their Effect On School Finance, Robert B. Gilkison

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The problem of this thesis is indicated in the title, "Real Property Assessment Variations in Dickinson County Kansas and Their effect on School Finance.” This problem will be considered under two major phases: (1) a critical analysis of the 1938 assessment of all rural real property in Dickinson County, Kansas to determine what irregularities exist and what the cause for these irregularities appear to be, and (2) to ascertain the effect of these inequalities upon the financing of the public schools of the county. The schools in the two second class cities of the county will not be included in …

An Analysis Of Seed Production Of Native Kansas Grasses During The Drought Of 1939, Lester R. Branson

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The present interest in the control of soil erosion and the stabilization of agriculture has initiated a great amount of research to find suitable grasses and methods for restoring grass production. The results of these investigations have shown that the native climax grasses are best suited for reseeding in arid and semi-arid regions

The Life History And Habits Of Buffalo Grass, John J. Webb

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides) is a dioecious, stoloniferous perennial which, with Blue Grama grass (Bouteloua gracilis), forms the short grass faciation of the Great Plains. Its range extends from Saskatchewan to Mexico in the plains area. It is exceedingly valuable as forage, both during the growing season and winter, since cured grass is relished by livestock. Its stoloniferous habits make it an aggressive plant, and give it great soil-biding properties. This species of grass has vast possibilities in revegetation practices. A study of its life-history should be of benefit to conservationists as well as to agrostologists and taxonomists. There is …

The Unit Plan Versus The Textbook Plan Of Teaching Arithmetic To Seventh And Eighth Grade Pupils, Arthur P. Harvey

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The present day trends in education seem to indicate the desirability of its becoming more and more a socialized education. This trend will no doubt have a more significant bearing on some subjects or studies in the school curriculum than on other subjects. The Kansas public elementary schools have recently adopted a Unit Program in School Studies, which includes history, civics, geography, science, and hygiene in an attempt to contribute better to the socialized idea. This Unit Program, however, does not make direct provision for English, spelling, arithmetic, and penmanship .Naturally, perhaps, comes the question to many teachers of why …

An Investigation Of Spelling Difficulties In The Elementary Grades, Carlyle P. Wetlaufer

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

It is easy to observe errors in spelling, but difficult to understand why they exist. The problem of this thesis is an investigation of spelling difficulties in the elementary grades. More specifically the problem is a study of spelling errors in relation to a pupil's spelling achievement; to record and classify the errors made end their frequency in grades two to eight inclusive ; also the variation in the percentage of spelling errors of each word in each test in any given grade as a means of grade placement for words in spelling. Probably in few other elementary school subjects …

A Study Of The Effect Of Home Work On Seventh And Eighth Grade Achievement In Arithmetic, M. Remigia Neder Sr.

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Until rather recent years home study or home work has been an integral part of the school program. Simultaneous with the increase in the complexities of our modern social life, the school curriculum of today has been undergoing a gradual change. Such outstanding social occurrences of modern times as industrialization, urbanization of our people, and newer methods in transportation and communication have been greatly accountable for the transfer of so many of the early responsibilities of the home to the school. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of homework on seventh and eighth grade achievement in …

The Attitude Of The American People Toward War As Expressed In "The Saturday Evening Post" And "Atlantic Monthly" Magazines During The Years 1938 And 1939, Marion Franklin Coulson

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

It was the purpose of this study to discover the attitude of the American people (including various classes from the common laborer to the President) toward war as expressed in a limited body of current literature. The materials concerning war published in the Saturday Evening Post and the Atlantic Monthly magazines during the years 1938 and 1939 have been chosen for this purpose.

A Survey Of Guidance Practices In The Secondary Schools In The State Of Kansas, Randall W. Gallion

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The general problem of this thesis is an investigation of what is now being done in secondary schools of the State of Kansas in fulfilling their obligation as stated. More specifically, the thesis investigates what the high schools of the state are really doing with the problem of guidance.

A Study In Physical Education Trends From 1914 To 1939 In Four Selected Schools Of Higher Learning, James Thomas Sampson

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

A study of physical education trends for the last twenty-five years is a subject that offers varied possibilities. There are many aspects of the problem, any one of which furnishes a wealth of material. Many reports and articles have been written to show the sociological and physiological benefits of a well-rounded physical education program. Histories on the rise and growth of physical education throughout the nation are studied in many schools of higher learning. The particular problem of this thesis is, “A Study in Physical Education Trends from 1914 to 1939 in Four Selected Schools of Higher Learning."