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The Preparation Of Methyl, Ethyl, And Borneol Glucoside, Florence Margaret Berger

Bachelors’ Theses

The present research was undertaken to find methods suitable for the preparation of methyl, ethyl, and borneol glucoside. The problem was to prepare methyl, ethyl, and borneol glucoside, and to determine their con­stants in regard to the melting point and optical rotation. These results were then compared to the results obtained by Emil Fischer and J. Hamalaienen.

Resistance To Staphylococcus Aureus In White Rats, Robina B. Langill

Bachelors’ Theses

An investigation of bibliographies shows that staphylococcus aureus in its pathogenic potentialities has been extensively investigated from varied points of view and with frequently conflicting results.

Staphylococcus aureus is most frequently associated with furuncles, wound infection, and minor skin abcesses. Occasionally, however, due to extreme lowered resistance or other conditions not fully understood, staphylococcus causes a septicaemia which is attended by an 80% mortality rate. Post-mortem examinations of the victims of such septicaemia show an extensive invasion of all organs of the body by the bacteria but more particularly a hyperplasia of the lymph nodes, the spleen and thymus, indicating …

Problems In Curriculum Of The Navasota High School, Frances Inez Mclewis

All Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to give an analysis of the present Navasota Colored High School, and in the light of my knowledge of curriculum revision, to offer such suggestions as may render the school more efficient in meeting pupils' needs. The data came from the written records of the Navasota High school, and the writer's own observations while practice teaching there. The following methods of procedure were used in collecting data: (1) A critical study of the written records, (2) Direct observations of activities in the school, (3) Interviews with teachers and citizens of Navasota, Texas.

A Proposed Guidance Program For Lincoln High School In Palestine, Texas, J. T. Smith

All Theses

This program guidance program has been prepared for Lincoln High School in Palestine, Texas. At present, the complexity of economic and social problems are so great that only a small cent of parents can solve them. Since the elementary and secondary schools are the mainstays of guidance purposes, the child should be prepared for a vocation of his choice, while attending these institutions. It has been found that many of the students of Lincoln High High School are influenced by the teachers as to what vocations to follow after graduation, but rich an effective guidance program, the students will receive …

The Spatial And Sustenance Position Of 204 Families Of The Hempstead Community, Jesse Hampton Sterling

All Theses

In observing our surroundings or in comparing one community with another, one is often made to wonder as to how certain phases of our surroundings or community come to be. Did these things just happen or is there some definite law as to the order of things? In observing the spatial and sustenance position of the population of a community one often wonders as to how this person came to live in this community? Why Is the population larger in this community than in another? Why is it that the population in this community is concentrated on one side of …

Suggestions For Introducing Homemaking Into Hilliard High School Bay City, Texas, Christine Bernice Roberts

All Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to construct a suggestive program for homemaking in Hilliard High School at Bay City, Texas.

Realizing that the home is the foundation upon which to plan and build for life and society, it is felt that to establish homemaking in the school would be the logical step to take.

It is the author's hope that the information found in this thesis may be helpful to teachers adventuring into fields of a similar nature, and that through these ideas other teachers shall be inspired to go into new fields and explore regions that have not …

A Study Of The Food Consumption Of Ten Rural Negro Families In Bowie County, Texas As To Expenditures For Food And Adequacy Of Diet, Millie Orezee Shavers

All Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the food expenditures of ten rural families in Bowie County, Texas to find out whether or not the amount of money spent serves its purpose in making the diet adequate. It also is to provide information for families with low incomes who are confronted with the problem of providing the diet that meets their needs.

Spectroscopic And Quantitative Determination Of Platinum, John W. Manning Iii

Chemistry Honors Papers

This 7 page thesis examines quantitative method and spectroscopic analysis of platinum.

Reflex Action In The Earthworm, As A Typical Example Of The Annelids, Morris L. Yoder Jr.

Biology Honors Papers

This 18 page thesis discusses the anatomy of the earthworm and importance of reflex actions, including responses to various stimuli and the role of the nerve cord.

Lumber To Be Used In The Modern American Home, Robert Bennett Blocker

All Theses

We are dealing with the facts that has to do with the properties of wood and also its characteristics. It then deals with the present methods of using woods in its various forms. We also take under consideration the large percentage of waste in the various stages, such as, logging, seasoning, sawing chemical conversion, and in manufacture, and the large losses by fire, insists marine borers, strains and decay.

On every hand we see evidence of steel, stone or concrete being used to replace wood. We find that in the last two decades that there has been a decrease in …

A Study Of The Opinions Of Forty Student College Men And Ten Faculty Men At Prairie View State College Regarding The Contribution Of Home Economics To Boys And Men, Bertha Lee Bell

All Theses

This thesis attempts to show some of the basic reasons why men fail to share their responsibilities in making home life success. At a time when every subject in our school curriculum is challenged to prove its worth, and when every teaching method is being submitted to critical examination, Home Economics has been called upon to justify its claims and examine its methods. Teachers and supervisors have been stimulated to as to what extent the work taught in school actually functions in the student's life, and especially in the lives of young men. Are practices that affect their health actually …

A Study Of Home Activities Of Twenty-Five Housewives In The Pierce Court District Of Houston, Texas, Johnnye Beatrice Shanklin

All Theses

The material in this study consists of an analysis of some home activities performed by twenty-five housewives in the district involved. The housewives who are included in this study consist of various groups as to professional status. Some are school teachers, housewives and the greatest number are common labor workers. These housewives' homes are located on pierce, Gray, and Webster Avenues in Houston, Texas. in view of the fact, that many of these housewives are in the professional class, it is interesting to note the differences in home activities performed by various homemakers. This study includes the following activities; 1. …

The Herods In The Opinion Of Comtemparay Writers, Clarence Bopp

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

Because the Herods were in power in Palestine at the time of Christ and His apostles, there are many references to them in the New Testament historical books. Most of these references record events which emphasize the character of a particular Herod. For this reason a study of the character of the various Herods is of as much importance to an understanding of the New Testament as is the study of events during their reigns. In this paper we have accordingly attempted not only to study the chief events which occurred under each Herod, but also to analyze the character …

Relationship Between Size Of Farm Business And Labor Income On Utah Farms, Milton S. Folkman

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Since the turn of the century there has been a trend within the State of Utah toward more and smaller farms. The original farm units taken up by the early settlers of this state have been divided and subdivided until Utah today has hundreds of uneconomical-sized farms too small to be operated profitably under their present organization.

A Study Of Bicameral And Unicameral State Legislative Systems, With Special Reference To Utah's Needs, Wendell Bryan Anderson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Legislatures originated to advise and subsequently to curb autocrats who claimed to rule under Divine mandate. The people's struggle through the centuries to build a bulwark against oppression and tyranny is particularized by Sparta's Senate, Athens Council and Assembly of Four Hundred, Rome's Senate of Elders and Comitis Curiate, Charlemangne's Imperial Assembly, and Saxon England's Witenagamot. The archeotype of America's lawmaking bodies, nevertheless, is not found in Greece or Rome, but rather in the British Parliament as it was anciently composed.

Engineering In Traffic Safety In Utah, Donald T. Hunter

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Traffic safety involves accident-free movement of physical entities. It includes all means of transportation and is a function of mobility, an important variable affecting directly the mortality rate and increase of accidents. All transportation groups have coincidentally with or without increase of mobility been attempting to reduce accidents. Those notably succeeding are the shipping, railroad, and airline interests. The operating motor vehicle and pedestrian groups have failed conspicuously.

The early means of attaining a better degree of traffic safety in the motor vehicle and pedestrian groups were based on opinions, and though rational, were incomplete because of the dynamic and …

A Study Of The Library Facilities And Personnel Of Five Selected High Schools Of Northern Utah, Clyde H. Morris

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

It is the purpose of the present study to determine, and, as far as possible, to evaluate in terms of the Cooperative Study of secondary School Standards the following items as found in 5 selected high school libraries in Northern Utah: (1) objectives, (2) library materials, including book collection, periodicals, pamphlets, clippings, bulletins, and visual aids, (3) organization and administration, including finances, library personnel, classification and cataloging, accessibility of the library, and the librarian's responsibilities, (4) selecting of library materials, (5) utilization of the library, (6) housing and equipping the library, and (7) special characteristics. Since an administrator must know …

A Comparison Of Transported With Non-Transported Pupils In The High Schools Of The Millard County School District, Golden P. Wright

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The transportation of pupils to and from our schools has grown by leaps and bounds during the past few years until now it has developed into an educational activity of major importance. The Utah school bus which collided with a freight train in November 1938 and carried 23 of its passengers to their death was but one of over 86,000 such motor vehicles in operation in the United States during the school year of 1938-1939. Approximately 4,000,000 school children rode these buses daily over school-bus routes that extended in excess of 1,000,000,000 miles. the annual expense for this transportation was …

A Survey Of Human Intestinal Protozoa Of Logan City And Vicinity, Robert B. Harrison

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Parasitic protozoa of the intestinal tract of man were first observed by Anthony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), a Dutch microscopist. In the year 1681, while observing his own excrement, Leeuwenhoek discovered and described certain forms of life which he called "animalcules" and which were verified later by workers in protozoology as Giardia lamblia, a protozoan parasite of the intestinal tract. During the period preceding the later part of the 19th century many observations of the parasitic intestinal protozoa of men and lower animals were made and many species were classified. It wasn't, however, until the year 1875 that a protozoan …

The Development Of Equalization And Assessment In Utah With Special Reference To The Assessment Of Rural Lands In Cache County, Theodore R. Maughan

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Uniformity of assessments and equity in the taxation of all tangible property within the state has long been the ideal of the people of Utah, yet the history of equalization and assessment is replete with the effective blocking - by pressure groups - of attainment of this ideal. Taxing officials, in general, and students of taxation, in particular, have repeatedly pointed out gross inequalities and rank injustices in our assessing system which should be corrected. But, selfish interest plus ignorance on the part of the taxpayer has permitted these abuses to remain in our taxing system. An accidental, hit-and-miss, guess …

Certain Factors In Relation To The Present Occupational Status Of Former All-Day Students Of Vocational Agriculture In Utah, Mark Nichols

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Vocational agriculture had its birth in Utah rural high schools in the spring of 1918. It is a program for training present and future farmers for proficiency in agriculture. The instruction in Utah, as in most states, has been devoted to the training of all-day (high school) students.

Since 1918 considerably over one million dollars of federal, state and local funds have been expended for all-day instruction in vocational agriculture in Utah. The primary objective of the program is to train these boys to become farmers or farm leaders. From time to time the following questions have been asked: Do …

Comparison Of Various Types Of Milk Sampling Devices, William A. Hoskisson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The importance of an accurate measurement of fat in milk deliveries is fully appreciated by most producers and plant operators. Since milk is purchased on a fat basis, the accuracy of the procedure used in sampling and testing the milk has often been questioned by both the buyer and seller.

A composite sample to be theoretically correct, should consist of aliquot portions of the milk shipments represented. Where aliquot portions are to be taken, a milk thief is commonly suggested. This device takes a vertical column of milk from the weigh tank. The idea is that the height of the …

Bulk Hybridization Of Smooth Bromegrass (Bromus Inermis), Wayne E. Domingo

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Large populations of controlled hybrids are essential to the most rapid progress in many phases of plant breeding programs. Plant species vary in the ease with which they may be hybridized. Hand hybridization of forage grasses is usually slow and laborious, and the minuteness of the floral parts of most of the species which have perfect flowers renders their hybridization by hand especially difficult and tedious. This difficulty limits the use that forage grass breeders are making of the significant principles of hybridization and thereby retards progress in this phase of plant breeding. Any dependable, rapid technique of hybridization which …

Inheritance Studies And Possible Linkage Relationships In Barley Involving Five Factor Pairs, Freeman J. Byington

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Many studies on inheritance in barley have been made, but very little progress has as yet been obtained. Barley in many ways is an attractive plant with which to make inheritance studies. Unlike common wheat with 21 chromosome pairs and few distinct characters, barley has only 7 chromosome pairs and consequently only 7 possible linkage groups and many distinct characters that may be readily recognized. The chief difficulty is that many of these characters cannot be readily classified because a number of factors may be responsible for their production.

The purpose of this project has been to study in considerable …

A Study To Determine The Factors Affecting Efficiency In Use Of Irrigation Water In Weber County, Utah. 1938, Archie L. Christiansen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Utah has two major natural resources, land and water. Because these do not, when separated, have the same agricultural value as when used jointly by separation each loses much of its significance.

Noel Coward's Contribution To The Comedy Of Manners., Clara-Marie Doughtry

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

An estimate of Noel Coward's contribution to the comedy of manners necessitates an understanding of: (1) the nature and the place of the comedy of manners in modern drama, (2) Noel Coward's background, and (3) an analysis of Noel Coward's formula for the comedy of manners. We find in the material relating to modern drama. little discussion of the comedy of manners. Occasionally plays may be mentioned as comedies of manners, but there is no discussion as to the specific nature of the comedy of manners in modern drama. The only book that discusses fully the comedy of manners in …

John Letcher, J. Monroe Wells Jr.

Honors Theses

This monograph will present to its reader a biographical study of a man who is little known--John Letcher, Civil War Governor of Virginia. The Civil War is, to date, the most important episode in the history of these United States. From tis internal upheaval evolved a great and compact nation. From the opening volley at Sumter to the surrender at Appomattox, Virginia was in a position of importance. It was the main objective of the Federal Government, since the Capitol of the Confederacy was at Richmond. Throughout this turmoil there was a leader and a statesman in the governor's chair. …

A Study Of The Adaptability Of Home Economics Courses To The Community Needs Of Washington County, Ruby Ophelia Browne

All Theses

The purpose of this study is to reveal the actual value of the Home Economics work to the needs of the communities as it is being taught in three schools in Washington County.

A realization of this purpose has been attempted by finding out the point of view of the parents in each community toward Home Economics work, and also to find out from each teacher what she would like parents to know in order to facilitate cooperation in solving their problems through Home Economics work.

The writer hopes to obtain worthwhile information for the following reasons: 1. To collect …

Planning And Building A Home, Alton Marie Britt

All Theses

Shelter like food and clothing, is one of our fundamental needs. There are many problems, sanitary, economic, social and architectual, involved in a consideration of shelter. There are two considerations of prime importance which should influence every decision made in connection with the selection of a house. First, the primary use of a house is for protection, it is what we put between us and the world. Second, the house is our base, the point from which we make our contacts with the world, the place where we recover from our daily struggles and prepare for them, the place from …

The Biological Foundation Of The Social Science, Bobbye Allen Lawrie

All Theses

The purpose of this study is to show the significance of the following four principle biological factors to the social sciences as they affect the United States. These are first, reproduction and fecundity which are the processes of maintaining the human species by the transmission of life from one individual to a succession of new ones.^" Second, heredity, the tendency of all species to reproduce offspring after its own kind; the transmission of genetic factors from parents to offspring. Third, variation, which is the tendency of the members of any species to varying one from another. Fourth, natural selection, or …