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Character Building Through Literature, Mary Ignatia Wiesner Jun 1928

Character Building Through Literature, Mary Ignatia Wiesner

Bachelors’ Theses

To make straight the paths for the poets, and the critics, the terms literature and character shall be defined, the extent, as well as the limitation, of the influence of literature on character outlined, and a method of approach to the study of literature discussed. First, then, there will be a discussion of terms, then the opinions of writers on the moral values of literature, and finally, in the light of this discussion, this paper will attempt to show whether these writers claim more for literature than it actually can and does accomplish, and just how literature can be made …

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Historical Development And Present Status Of Education For Crippled Children, Lucile A. Wallace Jun 1928

Historical Development And Present Status Of Education For Crippled Children, Lucile A. Wallace

Bachelors’ Theses

The new science of history is not so much interested in past events as it is in the record of the developing capacity of the human mind to transform its own experiences into the things which are valuable to the advancement of the human race. In this process of scientific transformation, education has played, through the ages, a most prominent part; and educators, assuming this interpretative role in the drama of life, have produced the modern science of learning. It seems highly important, therefore, that the historical steps in the development of corrective and special education be given, and that …

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Free Will Versus Determinism, Alfred Joseph Biagi Jun 1928

Free Will Versus Determinism, Alfred Joseph Biagi

Bachelors’ Theses

Philosophy stretching down from the time of Thales its father, who lived in the sixth century B.C. has continuously grappled with problems of man and the universe. Almost from its very beginnings speculation arose over the question of human freedom -- resulting in the overlasting contest between determinist and libertarian -- a contest which is becoming more and more acute with the modern developments in physical and mental science.

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Is Death The End?, Edward T. O'Neill Jun 1928

Is Death The End?, Edward T. O'Neill

Bachelors’ Theses

In asking the great question, Is death the end, I understand that I am entering upon the very specific inquiry at to whether death is the end of ourselves as separate and distinct individualities. In discussing immortality, I assume that I am discussing the survival of the human soul, after the dissolution of the body, in the full retention of its conscious identity. In this I follow the same interpretation of the essential problem involved that Professor Josiah Royce lays down in his "The Conception of Immortality."

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The Norm Of Morality, Francis J. Laczniak Jun 1928

The Norm Of Morality, Francis J. Laczniak

Bachelors’ Theses

Acts are termed human when they are proper to man as man,when on the contrary they are elicited by man but not proper to him as a rational agent, they are called acts of man. Human act is one that is accompanied with freedom and deliberation of the will. Some acts in the abstract are neither good nor bad for they are neither conformable nor contrary to a moral norm, and these are said to be indifferent. It is universally admitted that there are actions that are morally good and actions that are morally evil. We can bring that out …

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Epicureanism In The Georgics, Ruth Agnes Crawford Jun 1928

Epicureanism In The Georgics, Ruth Agnes Crawford

Bachelors’ Theses

Vergil, the Latin poet who has had more influence on literature throughout the ages than any other Latin writer, was born in 70 B.C . He lived during the reign of Augustus Caesar, which was a time of peace and great prosperity. Augustus, in furtherance of his country's prosperity, encouraged literature and raised it to a standard previously unknown in Roman history. Vergil, then, wrote under very favorable circumstances. This era which produced so much culture fostered three philosophies which naturally influenced all the writers of the time. It is only reasonable to suppose that Vergil was affected by one …

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The Use Of The Chemico-Pathology Laboratory In The Dental Clinic, Matilda Mary Steinbrecher Jan 1928

The Use Of The Chemico-Pathology Laboratory In The Dental Clinic, Matilda Mary Steinbrecher

Bachelors’ Theses

The reason why the practice of dentistry is sometimes criticized to-day is because it was separated from the practice of medicine at a time when mouth disorder as a cause of systemic disease was not recognized, and mechanical restoration of teeth was made the foundation of dentistry. The keynote in judging a man's ability was by the expertness of his mechanical skill. This attitude toward dentistry, not only by the medical men but by the laity as well, has been a regrettable weakness in the dental profession. The dentist's work was regarded as entirely mechanical and for the purpose of …

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The Dramas Of Claudel: A Study Of Mysticism., Margaret Frances Ryan Jul 1927

The Dramas Of Claudel: A Study Of Mysticism., Margaret Frances Ryan

Bachelors’ Theses

Do to the fact that Paul c·1audel is still living, and is still in the prime of life, there has been no extensive work done by critics and biographers on this author and his works. There have been, as yet, no entire books written on the subject. It has been said that no man is ever acknowledged to be really great until after his death. Perhaps this holds true in the case of Paul Claudel, man of a affairs and -writer of miracle plays. In France, hie native country, he is known as a great poet by many, but due …

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On The Beautiful And Its Relation To The Good, John Joseph Jermain Jul 1927

On The Beautiful And Its Relation To The Good, John Joseph Jermain

Bachelors’ Theses

When one essays a dissertation on some profound subject, such as The Beautiful and its relation to the Good, he may well begin with an analysis or exposition of the Beautiful. The first question to be answered is, "What do men mean when, viewing some object or event, they say, 'That is beautiful?'" They express themselves in these words when there is present to them some landscape tinted with the sun is fair rays or affording the mellow moonbeams an object upon which to shower their splendor. The fine arts, painting, sculpture, architecture and music evoke such an expression of …

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Valuable An Permanent Home Circulation For Daily Newspapers Is Best Acquired And Retained By The Exercise Of The Best Business Methods And Ethics And Application Of The Principle That The Newspaper Should Be Wanted For Itself Or For Something Which Is An Integral Part Of It, Thomas Riddell Sankey Jun 1927

Valuable An Permanent Home Circulation For Daily Newspapers Is Best Acquired And Retained By The Exercise Of The Best Business Methods And Ethics And Application Of The Principle That The Newspaper Should Be Wanted For Itself Or For Something Which Is An Integral Part Of It, Thomas Riddell Sankey

Bachelors’ Theses

Wholesome tradition is an asset to an institution, a. nation or a business. Edmund Burke's famous epitome of the journalistic world and the oft used and much abused quotation, "The pen is mightier than the sword," in addition to -all the Col. Henry Wattereone, Daniel DeFoes and other purse-poor but quixotic knights of the copy pencil have cast over the newspaper calling a glamour of romance and wonder. To the layman the newspaper reporter is either a courageous knight-errant protected by a shining buckler of righteous courage, or a devil-may-care picaro with a taste for bright lights and late hours.

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History And Development Of The Platoon School, Marquerite G. Lentzner Jun 1927

History And Development Of The Platoon School, Marquerite G. Lentzner

Bachelors’ Theses

At every change in its evolution, education has been made to fit the needs of society. The oldest organized system of education is found in China. From earliest times education in some form has existed there, and for 3,000 years it has been a matter of national importance. It is now maintained on legitimate grounds that schools and colleges existed in China 4,000 years ago. These were not state institutions, for China never had a system of national schools, or more strictly speaking, schools supported by the state. For seven years in the schools of the old regime in China, …

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A Comparison Of Cicero’S And St. Thomas’S Treatises On The Immortality Of The Human Soul, Clare Carmelita Quirk Jun 1927

A Comparison Of Cicero’S And St. Thomas’S Treatises On The Immortality Of The Human Soul, Clare Carmelita Quirk

Bachelors’ Theses

Among the countless lessons which man perforce must learn in life's school, none is more impressive, none in a sense, more easily learned than the lesson of death. For look where he may, turn where he will, the fact of death confronts him everywhere. Death, too, speaks in the language of pain, in the keen anguish of partings, in the tongueless sorrow of bruised and lonely hearts. And the language of pain man cannot but hear, for it sears its message on his. soul, and though he should close his ears, he cannot shut his heart. Death, man cannot disregard.

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How A Course Of Study In Spelling Should Be Made, Carrie E. Schwartz Jun 1927

How A Course Of Study In Spelling Should Be Made, Carrie E. Schwartz

Bachelors’ Theses

The primary object of the teaching of spelling is to supply the present and adult needs of the child. The present needs are the words most frequently used in the writing done in school, either in the children's themes or in their examinations. Their adult needs are the words most frequently written in life outside the school; in writing personal or business letters.

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The Morality Of Nationalism, John Ambrose Walsh Jun 1927

The Morality Of Nationalism, John Ambrose Walsh

Bachelors’ Theses

A few short years ago the world was suffering from the most brutal and destructive war it had ever known. We had boasted of our civilization; we had attempted to establish a tribunal for world peace; we had talked of settling differences by means of arbitration. Meanwhile every European nation (and some non-European nations) were girding themselves for war and increasing their armament. School books were lauding national heroes to the skies and painting patriots of other nations in blackest hue. Germans were singing "Deutschland Uber Alles", and English were singing "Rule Brittania". Germany, Austria, and Italy had one secret …

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Mysticism In The Metaphysical School Of Poets, Jessie Donaldson Corrigan Jun 1927

Mysticism In The Metaphysical School Of Poets, Jessie Donaldson Corrigan

Bachelors’ Theses

In the desire to transcend the physical world, men of every age have set foot upon the "Mystic Way". This desire, which is a thing internal and intuitive, has been called the "instinct for transcendence." Once upon the mystic way, "the wistful eyes of Life are set towards a vision that is also a Home - a Home from which news can reach us now and again."

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Shakespeare And The Aristotelian Katharsis Specifically Studied In The Plays Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, And Macbeth, Meta Charlotte Kortebein Jun 1927

Shakespeare And The Aristotelian Katharsis Specifically Studied In The Plays Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, And Macbeth, Meta Charlotte Kortebein

Bachelors’ Theses

In studying Shakespeare with a view to his complying with Aristotle’s idea of the Tragic Katharsis it is primarily necessary to have a clear conception of the meaning of Katharsis and Aristotle's valuation of its function in the tragedy. After such knowledge has been firmly acquired it will facilitate a reading of Shakespeare from the standpoint of Katharsis.

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Influences That Went To The Making Of Edmund Burke In His Career As An Orator, James Crowley Jun 1927

Influences That Went To The Making Of Edmund Burke In His Career As An Orator, James Crowley

Bachelors’ Theses

Edmund Burke looms before us through the mist of years as a prodigy of eloquence and knowledge; devoted to the good or his country; an unselfish and disinterested patriot; a sage whose moral wisdom shines far beyond his own generation and century. He was the most remarkable man who has taken part in public affairs, from the thrilling days of our Revolution down to the present time. The life and principles of so great, a man are a fascinating study to all admirers of the work he accomplished. If history has any interest or value, it is to show the …

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The Beautiful, Richard Frederick Kegel May 1927

The Beautiful, Richard Frederick Kegel

Bachelors’ Theses

"I don't know much about Art,but I know what I like'! is the hedonistic philosophy,the cause of the degradation of the fine arts whose end is the creation of beauty. The logical conclusions of this view are astonishing; Beauty is made a servile thing to be used for our pleasure;its value is made purely utilitarian. Beauty suffers the same fate dealt to truth and goodness. To say "I know, what I like", implies, I see a thing not because it is beautiful but because I love it,which is the next step to not seeing a thing that is beautiful because …

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Some Philosophical Implications Of Behaviorism., Harold Wayland Tribble Jan 1927

Some Philosophical Implications Of Behaviorism., Harold Wayland Tribble

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Psychology is the middle ground between philosophy and science. Philosophy deals with the interpretation of facts, with, a view to determining their ultimate cause. It is the search for knowledge of general principles--elements, powers, causes and laws--as explaining facts and existences. Science is systematized knowledge of facts, laws and proximate causes, gained and verified by exact observation. Science is the effort to show how laws operate, and how certain facts affect other facts. Philosophy seeks to show why laws operate as they do, and to discern what is the first fact. Science deals with the sequence of events and effects …

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Religious Experience In The Light Of Current Psychology., Elwyn Judson Trueblood 1896-1963 Jan 1927

Religious Experience In The Light Of Current Psychology., Elwyn Judson Trueblood 1896-1963

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Psychology is receiving a new emphasis in the modern age. The subject of human consciousness, always fascinating, is now claiming our attention as never before. When we endeavor to link psychology with religion, the charm is greatly increased; for then we are dealing with two themes, rather than one, in which mankind has an abiding interest -- the human consciousness and the human soul. Thus, the psychology of religion has grown to be one of the most popular studies of our generation. Indeed, an eminent authority in this field ventures the opinion that the theoretical as well as the practical …

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The Technique Of Cervants’S “Novelas Ejemplares”, Charles Henry Siegmund Jun 1926

The Technique Of Cervants’S “Novelas Ejemplares”, Charles Henry Siegmund

Bachelors’ Theses

This story starts out in the first paragraph with a striking description of what constitutes a gypsy. According to Cervantes’s conception, a member of this tribe is simply surrounded by all the possible circumstances, from birth to death, that will directly contribute to his thievish make-up for which he is universally known. No better definition of a gypsy could be given by any lexicographer. Putting such a descriptive definition into the mind of the reader at once, before going into the real story, is a clever literary procedure, or technique; for, in this manner, the mind is thoroughly impressed with …

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Philosophical Aspects Of Divorce, Irvin L. Kahellek Jun 1926

Philosophical Aspects Of Divorce, Irvin L. Kahellek

Bachelors’ Theses

The question of divorce is one that is becoming more and more weighty each day. A great number of sound thinking people have realized an evil therein, but have based their conclusions on religious belief, accepting theology as a reason for its illiceity without further question. If they fall from their religion they can see no reason why divorce is not licit, and because of a great modern exodus from the guiding principle of religious code, one is met on all sides by the cry that divorce is licit. It is our purpose to show from a purely reasoned standpoint …

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There Exists A Natural Law, Cornelius Merten Jun 1926

There Exists A Natural Law, Cornelius Merten

Bachelors’ Theses

A 1 aw la primarily a rule of action, according to which a being acts; it is a summation of observed uniform phenomena; a record of uniform unvarying occurrences; sort of habits in nature. Thus, investigators of the natural sciences, hold it to be an established truth, that all nature is ruled by universal and constant laws, and that the object of natural sciences is to search out these laws, and to make plain, their reciprocal relations in all directions. Newton, the greatest natural philosopher, discovered the law of gravitation, by which, all bodies attract in direct proportion to their …

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Evolution And Philosophy, Arlo A. Mckinnon Jun 1926

Evolution And Philosophy, Arlo A. Mckinnon

Bachelors’ Theses

In the discussion of any major topic, much feeling and little logic make for inevitable confusion. And so it was that when in 1925 John T. Scopes, an obscure teacher of secondary school natural sciences in Tennessee, took it upon himself to instruct his pupils in certain theories of so-called Evolution, he precipitated an argument of national scope. For on March 23d of that same year Governor Austin Peay of Tennessee had signed an Anti-Evolution bill which forbade any public school of the state ”to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine creation of man as taught …

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The Ethical Principles Underlying Abortion, Lewis Dominic Thill Jun 1926

The Ethical Principles Underlying Abortion, Lewis Dominic Thill

Bachelors’ Theses

At the present day one quite often hears a discussion of birth-control. And it is interesting to note how varied and shallow are the ethical opinions put forth by those in favor of it. The advocates of abortion seem to have but the vaguest notion of the Natural Law, forgetting that morality is not made in its fundamental principles by personal whim or religious creed, but by the requirements of Divine Order, which must forever prevail. Abortion is practiced in some degree by the laity without the intervention of a physician. Very often, however, it is prescribed by medical men …

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Attacks On The Idea Of Substance, Alex Wilmer Jun 1926

Attacks On The Idea Of Substance, Alex Wilmer

Bachelors’ Theses

The attacks on the validity of the Scholastic idea of substance have their origin in the false theory of knowledge of Descartes and its step-child the Idealism of Locke, Berkeley and Hume. The attack on the validity is to some extent due to a failure to understand the idea of substance, but to a greater extent to the false theory of knowledge that logically developed from Descartes philosophy.

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The Tendencies Of American Philosophy During The Nineteenth Century., Lawrence Anthony Sadlek Jun 1926

The Tendencies Of American Philosophy During The Nineteenth Century., Lawrence Anthony Sadlek

Bachelors’ Theses

Before giving a detailed description of the tendencies of American thought during the nineteenth century, I shall give a brief outline of the philosophic tendencies before this time. Puritanism was the dominant school of thought in America during the first century of our existence, and did not die out till the time of the American Revolution. It's chief principles were the passivity of man, determinism and pessimism. They considered man a dull--instrument in the hands of God and his acts predestined; his life was a vain show and this world a vale of tears. They_ believed in a deity separate …

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The Will Of Man, Harris George Aschenbrener Jun 1926

The Will Of Man, Harris George Aschenbrener

Bachelors’ Theses

In the popular philosophy of today, namely Mat­eralistic Evolution, attempts have been made to explain everything as the result of the forces of "matter and motion". In rejecting all that the sages of old have offered towards the explanation of phenomena, there are certain problems which are stumbling blocks to this form of philosophy. Many and various theories have been offered but none has been found that will satisfy. Re­alizing their inability to explain these problems, one of their number has summed them up and termed them seven riddles for which science has no answer, and which will always remain …

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A Comparative Study Of The Stoicism Of Seneca And Marcus Aurelius, Helen Caroline Boemer Jun 1926

A Comparative Study Of The Stoicism Of Seneca And Marcus Aurelius, Helen Caroline Boemer

Bachelors’ Theses

Socrates it was who taught men to think aright, to love knowledge and goodness, to realize the worth of friendship, courage and wisdom. To him as a consequence many subsequent philosophers went for their ideas. Hence after his death we find that many schools of philosophy came into existence. Besides the schools of Plato, Aristotle and Epicurus, there arose also the Cynic School of Antisthenes and the Megaric School of Euclid, all of which incorporated some of the fundamental doctrines of Socrates or contained elements of pre-Socratic systems, modified by the influence of their common master.

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Criteria Of Morality, Thomas Francis Flynn Jun 1926

Criteria Of Morality, Thomas Francis Flynn

Bachelors’ Theses

Here is a paradox. The child is father to the man, and philosophically considered, this is doubly true. During that short journey between the advent of that immacu­late 'tabula rasa' and the age of reason, the 'homo sapiens' accepts great truths and rests satisfied, seeming to grasp intuitively the profound logic and recondite study behind them. For example, the child of four or five years is app­rehended in the replete pantry busily consuming a jar of jam; mother reprimands it severely,saying that it should not do such a thing. "Why?", is the spontaneous and wholly innocent question. "Because jam is …

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