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The Kentucky-Tennessee Boundary Line., Charles Hugh Hardesty 1894-1955

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation is arranged in three parts. First is a bibliography of the material used in the study with a roster of the officials of each state that may have jurisdiction over any thing pertaining to the boundary line. Second is an account of the various efforts made by each of the states concerned to establish and confirm the line. Chapter one relates the efforts of the English Government to establish the line between Virginia and North Carolina. Chapter two is an account of the two states to establish the line, from the time they declared themselves free of English …

A Thirty Year Educational History Of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Elizabeth Strong Shamberger

History ETDs

It has seemed to me that an educational history of the city in which I was born and reared would be an interesting and worth-while subject for a Master's Thesis: interesting to me because the names of men and women I have always known are written indelibly into its pages; worth-while to others because the account is as authentic and unbiased as a faithful study of the documents obtainable could make it.

History Of The University Of New Mexico, Frank Reeve

History ETDs

Section 1. There is hereby created and established within and for the Territory of New Mexico, an institution of learning to be known as the "University of New Mexico". Said institution is hereby located at or near the town of Albuquerque, in the county of Bernalillo, within two miles north of Railroad Avenue in said town, upon a tract of good high and dry land, of not less than twenty acres, suitable for the purpose of such institution, which said land shall within six months from the passage of this act be donated and conveyed, free of any cost and …

Modern Youth And Literature (With Emphasis Upon Creative Education), Ralph Westerman

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In writing a thesis dealing with such an amazingly wide subject as modern youth one is staggered by the quantities of material that one must read. It is true that most of the research work concerning the young American is propaganda of one kind of another: someone must prove that youth is degenerate; or someone must prove that youth is god-like. Between these two extremes much has been written in an attempt to prove that youth is simply youth--little or no different from the youth of any other age. It is all very illuminating and it is all a bit …

The Tacna-Arica Dispute, Edith Eileen Knoles

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The history of the Tacna-Arica Dispute presents varied problems to the student of international relations. From the period of Spanish American independence to the present there have developed new aspects of international law and practice according to the light brought upon it by several generations of experience, The circumstances of Per’s throwing her influence with Bolivia in the War of the Pacific in order to preserve the “balance of power” illustrate the traditional type of alliance entered into by nations fearing the growing strength of neighboring countries; the appeal to patriotic impulse and sentiment in carrying on a war whose …

A History Of Education In Porto Rico, Elna Mae Miller

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to give an outline of education and its progress on the island of Porto Rico, from the coming of the Spaniards through the years of American control. It is not written for experts on Porto Rican education, although it is the data of such experts, that has made this work possible. It is rather for those American students, who know little or not.hing of this possession, its early history, or its educational problems past or present; and yet who, like myself hear more and more of this island each year, so fast is it …

Hellenism And Christianity, Philip Albrecht

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

The purpose of this thesis is to show the relation of Hellenism to Christianity. It will deal especially with the action and influence of the one upon the other in the Apostolic Age. It would he hardly possible that two such great movements as Hellenism and Christianity could exist at the same time without affecting one another.

Origin Of The German Novel, Dulcissima Bette

Master's Theses

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Historical Aspect Of The Relations Between Church And State, James P. Montague

Master's Theses

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English Scholars Of The Renaissance, Laura Backes

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Educational Values Of The Liturgy, Mabel Dorsey

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Comparison Of Dante's Inferno With Virgil's Aeneid, Book Vi, Mary Ludwigis Brinkmann

Bachelors’ Theses

In the realms of literature no work of man has ever answered the question of St. Augustine, "Am I immortal or not?" with greater vividness of imagery, based in a large measure on the teaching of Christianity, than Dante has in his Divine Comedy. Not only the condition of the soul after death does he visualize, but as a philosopher he proposes for our instruction in the course of his journey many questions of dogmatic thought, affecting the Hereafter.

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 …

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 …

Imperialism, Margaret Mary Horn

Bachelors’ Theses

The Imperialistic idea may be said to have been at all times a dominating factor in the building of a nation or an empire.

Imperialism may be defined as "that policy be which a people as an autocrat acquires and maintains an empire. An empire is a state formed by the rule of one state over other states."

The Song In Elizabethan Drama With Particular Reference To Its Function In Shakespeare, John Joseph Plamondon

Master's Essays (1922 - )

We have approached our study of the song in Elizabethan Drama with the intention of accounting for the abundance of vocal music in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and of explaining the use of song as a dramatic device. It has been considered necessary to a proper understanding of the place of song in the Romantic Drama to give a rather broad treatment of the subject, including a brief history of the song in the English theatre, the psychology of its origin, and the cause of its decline. Methods of presenting songs have been discussed to strengthen our …

The Origin And Development Of Pre-Shakespearean Comedy, Fannye Charlotte Forman

Bachelors’ Theses

The early history of English Comedy is a record of successive effort and experiments apparently leading to no result. In the early moralities as in the Miracle plays, there are flashes of humour; in the later moralities there are scenes in which "the effort to paint the riotous course of Youth, though not very amusing to modern readers, is sufficiently faithful to bring us within sight of a possible comedy of manners. But the morality-writer was far from entertaining any conception of comedy as an end in itself. His aim remained to the last purely didactic. It did not, indeed, …

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.

America And Monroe's Doctrine, Herman Rauch

Bachelors’ Theses

The greatest documents of American history form a triumvirate. Incidentally they all had their inception in the United States portion of this Western Hemisphere.

The Conception Of History In Tacitus And Livy, Marguerite Teresa Puerner

Bachelors’ Theses

Few writers among the ancients have received more condemnation, more criticism, less whole-heart d praise than Tacitus and Livy, the two most eminent historians of antiquity. By far the greater part of modern criticism is unfavorable to them. Even those who profess to admire them apologize for their faults, excuse them, seek to explain them away, and then very generously admit that, when all has been taken into consideration, their histories are really very fine. But all critics, adverse and favorable alike, are forced to grant that these historians have succeeded in giving us the true picture of Rome, and …

The Characteristics Of The Elizabethan Drama With Particular References To Marlowe, Lyly, Greene, And Kyd, Mary Rose Schwigel

Bachelors’ Theses

Aristotle's simple definition of drama as "imitated human action" has not been bettered. Man cannot escape man even in the drama, and it is the ways of our kind that constitute the essentials of dramatic subject matter. From another well known definition we may gain another point of view. "A drama is an epic told in lyric parts." An epic, in lars, is a narrative poem, a story of deeds told outwardly and objectively by some one who has heard them. A lyrical poem is thew expression of an inner or subjective emotion by one who has felt what he …

The Symbolism And The Morality Of The Modern Drama, Florence Marie Schopps

Bachelors’ Theses

The drama has always been the mirror of the age. It is in contemporary drama more than in any other form of art that one finds the mouthpiece and the embodiments of the tur spirit of modernism. The drama of today is the drama of revolt. It opposes the tradition of the past. It is an open attack against the subject-matter, technique, and stagecraft of the drama of past centuries. It proposes changing standards of morality and uses symbolism as one of its chief modes of expression.

The Development Of The Drama From The Church, Karl V. Schoenecker

Bachelors’ Theses

In the study of the drama and especially the stage, we find that it had its death and inception in the Church. In the early stages of Christianity we find the Church condemning with great vigor all forms of stage presentations not for any destruction of art but because the stage was the visible representative of the old pagan life. Pagan ideas and culture were fostered and in the plays themselves lurked the thoughts of the old mythology.

The Bonds Of Steel That Strengthen The Union, Harris Henry Schowalter

Bachelors’ Theses

There is no industry that has influenced American development and progress as its transportation systems. So long as we remained in the economic position of colonies, depending chiefly upon foreign commerce for our prosperity, it was marine transportation with which we were chiefly concerned. Shipping and the carrying trade were our greatest economic interests. After 1815 this interest did not decline absolutely, but it became less important. It was still the source of many private fortunes and of much accumulation of capital, and ranked in importance with the growing manufactures of the country. With the growth of a great internal …

Open Door Policy In China, Laurene M. Mistele

Bachelors’ Theses

The declaration of the Open Door Policy came after the period when Russia, France, Great Britain, Japan and Germany all vied with one another for concessions. It was a policy to open the so-called ’’spheres of interest” which till this time the Powers had held in China and to put all nations on an equal "basis. In reality it did not mark the opening of China’s door, for while China was content and at peace with the world, the "beauty and richness of her silks and chinaware were causing envy in the West and the Chines had come to realize …

The Historical Novel, Emmett J. Sweeney

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis undertakes to give the reader an outline of the historical background of the English Historical novel, from its inception to the time of Walter Scott.

The Victorian Compromise As Embodied In Tennyson's "In Memoriam", Eula G. Stark

Bachelors’ Theses

A representative bock cannot be considered apart from the age it reflects.

"All great writers, are in a very real sense, the products cf the age of which they are the children; their work is modified and their range is limited by the sentiments and opinions prevalent in their time." Especially is this true of Tennyson, for most all writers who treat of him intelligently express in some form or another the opinion that Tennyson is representative of his age. But we wish to call that especial period he so peculiarly embodies in "In Memoriam" as the era of the …

The Development Of The Roman Theatre And Drama, And Its Relation To The Greek Drama And Culture, John F. Gminski

Bachelors’ Theses

Entering upon this treatise on the ancient theatre and drama, I will say that I had first intended to treat only of the Roman drama, and so had planned to make a critical survey of its production and development. But this I soon found to be quite ineffective as to the result for a study of ancient dramaturgy with an object of absorbing its soul. For there we first find, the theatre, the stage, which is as the art gallery of drama, to be intimately related to the drama; for drama and the theatre throughout their existence and period of …

The Poetry Of William Butler Yeats And The Celtic Spirit, Francis Joseph Mccarthy

Bachelors’ Theses

The Irish Literary movement of our time is the most interesting artistic event since the formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. It exhibits the same combination of diverse personalities and gifts dominated by one common aim and directed toward one single end.

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, …