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Emperor Worship Among The Romans, John Orth Riedl

Bachelors’ Theses

Rome was always a cosmopolitan city. She as conceived through a mingling of peoples and was nurtured in her cradle of seven hills on the cream of the surrounding tribes. She speedily outgrew her infant world, and thriving on the food of other races, soon stretched her aged length across the Tiber Riverbed with arms extending east far inland and west for miles along the road to Ostia.

The Immortality Of The Soul, Francis George Ramsden

Bachelors’ Theses

Throughout these changing centuries since the beginning of the world, and among the ever varying elements of life, there has been one being who has remained essentially the same. Man was created by God and endowed with a body and a soul. Though times and customs have changed and man lives differently now than did those who preceded him, he still possesses these same physical parts, a body and a soul.

Alsace-Lorraine Controversy, Edward S. Mcgarty

Bachelors’ Theses

Alsace-Lorraine has long been a bone of contention. In the numerous conflicts of the contending parties, the lands and possessions of these unhappy provinces were repeatedly subjected to destruction or pillage, and the pop-to all the violence of warfare, with the inevitable result that the social intellectual, and the industrial development of the country, rich as it is in natural resources and favored in its geographical position and configuration has been seriously hampered. With such salient features and barriers as the Rhine on the one hand and the Vosges Mountains on the other, the Alsace-Lorraine territory has constituted a border …

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.

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.

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 …

Fantasy In Shakespeare, Barrie And Yeats, Dorothy Anne Dawe

Bachelors’ Theses

Shakespeare, Barrie and Yeats. What a diversity of thoughts and ideas their manes present. Each ts a genius, and each is different from the other, for geniuses are never like any other people. Each has become a literary success through a different media. And yet they are alike in one respect. They all possess that quality of "Fantasy". They have each inculcated that spirit into their works, and hence are kindred in one respect at least.

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."

A History And Study Of The Critical Essay, Matthew Coogan

Bachelors’ Theses

The Essay as a form in literary practice found its origin in the sixteenth century in the writings of Michel Montaigne. As Montaigne used it, the essay was a personal, chatty, intimate discourse between the author and the reader. John Richard Green described it very nicely when he wrote that "the essayist (Montaigne) is a gentleman who chats to a world of gentle men and whose chat is shaped and coloured by a sense of what he owes to his company and what he owes to his subject." This while it characterizes the essay of Montaigne, hardly covers the scope …

The Classicism Of John Milton, Louise Catherine Dederich

Bachelors’ Theses

Every writer, whether immortal or unknown, whether philosopher or humorist, ones his style or at least its foundation to some earlier writer. Though conscious or unconscious, there is always a trace of another's influence. In the works of some writers we behold a conscious modeling. They have studied sane chosen paragon- analyzed him and made him a part of themselves. They imitate and try to perfect him. They copy and improve upon his genius. In others we find an influence which may have been wholly indeliberate. Satis­faction and keen appreciation have led the author to bestow his attention upon some …

Literary Origins Of John Henry Cardinal Newman, Anne M. De Laney

Bachelors’ Theses

A man's name is inscribed in a Biographical Dictionary by the date of his birth; but in reality it is his death that ranges him in the heart and mind of humanity.

Contributary factors to his imminent greatness are often minimized in importance; and yet those factors are essentially so many milestones in the way of his achievements.

Even so it is with Newman. Biographers have given us certain facts concerning his life; critics have told us the relative value of his. writings; while time has told us of his unique greatness. It is admittedly difficult in a biographical sketch. …

Investigations Of English Euphuism, James Richard Barnett

Bachelors’ Theses

The Revival of Learning during the century between 1450 and 1550 as a reopening of the ancient masterpieces of poetical, dramatic and philosophical literature. Men suddenly came into a vast, unprecedented fortune, and for a long while did not know how to use it. Realization of the pricelessness of their new possession seemed to demand that their very lan­guage should be in a concatenation accordingly. As a result of this ambition, certain affectations of style in both writing and speech sprang up in cultured circles throuhout the whole of Europe. These affectations spread like an epidemic. One form arose in …

The Novels Of Thomas Hardy: A Study Of Radical Pessimism, Marie J. Bub

Bachelors’ Theses

Although Thomas Hardy is still alive hundreds of criticisms and estimations of his works have been written. In past ages man believed in a certain commandment which read: "Thou shalt not judge thy contemporaries." But this was later questioned and repudiated by men with some degree of enthusiasm for truth of a kind. For, said they, if a man's contemporaries understand him not, who shall? At least there are truths and views of him that must be caught alive or, like the flower once blown, forever die. "And just as a man's biography, if it be worth writing at all, …

Social Satire In The Augustan Age, Franklyn P. Biever

Bachelors’ Theses

Satire and the satirist have been in evidence in well-nigh all the ages of the world's history. It is part of man's nature to seek entertainment, but often the object of his pleasure is the ridicule of an individual, the community at large, or some cause. When the human comedy of men and manners is out of gear through the tyranny of either over the other, and existence is become a travesty and a caricature of life, heavy and lumbering, then, when men can neither laugh or weep, comes satire and the satirist to break the congestion in them and …

The Technique Of The Drama Of John Galsworthy, Irene Louise Edwards

Bachelors’ Theses

Since 1906 when John Galsworthy published "The Silver Box", he has produced nineteen dramas and a number of one act plays; and Phelps says "he has produced nothing negligible". (Phelps: "Essays on Modern Dramatists" p. 100 ). In his very first play, he used a technique which he has continued to follow with more or less precision and perfection in the later dramas ( except "The Little Dream"). He did not flounder about as did the pacemakers of modern drams. He found his medium ready-made for him in naturalism, and he adopted it. It was the most suitable for the …

Woman In Roman Society, Hugh A. Flatley

Bachelors’ Theses

In Roman times as in our own there were constant changes and developments in the customs the rights and the obligations of woman. Their education, their attitude toward marriage and its various forms, their duties to­ ward husband and household, their regard for law and morality,--all varied and changed; some, even, were for­ gotten. As century after century in our own late history alters and abolishes habits and practices of our ancestors, so succeeding centuries then, revolutionized old practices and made new and different ones. Instances of this are found especially in regard to marriage. Four and five cen­turies before …

The History Of The Deductive Detective Story From Poe To Freeman And Bailey With A Critical Comparison, Raymond F. Erz

Bachelors’ Theses

Ever since the beginning of man universal interest has been centered about these three magnetic words: MYSTERY, INTRIGUE, ADVENTURE. A famous author once said, "All the world's a stage and we are the actors in it. This in every respect is true for ourselves as well as for every­ body else. Plots are being formulated to shorten the ex­istence of one character for the other, the act is done, the stage is minus a personage, the actors hesitate, and the show goes on.

On Finding God, Joseph Heinzkill

Bachelors’ Theses

A being who is God is absolute in love and beauty and truth, and in the being all faith and hope and love and all beauty and thought begin. Some of the harmony in the being is given to all the universe and is in dawn and in evening, in the winds and rain, in the seasons, in the earth and oceans, in the mines within the earth, in the fields, in woods, in every plant and being that lives, and in beings endowed with mind and will. In this harmony of the universe the soul rises to the being …

The Ethical Aspects Of The Shavian Theatre, Bertha R. Ott

Bachelors’ Theses

Few dramatists are so widely discussed, so excessively journalized as is George Bernard Shaw, and, as a result, few are more misunderstood. Many consider him a hero, accepting all his dictums with no critical observations on their own part, and, on the other hand, many denounce him whole-heartedly as an insincere iconoclast who is entirely negative and destructive. It is my purpose to show that Shaw is neither of these, -- that his philosophy of life as set forth in the plays is either constructive in a certain sense, or, if destructive, destructive only so far as it is necessary …

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.

John Millington Synge And The Irish Dramatic Revival, Ethel L. Kuehn

Bachelors’ Theses

If poetry be “emotion remembered in tranquillity," as Wordsworth said, then drama is, or must seem to be, emotion visualized in action. Drama, by its nature,- can come into being only when men are moved powerfully and suddenly to record the circumstances of life; for the dramatic form is the most exacting of literary forms, demanding a high and sustained emotion in the author. The great ages of drama have thus been those when life has been raised to an unusual intensity, or viewed with an excited surprise. The artist may take what he desires from life, and, letting all …

Contemporary American Drama: William Vaughn Moody And Eugene O'Neil, Helen F. Corrigan

Bachelors’ Theses

In any study of contemporary American drama, two names inevitably stand out from among the myriads of native playwrights - those names - William Vaughn Moody and Eugene O'Neil. Yet neither of these can be literary pigeon-holed. Moody's death prevented him reaching his full development. Consequently his work is mostly indicative - indicative of what it might have been had he lived.

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".

The Picaresque Novel Of Spain, Marjorie T. Dorn

Bachelors’ Theses

Review of books on the picaresque novel, and their treatment of the subject. The importance of this field of literature. The picaresque type as mainly and typically Spanish.

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 …

Evolution Of Japanese Religious Ideas, Yo Kawamura

Graduate Thesis Collection

My purpose in this thesis is to show the development of religious ideas in connection with the social and cultural evolution of the Japanese people and to indicate the place of Christianity in the modern period of Japan's religous history.

The Bearing Of Nationalism Upon The Indian Church, Helen M. Nicholson

Graduate Thesis Collection

There are various conceptions of nationalism, but the one which is incorporated here is that which has to do with a national consciousness, a feeling of unity among those inhabiting the same country. For the most part it is political unity which is meant, though this has been attended by an increasing emphasis upon unity of Indian language, customs, and manners. It must be acknowledged that there is a bond of unity in the historic traditions of the centuries of culture and in the religious myths which are immortalized in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, but this is hardly sufficient.

The Prophetic Office In Israel, Alfred Ottomar Fuerbringer

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

My purpose is altogether different, namely, to go through the entire history of God’s chosen people of the Old Covenant as far as it is recorded in the Biblical books, to find out what is told us about the office of a prophet in Israel, and to describe the essence of the office, the man who filled it, and the manner in which he carried out the duties imposed upon him.

The Postexilic History Of The Jews From 538-432 B.C., Herman Julius Meyer

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

The purpose of this thesis is thus to give a short, chronological account of' the history of' the Jews from 538 B.C. to 432 B.C., based not upon any of the preconceived notions of the "Higher Critics" but upon the Bible, the only infallible account that can give us a true picture of events of this period of the Jews.

Michalangelo And Luther - A Parallel, Oliver Rupprecht

Bachelor of Divinity

In the case of Michelangelo and Luther, whose labors extend largely into the same period of time, the parallel becomes doubly attractive. For a comparison of this nature is not dependent on a similarity or an identity of occupation of the persons concerned, unless, of course, the purpose be that of setting forth the success in a single field of human activity and learning. It may aim solely at a delineation of personal characteristics and an evaluation of historical importance, together with a summary description of the man's chief works, without resorting to a detailed presentation of his achievements which, …