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A Sociological Study Of The Indian Caste System, George H. Singh

Graduate Thesis Collection

Whenever people in America and elsewhere outside of India hear anything about the Indian caste system, they show a great contempt, even to disgust, in their attitude towards this ancient institution which has been instrumental, to a very large degree in moulding the destinies of India up to this day. To a casual observer this institution is but "a monster custom" (Low, S., Vision of India, p. 260) which saps the character of people leaving them degenerate in their own group and degraded in the modern world. He condemns it from every angle, scorns and abhors those who follow it, …

Adolescence In Recent Fiction, Sarah T. Sisson

Graduate Thesis Collection

No teacher or parent, who comes in contact with the period of life extending from the advent of puberty to the attainment of maturity and known technically as Adolescence, can fail to appreciate, aside from any biological or psychological training which he may have had, that these years are full of storm and uncertainty in an attempt to gain control through harmonious functioning of body, mind, and soul.

The Function Of The Priest And Of The Prophet In The Propatation Of Religion, Charles Ernest Davis

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

As one peers across the vistas of the past two types of holy men stand out with striking prominence and significance. The advance of religious thought and life has largely been due to the activities and contributions of these two, the priest and the prophet.

It has been the purpose of this research to seek to discover the particular functions of each of these, to show their correlation in producing religious advance, and to make certain suggestions as to how the values each has to contribute to the program of the modern Christian church may be more adequately realized.

The Drama As A Factor In Americanization, Florence Scott Van Gilder

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The main objective before us is to determine how the drama, in its several forms, may be so utilized as to bring about and further Americanization. In attempting to make this theory clear to those who may be more or less unfamiliar with the idea, it will be necessary to consider the definition of Americanization, and to make some decision as to who may be Americanized. It will also be necessary to review, rather briefly, the origin and development of the drama, that it may be seen why drama has been elected as our medium.

There have been several difficulties …

American Oil Interests In Mosul, John S. Landrum

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

During the nineteenth century the industry and capi- txl of the United States was entirely absorbed in the develop- ment of our home industries and resources. In fact, as may have been expected, we did not have nearly enough capital for this work and had to borrow from Europe.

But toward the end of the century it became apparent to thinking men that the time was not far distant when we should have a surplus of capital here, and that to employ it we would have to seek foreign fields for investment. The Spanish American War led us into the …

Intervention Of The United States In Nicaragua Since 1909, Louise Floyd

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The twentieth century is revealing a steady increase in the influence of the United States in the Caribbean region, both in politics and economic development. The arm of America has been gradually forcing out the European nations. Counting colonies and protectorates, the United States has under its supervision a greater Caribbean population than the population of the thirteen colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence. In trade the United States is the best customer of Central America and the West Indies. The region is one of the chief sources of our raw-materials imports.

The majority of the citizens …

Development Of Selected Mathematical Instruments Representing Angular, Logarithmic And Arithmetic Computation, Lillian L. Troxell

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The Sextant in its earliest known form consisted of divided circles and compasses with simply sights. An early Creek astronomer of the second century after Christ, Claudius Ptolemaeus, or more commonly called Ptolemy, wrote a book entitled Megale Syntaxis tes Astron- omias, also known by the Arabic title Almagest. The instrument described in this book was called the Astrolable and was used to measure the angular distance between stars. It was made of two concentric vertical circles, the largest and outer circle was about sixteen inches in diameter with graduated arc; the central ring was movable and carried the two …

Reason And Christian Faith, Daniel Coyner

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

The attempt to present a somewhat different point of new is the only excuse that may be offered for another treatment of the relation of reason to Christian faith. The peculiarity of the following discussion will be its assumption that Christianity is the true religion. It is in no sense a study of the philosophy of religion, which begins, for purposes of argument, with the notion that all religions are of equal merit. Nor is it similar to the prefatory remarks on the relation of reason to religious truth which are commonly found in the books on the philosophy of …

Skill And Accuracy Test In The Use Of Hand Woodworking Tools, Warren Prescott Dayton

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In view of the fact that the greatest argument in favor of any educational test is its need, one is compelled to keep this in mind while introducing a new test and give this factor first consideration. It is safe to say that any instrumental- ity that will aid the teacher in the understanding of his pupil and his present and potential ability is needed. Truly the various intelligence, aptitude and content tests, now in ever increasing use, have justified their existence upon this foundation of pedigogical need.

Francis Thompson And His Affinities With The Metaphysical Poets., Catherine Lucile Sanford

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to show that Francis Thompson, the nineteenth century poet, has marked affinities with the Metaphysical poets, of the seventeenth century. The term Metaphysical has been applied by Dr. Samuel Johnson to the poetry of writers such as Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan and Cowley. Possibly, the reason for the name may be attributed to the fact that they were thought to have been so much above the earth, for indeed they searched heaven and earth for their analogies and imagery.

The Possibility Of Miracles, Sophia Zimmerman

Bachelors’ Theses

In contrasting ancient and modern times, there is, perhaps, no point of difference so outstanding as the general attitude of each age toward the miraculous. Throughout the early ages pagans, Jews and Christians were ever ready to recognize the interference of unseen powers in the course of nature. The idea of the miraculous awoke no aversion in them. Not even the most bitter and most clever enemies of Christianity, such as Celsus and Julian the Apostate, in their efforts to combat Christianity ever attempted the argument that the miracles upon which it rests are impossible, although this would have been …

Conflict The Universal Law Of The Drama- Its Variations Circumstantial, Leona Peters Furrer

Bachelors’ Theses

"Nothing substantial can be made out of hand and. nothing survives which is not a development of institutions already existing." Thus the drama in its complete ex¬ pression to-day survives and is a development thru many cycles of that which was instinctive in the most primitive races. Thru all the ages man has desired to portray his experiences. Before the written word this desire was expressed thru pantomime aided by song and dance. Later two singers related their adventures conveying their ideas by gestures. This is typically true of the Eskimo. The Aleutian Islanders progressed by employing many personages to …

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 …

Alsace-Lorraine: "La Marseille" Or "Die Wacht Am Rhein", John Joseph Sullivan

Bachelors’ Theses

Alsace-Lorraine has been a disputed, territory since the dawn of history,—fought over by Gaul and Teuton, incorporated in the Roman Empire, conquered by the Francs, lost to the Germans, retaken by France in 1648, torn from her by Prussia in 1871, and finally, in 1918 restored to France as a result of the allied victory in the World War. Such in brief is the history of a people victimized by rivalry between races and sovereigns. It is our purpose here to follow out the above outline a little more in detail, to show how the disputed territory was a major …

Personality And God, James B. Gilroy

Bachelors’ Theses

Science, in its rapid strides forward, has been disproving old theories, challenging old ideas and branding anyone who clings to dualism and God as a 'back number'. The scientist, working with materials that fall under the perception of the senses and puzzling with problems that may be stated in mathematical equations, has tried to deal with all things under the microscope and with equations. Anything that he found himself unable to perceive and deal with through his powers of sensation ne has declared does not exist. To him everything is hard, material substance; man is no more than a mechanism …

The Affinity In Ideals And Ideas Between Robert Browning And Edmond Rostand, John Berhold Lorenze

Bachelors’ Theses

The scope of the following thesis is confined to a comparison and a collation of the ideas and ideals of Robert Browning as expressed in his poems, with those of Edmond Rostand, as expressed in his plays; to point out their similarity and their dissimilarity; to demonstrate the fact that Browning lived in an age of skepticism and was himself free from doubt, while Rostand lived in an age of realism and was himself an idealist; to show, therefore, that both stood outside the influences of their age, in that they held fast to certain optimistic conceptions of life, while …

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 …

Origin And Development Of The Heroic Play, Katherine Patricia Kelly

Bachelors’ Theses

There is no event in this world which has not had its beginning, no matter how important or how insignificant when it began, and, with this beginning a development followed making this event more important or more trivial. In Politics, in Art, in the very civilization there has always been one great leader in whom an idea had its birth. And, successors carried on its development.

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 …

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 …

The Labors Of Friars Minor In New Mexico, Florian B. Zuchowski

Bachelors’ Theses

New Mexico is a century older in European civilization, and several centuries older in a semicivilization of its own, than any other part of the United States. It had its walled cities of stone long before the time of Columbus, and has some of them yet. Romantic as it is in itself, with its vast adobe buildings, its abrupt mountains, its canyons, its mesas, its gaunt, treeless plains, its intense blue sky, and over all its oriental sunlight, it is no less romantic in its history of the Spanish conquest, recording superhuman marches of the soldiers, sudden and overwhelming rebellions …

French Indo-China In Its Relation To American Trade Expansion In The Orient, Edgar Theiler

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis seeks to accomplish three main purposes: First, to show the need of America for new markets; second, to encourage American trade in the Orient; and, third, to submit a plan whereby the United States could acquire French Indo-China and establish an entrepot in the Far East for American foreign trade. The plan proposed is a complete and unconditional transfer of French Indo-China to the United States as payment for the French war debt and accrued interest. In the analysis of the financial situation of France, much stress has been laid on the reference: "The French Debt Problem"-by H. …

Catullus And The Alexandrian Movement In Latin Verse, Dalton Victor Rourk

Bachelors’ Theses

Catullus has been called- the most enigmatical of the great poets, and the reason is evident at once upon any attempt to arrive at definite information concerning his life. (1) According to Jerome (2), he was born in 87 B.C. and died in 57 B.C. Since Ovid says (3) "Juvenilia cinctus- tempora....docte Catulle,'' and from other sources it is known that he died young, Jerome (or rather Suetonius), is at least consistent. Opposed to this date for his death is his reference (4) to the consulship of Vatinius, who did not become consul until the end of 47 B.C. But …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

A Comparison Of John Dryden's Prose With That Of John Henry Newman, Walter Bronk Celichowski

Bachelors’ Theses

In order to gain a clear idea of this thesis, it is necessary to sketch briefly each author's life. Thus we will be able to distinguish the various characteristics of their early careers. This will aid in clearing up points which, otherwise would seem difficult, without any prelimin­ary knowledge of each man's life.

John Dryden was born in 1631 at Aldwinkle in Northamptonshire, his parents being members of the upper middle class and of Puritan sympathies. He was sent.to the Westminster school, and thence in 1650 to Trinity College Cambridge, where he remained at least seven years. During this time …

Social Effects Of The American Occupation Of The Philippines, Pedro Catuncan

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis has been written with the intention of setting forth the real conditions of the Philippines as they were before 1898, and after the American Occupation in the Philippines . I have disregarded all speculations for and against any measures , fearing that they might hinder me in arriving at a fair conclusion about the Philippines .

Edmund Burke, The Rhetorician And Orator, Lawrence Francis Brock

Bachelors’ Theses

Edmund Burke, the orator, is familiar to all who claim any knowledge of English literature; but it is to be feared that the literary worth of his works has been little appreciated by the casual student of Burke. His name immediately conjures up in our minds a comparison with Cicero, Webster and O'Connell rather then with Newman, Arnold or Ruskin, those whose mastery of style and beautiful prose thought have been the model of all English scholars even to our own time. It is the failing too often of treating the oratory and rhetoric of Burke as things apart and …