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The Limitations Of Impressionism In Literature, Thomas J. Campbell

Bachelors’ Theses

The farmer on plowing a field for the first time, almost invariably, marks out the course of the first furrow with stakes. That is, he must plant at least three stakes by which he may strike out straightly the first furrow upon which the condition of all the following furrows depend. Now we are not going to plow a new tract of land, because literary criticism has been hashed over again and again, but we do need a little of the farmer's prevision and precaution in entering such a large and diverse field as literary criticism embraces. We too, must …

Eugene O'Neill And The Advance Of The English Drama, Margaret Flower

Bachelors’ Theses

Being a narration of the life of Eugene O'Neill, American. dramatist,and of the varied circumstances therein, education travel and occupation, which may have some bearing on his dramatic work.

The Existence Of The Natural Law Among Primitive People, Ernest Frederick Kremer

Bachelors’ Theses

As men we are concerned with everything that concerns man. Having to some degree satisfied our instincts on that score we commence to wonder how long it has concerned man. With this thought in mind we wonder if Primitive man was bound by any law. We say that there existed among primitive people a natural law. In the following pages we will attempt to prove that statement.

Life Of John Warwick Daniel, Ruth Lazenby

Honors Theses

John Warwick Daniel was born on the 5th of September, 1824, in Lynchburg, and died on the 29th of June, 1910. Only sixty-eight years of life, a short period when one measures the span of a lifetime and yet he crowded into these years so much that he has rightly come to be called soldier and orator, jurist and lawgiver, statesman and senator. As a soldier he was brave, loyal and devoted to duty, winning many honors for courage and gallantry. As an orator he was noted for his eloquence, charm and unsurpassed beauty of language, and it was perhaps …

Virginia's Attitude Toward The Compromise Of 1850, Anne T. Gordon

Honors Theses

As with an individual, a great conflict develops character and causes expression of ideals, so in the life of a nation conflicts develop the people, and give us a knowledge of their ideals and principles. It is mainly with the latter aspect of one great conflict - the struggle over the Compromise of 1850 - that this paper will deal. In this short article an effort will be made to show the attitude of Virginia - one section, small in territorial expanse when compared with the whole, but large in influence, as she faced this problem on the solution of …

Pauline Eschatology, Luther A. Schuessler

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

The purpose of this inquiry is to present a brief resume of Pauline Eschatology in the narrow sense as it is represented in the thirteen Epistles of Paul and in the discourses attributed to him in the Book of the Acts. Since these Epistles and discourses comprehend the cardinal truths of eschatology, the value of this inquiry is obvious.

The Christology Of The Apostolic Fathers, Carl J. Spilman

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

It is the aim of this study to gather all material in the Apostolic fathers that has any bearing upon Christ, His person and His work; to examine in detail the Christological teachings of .each writer; and finally, in conclusion, to show that there are no stages of development, and that no thought is found in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers that has not been set forth by the New Testament.

The Doctrine Of The Resurection In The Old Testament, Arthur E. Neitzel

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

Abraham, as well as the other believers of the Old Testament era, believed in the "God who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they, were.”(Romans 4,17 )

The Economic Basis Of The American Revolution, Eda Kenkel

Bachelors’ Theses

A searching inquiry into the causes of the American Revolution, a study simply of what led the heretofore passive colonists to open revolt against the mother country, is apt to produce results which in themselves may appear revolutionary. Such a candid examination will make both tyrannical king and parliament and idealistic American patriots disappear, for in no war has either friend or fee been entirely in the right. In the past American historians have devoted page after page to discussing the Revolution, and with few exceptions, these accounts have been greatly to the glory of the brave and high minded …

The Human Will Is Free, Richard V. Carpenter

Bachelors’ Theses

The freedom of the will is one of the most important questions in philosophy. So much has been written on the subject that it hardly seems worth while to treat it in a thesis in which nothing can be said which has not already been said a number of times. The two opposing parties in the controversy have completed their respective cases; they have fully entrenched themselves behind volumes and volumes of weighty libraries and are now but waiting new recruits. As a matter of fact, though both sides of the debate seem to have exhausted their arguments, though they …

The English Inn In English Literature, Eugene E. Ball

Bachelors’ Theses

Perhaps no institution holds higher rank in, or has had more influence on English literature than the English Inn. Famed alike in song and story, it has come down to us through the centuries as a sacred sanctuary of thought and culture, where the creators of the sagas of our native tongue sought congenial companionship, where the sharp flash of wit, and the quick thrust of repartee kindled inspiration into flame.

The Necessary Relation Of Morality To Literature And Its Apparent Neglect In Our Modern Works, Muriel Bruett

Bachelors’ Theses

Literature has a purpose beyond itself, the expression of truth, the transmission of knowledge from generat1on to generation, and the elevation and strengthening of the man. It is clear that the purpose of reading is to put ourselves into communication with the best minds of the race. Unless we read a man for all there is in him, we gain little but a disorganized group of pages. Books should be real things. For if we admit that there is an intrinsic value in anything, we must admit the objective value of literature, that there is something which stamps a book …

Shakespeare And Ben Jonson, Oliver E. Kuechle

Bachelors’ Theses

One may look back to the greatest heights in the classical periods of any people, back to the Athenians, Romans, Spaniards, Germans, French, and one will find no where any period which for its virlity, strength and fullness of dramatic art compares equally to the great Elizabethan age in English history in which lived those two aristocrats of English literature, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson .

From Cape Town To Cairo, Leslie L. Jones

Honors Theses

Cecil Rhodes has been dead twenty-two years. The flesh of the man has long since become dust; his dreams are about to become realities... two slender streaks of shining steel form Cape Town to Cairo. For the red now cleaves the heart of Africa, north and south, from the Inner Sea to The Cape of Good Hope. A great splash of red up and down this vast continent where fifty years ago but little red was to be seen.

And this is the simple task I have set myself in the present paper: accounting for the red, this astonishing growth …

Indication Of The Attitude Of Virginia Colleges Toward The Institution Of Slavery, 1800-1860, Katherine Tyler

Honors Theses

It was natural that the Virginia college should concern themselves with the all-important subject of slavery in the sixty years' interval of the widespread discussion which cumulated in one of the most bitter and distressing struggles that the United States has ever experienced. For, had not Virginia always taken the foremost stand in any matter concerning the South's welfare, and was not her heartfelt anxiety representative of all her fellow states?

Alleged Discrepancies Of Second Samuel, Tr. Rehwaldt

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

The purpose then, of this treatise regarding the Second Book of Samuel is to examine the discrepancies, expressly alleged by critical scholars. Are the objections raised against the passages involved justified! Must the inaccuracies be ascribed to a certain•·document, a later redactor, or reviser! Are the discrepancies real or merely apparent! These are the questions which come into consideration.

The Christian Religion Vs Philonism And Stoicism, Otto P. Kretzmann

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

The study of Comparative Religions and the application of the evolutionistic principle to the field of religion have in the last decades lent tremendous impetus to inquiries into the origin of Christianity and the philosophical background of the New Testament. Every remnant of the ancient philosophic literature has been carefully examined by writers with a naturalistic tendency in order to discover some natural explanation for the thought and phraseology of the New Testament. An examination of these alleged points of contact, which are supposed to have exerted such a tremendous influence on nascent Christianity, together with a critical estimate of …

Die Geschichtlichkeit Der Patriarchen (The Historicity Of The Patriarchs), Robert M. Schalm

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

Die Geschichtlichkeit Der Patriarchen (The Historicity of the Patriarchs)

The Angel Of The Lord In The Old Testament, Erich M. Keller

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

The Angel of the Lord in the Old Testament

The Theology Of Israel (From Abraham To Moses), Leroy C. Rincker

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

We have thus endeavored to present Israel's early conception of God. The critical theories have been· tried and found wanting. They are weak and instead of. going to the core of the matter• they harp on external details. At times we were grieved by the blasphemous assertions of men, who refuse to bend their way to embrace plain facts; then again the :naive and arbitrary interpretations of Gunkel and Goldziher have interested and amused us.

The Relation Of Psychology To Medicine: A Philosophical Thesis, Stephen A. Knaisel

Bachelors’ Theses

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The Expulsion Of Sir John Harvey From Virginia, William Warner Moss

Honors Theses

Whe n King James began to fear the preaching of Sir Edwin Sanys and the meetings of the Virginia Company, believing that the seeds they sowed were too democratic, he felt sure that the dissolution or at least the royal control of the Companyw as a necessity. He therefore attempted to interfere in the election of the treasurer but failed. Enraged, he commanded Captain Nathaniel Butler to write a libel entitled "The Unmasking of Virginia", which held the Virginia Company responsible for all the evils in America.

This served him little better than his interference, so, in April 1623, he …

John Taylor: A Study In American Social Philosophy, John Vincent Ford

Historical Dissertations & Theses

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The Religious Conditions Of Italy And Greece, Ewald Martin Plass

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

Especially the theologian will find a careful study of these centuries of great value. It is the 'beginning of Christianity in its contact and conflict with Heathenism that one must unmistakably sees the secret of its power. It is then that one fully realizes that it is not only the sould, but also--thank God-the perfect remedy for a sin sick world. It is during these centuries that one cu plainly recognize God in history, that one is convinced secular history is but the background of church history and the entire world but the scaffold employed 'by God almighty to build …

The Importance Of Truth: Nonfictive Bases For The Novels And Short Stories Of Robert Mcalmon, Edward N. S. Lorusso

English Language and Literature ETDs

Robert McAlmon's fiction was never published in the United States during his lifetime. Not until the 1960s, a decade after his death, did American versions of Being Geniuses Together and Distinguished Air appear. Most recently, the University of New Mexico Press has published three McAlmon books: Village, Post-Adolescence, and Miss Knight and Others. This new accessibility will allow a reevaluation of his work.

McAlmon most often wrote about his own life and the lives of those around him. While contemporaries dismissed him as a mere reporter, McAlmon can now be seen as writing nonfiction novels and short stories, decades before …

Francis Thompson's Place In English Literature, Mary Frances Oswald

Bachelors’ Theses

Little cared Francia Thompson about the place that might be assigned him, after hie death, among the singers upon earth, enjoying as he did, the proud assurance of a place "in the nurseries of Heaven", singing forever hi a "Jubilate!" and "Laudate!"

The Beginnings Of English Dramatic Literature, Clarence Francis Dickopf

Bachelors’ Theses

No art has been practiced by human beings from the beginning. We only find a gradual development. We have men, however, who were born with a gift of genius, who were unconscious of the laws and rules governing their respective spheres. We read of a Mozart, a Michaelangelo and a host of other gifted men whose art came to them intuitively. These are exceptions. Art has laboriously grown, and so it is with our own dramatic art, we see its gradual development. In order to study English drama intelligently we must know its origins or beginnings, how it arose from …

The Human Soul Is Simple, Spiritual, Immortal, Robert S. Mccarthy

Bachelors’ Theses

Much of our thinking today is regulated by propaganda. Propaganda is not confined to patriotic bureaus of any one nation, or to the espionage department of the army and navy of any one government; neither is propaganda limited to national affairs, nor to the field of politics. Propaganda of a certain type has found its way even into the sacred sanctum of philosophy. Think of how many philosophical theories we have today, which in final analysis are intended to serve the purpose of a well-directed campaign of proselytising "right thinking". Theories arising from predjudiced minds are spread broadcast, whose mission …

Divorce Is A Great Menace, And Should Be Thoroughly Eradicated, Frederick A. Kurt

Bachelors’ Theses

"What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder". Matt. XIX, 6 "What's done can not be undone." Macbeth.

Marriage is generally accepted to be a contract by which two persons, man and woman, bind themselves to live together, in an indissoluble union until death. With this definition we iterate the properties of marriage, unity, and indissolubility. Such were the properties of marriage at the time of Adam and Eve, and such must be its nature today. As long as husband and wife live in such a union the properties of marriage are not transgressed against. The history of …

The Essence Of The Drama, William M. Lamers

Bachelors’ Theses

"Drama is a representation of the will of man in conflict with the mysterious powers or natural forces which limit and belittle us; it is on e of us thrown living upon the stage, there to struggle against fatality; against social law; against one of his fellow mortals; against himself...; against the ambitions, the interests, the prejudices, the folly, the malevolence of those around him." - Brunetiere, The Law of the Drama.