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John E. Massey : Lawyer, Minister, Public Servant, Educator, Pattie Phillips Hargrove

Master's Theses

When you study the life of a man, it is necessary also to know the times in which he lived. The events that are taking place influence the life of the man. Therefore I think it is good to know a little of the history of Virginia during the time of John E. Massey. For the century in which he lived the great Civil War took place which influenced the lives of the people of the nation and which especially affected Virginians because part of the war was fought on the soil of Virginia.

Truancy : Its Sociological Implications, Helen Marie Hulcher

Master's Theses

The term,"truancy", is interpreted in various ways. Julia Richman, District Superintendent of the Public Schools of New York in 1909, said, "The law in some states defines "truancy" as a failure to attend school, making no difference between the parents offense in keeping the child at home and the child's offense in remaining away from school without the parent's knowledge. It is this latter form which the school and the school alone must check." A. o. Neal, Superintendent of Schools, Franklin,Indiana, in the same year said, "Some Juvenile courts in Indiana have held that the truancy law means not only …

Religion In Education, Adele Eames Franks

Master's Theses

!he purpose ot this study is to review one of the pressing problems of education its relation to religion in the light of the cultural changes in our democratic society, and in the light of the scientific study of religion. Studies in religion during the last fifty years have shown with increasing clarity that religion is not an isolated and specialized experience in and of itself but a potential quality that inheres in any and every experience of normal living, operating in the realm of appreciation and values.

Studies of our changing culture of the last fifty years have …

Federal Aid To Schools, Madge Arbogast Henderson

Master's Theses

It is my purpose in this thesis to present as far as possible an analysis of the social and economic bases of national interest in education. It would appear that a nation which is able to prepare for war so speedily, so effectively, apparently so efficiently as did this United States of America can "afford" to educate every citizen for democracy and the democratic way of life. The nation did not set up draft boards in each state independent of the National Government, but rather the National Government took and assumed the responsibility of setting up draft boards in each …

Educational Problems In China, Wei Yoen Tu

Master's Theses

For muny centuries the Chinese had very little contact with outside world. Mountains, desert, and ocean were barriers which helped to protect the Chinese and their country from foreign invasions. Because of this isolation, China produced a civilization which is entirely different from others. The ancient Chinese civilization was so well established that it has survived; uninterrupted and not greatly changed to the present century. For a long time it was a great advantage to the Chinese to be shut away from the outside while the Occidentals were making steady progress. The progressive scientific knowledge and the genius of various …

History And Educational Philosophy Of Seventh-Day Adventist Secondary Schools, Carl William Shafer

Master's Theses

In introducing this subject, History and Educational Philosophy of Seventh-day Adventist Secondary Schools, it is important first that the need and purpose of Christian education be stated. If there is no real need or no real purpose, then Seventh-day Adventists have no right to sacrifice their means and energies in the establishing and maintaining of these secondary schools the world over.

Seventh-day Adventists have believed, from the beginning of their movement, that Christian education is the only answer to the education of the full man. All great educators agree that if education does what it should do, it develops the …