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Education For The Wise Use Of Leisure Time In The Schools Of Today, Edna J. Shafer Jul 1933

Education For The Wise Use Of Leisure Time In The Schools Of Today, Edna J. Shafer

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the purpose of the writer to discuss briefly, education for the wise use of leisure time in the schools of today. Throughout the history of education there has often come to expression a belief that the school has a large obligation in creating interests that will express themselves in spare time as recreational activities which will be wholesome and satisfying. Such would be an actual cultural education.

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The Morrison Plan In The Junior High School Social Studies, Jane B. Golden Jul 1933

The Morrison Plan In The Junior High School Social Studies, Jane B. Golden

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis is an attempt to demonstrate, explain, and evaluate the Morrison unit plan as it is applied to the social sciences in the Junior high school* For helpful instructions in the Morrison plan my thanks are due to Professor Putsch of Marquette University and to Henry C. Morrison, of Chicago University, whose lectures I attended at the Shorewood high school, and who personally recommended to me some texts in the social sciences which followed his technique. Grateful acknowledgements are due Professor Treacy of Marquette University who directed the content of this thesis, and Dr. Vander Beke who assisted me …

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Mental And Physical Traits Of A Fifth Grade, Bernadette E. Slaney May 1932

Mental And Physical Traits Of A Fifth Grade, Bernadette E. Slaney

Bachelors’ Theses

This Thesis deals with the Mental and Physical Traits of a Fifth Grade. It puts to practical use the tests available for classroom work. It gives the differences in abilities of a Fifth Grade in phases measured. The Illinois General Intelligence and the Kuhlman-Anderson Tests for Grade Five were administered for an age-grade status. The subject quotients were found by means of the Stanford Achievement Test.

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Annual Report 1932, Brown/Risd Feb 1932

Annual Report 1932, Brown/Risd

Annual Reports

In this Community Art Project report the effective administration of a grant received by the Carnegie Corp. was discussed. The purpose of the grant was to develop Art interests within the community of Providence and Rhode Island and to strengthen the Art Department at Brown University. Many speakers and programs concerning art, architecture and music took place. There were some concerts at the RISD Museum of Art and Sayles Hall that were well attended.

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Intelligence Testing For School Application, Estelle C. Schraeder Feb 1932

Intelligence Testing For School Application, Estelle C. Schraeder

Bachelors’ Theses

The chief concern of education today is how to help an individual realize his life's ultimate goal as completely as possible by urging and developing-his possibilities through the basis of what he has. In the very recent years the foremost problem in child training has been how to make the school fit the child rather than the child fit the school. The vital question is how to make a child's school work a part of his life and to bring into effect a congruity between "lesson learning", and experience. During the past ten years, education has become more of a …

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A Study Of Two Hundred Boys Of The Kentucky Houses Of Reform, Frances E. Djen Wei Jan 1931

A Study Of Two Hundred Boys Of The Kentucky Houses Of Reform, Frances E. Djen Wei

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Survey Of Intelligence Tests, Godfrey F. Schulz Jul 1930

Survey Of Intelligence Tests, Godfrey F. Schulz

Bachelors’ Theses

The aim of this paper is to give what I consider the most important phases of mental testing. In the first place I shall write of the "History of Intelligence Testing ." In this part of the work I shall show how mental testing grew out of the study of individual differences and also out of the study of human behavior. I also wish to show what the different countries, those of France, Germany, England and the United States, contributed toward the development of mental testing. In the second place I shall show the two different sides of the controversy …

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Play In Education, Lena Loveland Apr 1930

Play In Education, Lena Loveland

Bachelors’ Theses

The activities to which children and adults spontaneously turn in their leisure are becoming increasingly significant features of present day life. The present standard of living has resulted not only in greater material comfort and more leisure for the wealthy, but it has made possible a diffusion of the gains of civilization providing greater material comfort and greater leisure for the masses.

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Discipline As A Moral Issue In The Elementary School, Jeanette M. Whalen Apr 1930

Discipline As A Moral Issue In The Elementary School, Jeanette M. Whalen

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to point out how discipline is still a big problem for the inexperienced teacher, and that as a moral issue it is also a perplexing problem confronting the experienced teacher. In the first chapter it shows that a good understanding of psychology is necessary to approach the problem of discipline and that the teacher must have the qualities necessary to make her a leader and an inspiration to those in her charge. In the following chapters the method of instilling good morals and producing healthy moral characters is brought out by means of co-ordination …

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The Place Of Extra-Curricular Activities In The Junior High School, Borgia Rettler Jun 1928

The Place Of Extra-Curricular Activities In The Junior High School, Borgia Rettler

Bachelors’ Theses

"Extra-Curricular Activities" is becoming a familiar phrase. It refers to "those legitimate activities which ·are not provided for in that part of the school program which is usually designated as the curriculum." (1) The phrase is apparently new, yet the activities it refers to · are, in elementary form, as old as our educational system itself. · The Friday afternoon exercises, the spell-downs, and athletics under various forms, are of long standing in American schools. Previous to the last ten or fifteen years, however, such activities were carried on in an unsystematic way and consequently had no definite plan of …

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Colby College 1820-1925: An Account Of Its Beginnings, Progress And Service, Edwin Carey Whittemore Jan 1927

Colby College 1820-1925: An Account Of Its Beginnings, Progress And Service, Edwin Carey Whittemore

Colby Books

The definitive history of Colby College's first century.

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Essentials In Voice Training, Nancy E. Canan May 1923

Essentials In Voice Training, Nancy E. Canan

Bachelors’ Theses

The Voice is the greatest instrument that there is in existence It has the power to make more tones varying in quality than any instrument made by man. It is the most beautiful of instruments, in that each voice has its own peculiar beauty. But botwithstanding [sic] all this, this beautiful instrument is treated with less care than those made ny man. How many people learn to take care of the voice just because it is a beautiful instrument? People buy musical instruments and treat them with great care when they know that they can replace them if necessary, but …

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