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Fort Hays State University

1936

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Factor Analysis Versus Clinical Analysis Of Intelligence, Betty Margaret Martinson Oct 1936

Factor Analysis Versus Clinical Analysis Of Intelligence, Betty Margaret Martinson

Master's Theses

The technique of mental testing has in the period since 1905 grown to its present status as a useful tool in every psychological clinic and laboratory. A very brief discussion of its development is here included to indicate the relation of its historical antecedents to various theories of intelligence and especially the one on which the present work rests.

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A Financial Study Of The City Of Hays, Ellis County, Kansas, Lorenze Randall Bingham May 1936

A Financial Study Of The City Of Hays, Ellis County, Kansas, Lorenze Randall Bingham

Master's Theses

The great problem of municipal finance with which a majority of our municipalities are confronted at the present time is a problem that can be attacked only through a slow process of analysis and investigation. Slashing of salaries, indiscriminate dispensing with the various services offered by the city in prosperous times, and increasing of bonded indebtedness will not in any sense provide a permanent solution to the problem. The difficulty is in tracing the course of money taken in by the city from its source to its ultimate use in providing that which the citizens demand. When this has been …

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The Sheriff's Office Of Ellis County, Kansas, Eugene A. Mcfarland May 1936

The Sheriff's Office Of Ellis County, Kansas, Eugene A. Mcfarland

Master's Theses

This study has been made in the field of local government. It deals only with the sheriff's office in Ellis county , Kansas. The statutes of Kansas and their application and function show that this office is primarily the same today as it was in England in the seventeenth century. A study of the sheriff's office relates that the powers and duties are similar in Ellis county to those in England when the sheriff was a servant of the King and his court. Frequent changes have been made but the facts still remain that one of the main defects is …

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John Ruskin, His Social Philosophy, Frank Willis Cunningham Jan 1936

John Ruskin, His Social Philosophy, Frank Willis Cunningham

Master's Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to set forth the teachings of John Ruskin, to explain them in the light of the day in which he lived, to compare them with recent economic thought, and to point out their influence on the trend of economic thought. With this in mind the author set out first , to develop briefly, the social and economic doctrines preceding and during the time of John Ruskin in order to better understand Ruskin’s social philosophy. To still further enlighten the reader concerning the philosophy of Ruskin a brief biography is presented in which the influence …

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The Trend Of Financing Urban Property, Irvine F. Wilson Jan 1936

The Trend Of Financing Urban Property, Irvine F. Wilson

Master's Theses

This thesis is intended as a survey of terns in financing urban property. Urban property as construed by this study includes all incorporated cities, towns, and villages. This interpretation is used firstly, in order that a more complete analysis might be pictured, and secondly, because investments in property are not necessarily restricted because of the number of inhabitants in a particular town or city.

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