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The Development of an Intramural Program for Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Boys in the Paschal High School, Fort Worth, Texas (open access)

The Development of an Intramural Program for Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Boys in the Paschal High School, Fort Worth, Texas

The purpose of this study is to develop plans for an intramural program for boys in the Paschal High School, Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: 1942
Creator: Williams, J. R.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Function of Mental Hygiene in the Curriculum of the Elementary School (open access)

The Function of Mental Hygiene in the Curriculum of the Elementary School

The problem of this investigation is to determine the part that mental hygiene should and could assume in promoting the general efficiency of the educational program in the elementary grades.
Date: 1942
Creator: Brashears, Willie Pearl
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Musical Achievement in the Public Schools of Texas (open access)

A Study of Musical Achievement in the Public Schools of Texas

The study at hand has purposes as follows: 1. To measure through a special test the musical knowledge achievement of secondary school music organizations in the state of Texas. 2. To determine the influence of private music instruction upon music knowledge achievement. 3. To determine the influence of family musical propensities upon music knowledge scores. 4. To determine the relation between music knowledge scores on the one hand and type of music organization and size of school enrollment on the other. 5. To compare ratings in music performance with music knowledge achievement.
Date: August 1942
Creator: Walters, Willard Gibson, 1911-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Attitudes of Public School Administrators Toward the Instrumental Music Program (open access)

Attitudes of Public School Administrators Toward the Instrumental Music Program

The purpose of the present study is three-fold in its nature: (1). To determine, by means of interviews and questionnaires, the attitudes of school administrators toward the various aspects of the instrumental music program; (2). To interpret these attitudes in the light of modern music education; (3). To make recommendations for the improvement of the instrumental music program with respect to the findings of the study.
Date: August 1942
Creator: Lawhon, Hardin N. (Hardin Norris)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Proposed Required Physical Education Program for Men in the North Texas State Teachers College, Denton, Texas (open access)

A Proposed Required Physical Education Program for Men in the North Texas State Teachers College, Denton, Texas

The problem of this study was to formulate a required physical education program for men in the North Texas State Teachers College, Denton, Texas.
Date: 1942
Creator: Cobb, Fred
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Need for Co-Operation Among Independent Food Retailers of Denton, Texas (open access)

The Need for Co-Operation Among Independent Food Retailers of Denton, Texas

It has become more and more evident that independent food retailers must co-ordinate their individual efforts if they are to gain an operating efficiency paralleling that of the corporate multiple-unit or chain system. Such co-ordination largely has taken three courses: (1) group buying clubs, (2) wholesale- sponsored voluntary chains, and (3) retailer-owned co-operative warehouses. It is the last of these that this study suggests as the most appropriate course for Denton independent retailers.
Date: June 1942
Creator: Cook, Herschell D.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A History of the Labor Movement in the Oil Industry (open access)

A History of the Labor Movement in the Oil Industry

This is a study of the labor movement in the oil industry from an historical approach.
Date: 1942
Creator: Mullennix, Grady L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine the Curriculum Changes Needed, If Any, to Provide a Standard Vocational High School for the Waco State Home, Waco, Texas (open access)

A Study to Determine the Curriculum Changes Needed, If Any, to Provide a Standard Vocational High School for the Waco State Home, Waco, Texas

The purpose of the study is to make a survey of criteria for a general high school vocational program, to evaluate the vocational program of the Waco State Home High School in this respect, and to make recommendations, where thought necessary, for needed changes in the curriculum.
Date: 1942
Creator: Reed, Walter L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Types of Maladjustment Found in Elementary School Children as Determined by Interviews with Fifty Elementary Teachers (open access)

Types of Maladjustment Found in Elementary School Children as Determined by Interviews with Fifty Elementary Teachers

The purpose of this study is three-fold: 1. To determine the types, causes, and effects of maladjustments found in elementary children. 2. To suggest means of helping maladjusted children adjust themselves to a complex life. 3. To leave data on file for future reference and the use of future elementary teachers who will be confronted with the problems of maladjusted children.
Date: August 1942
Creator: Woodrum, Mildred M.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of Criteria for Evaluating Some Guidance Practices of the Student Council and Home Room Organizations of the Junior High School (open access)

Development of Criteria for Evaluating Some Guidance Practices of the Student Council and Home Room Organizations of the Junior High School

The problem of this study is the development of criteria for the evaluation of some of the guidance practices that are found in the student council and the home room organizations of a junior high school. The major consideration has been given to the development of the evaluative criteria, and not to the evaluation of the practices. The problem may be considered as three-fold in its scope. A solution has been attempted through the following steps: First, it will establish a method of evaluating the practices of the organizations mentioned. Second, it will analyze some of the common practices of these organizations through an application of the evaluative device to the practices. Third, it will record the findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
Date: August 1942
Creator: McCreary, Dorris Christine
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Labor Policy of the Ford Motor Company at Dallas, Texas (open access)

The Labor Policy of the Ford Motor Company at Dallas, Texas

A study of the labor policy of the Ford motor company at Dallas, Texas.
Date: 1942
Creator: Sumner, Vance Davidson
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education on America's Last Frontier (Alaska) (open access)

Education on America's Last Frontier (Alaska)

This thesis covers the history of education in Alaska, the federal school system, the territorial school system, the University of Alaska, Alaska's teachers, and the future of Alaskan education.
Date: 1942
Creator: Garner, Martha Marie Gough
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Teachers' Incomes and Expenditures in Ten Texas Cities (open access)

An Analysis of Teachers' Incomes and Expenditures in Ten Texas Cities

The immediate purpose of this thesis is to show incomes and current living costs of teachers by geographical areas and to draw justified conclusions based upon statistical data regarding necessary and desirable teachers' salaries. Since the survey made by the Bureau of Business Research, University of Texas, included such widely separated cities as Corpus Christi, Austin, Tyler, El Paso, Lubbock, and Abilene, the different sections of the state are well represented.
Date: August 1942
Creator: Buechel, Frederick A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Experimental Study in Developing Initiative in Children (open access)

An Experimental Study in Developing Initiative in Children

The problem of this study is to find the causes for lack of initiative in a group of second grade pupils in the Era School, and to discover, from reading books and magazine articles, what techniques are most successful in developing initiative in the children.
Date: 1942
Creator: Greene, Willie Clara
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Classroom Library in Action in an Integrated Elementary School Program (open access)

The Classroom Library in Action in an Integrated Elementary School Program

The purpose of the study is to determine the library needs of the elementary-grade children of the Willow View School and to develop an activity program to meet their needs.
Date: 1942
Creator: Sweatmon, Mamie Lee
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship Between Theories Used in Dealing With Superior Children and the Growth of Democracy (open access)

The Relationship Between Theories Used in Dealing With Superior Children and the Growth of Democracy

This study centers around the evolution in theory and practice used in dealing with superior children. The manner in which the growth of democracy has influenced this evolution is pointed out.
Date: 1942
Creator: Solomon, Lily A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Educational Program to Fit the Needs of Elementary School Children During War Times (open access)

An Educational Program to Fit the Needs of Elementary School Children During War Times

The problem of this study is: (1) to determine the dominant democratic values which are important to the child; (2) to recognize disturbing elements in the lives of children today which threaten these values, including those eventualities for which the children must be prepared in the light of the experiences of other countries; (3) to discover ways in which some teachers have sought to meet changing conditions; and (4) to combine these findings into a workable program.
Date: 1942
Creator: Spain, Dorothy Wimbish
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Social Maturity and Personality of Primary Pupils in Eight Elementary Schools of Wichita Falls, Texas (open access)

The Relationship between Social Maturity and Personality of Primary Pupils in Eight Elementary Schools of Wichita Falls, Texas

This investigation concerned two major interests of many classroom teachers today: the pupils' social maturity and their personality. The problem was to determine the apparent relationship between these two factors in pupils of the first, second, and third grades of eight elementary schools in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Date: 1942
Creator: Berry, Esther M.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Traditional Versus Progressive Practices in Teaching Composition in the Lower Grades (open access)

Traditional Versus Progressive Practices in Teaching Composition in the Lower Grades

The purpose of this study was to review and present the traditional versus the progressive practices in the teaching of composition as presented in the articles written on the teaching of composition in The Elementary English Review, volumes VIII - XVIII, years, 1931-1941, inclusive.
Date: 1942
Creator: Coston, Elsie May
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Civil Service Reform in the United States during the Nineteenth Century (open access)

Civil Service Reform in the United States during the Nineteenth Century

This thesis traces the reform of civil service through the nineteenth century from the development and growth of the spoils system to the death of William McKinley in 1901.
Date: 1942
Creator: Debenham, James A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Report on Studies Made by Various Agencies and Individuals Relative to Certain Effects of the Depression upon Education in the United States (open access)

A Report on Studies Made by Various Agencies and Individuals Relative to Certain Effects of the Depression upon Education in the United States

Primarily, the purpose of the study was to show the immediate effects of the depression on the educational program in the United States. Secondarily, the writer hoped to encourage teachers not only to ward off another similar catastrophe but also to make the present educational program take care of the devastating effects of the past depression as far as possible.
Date: 1942
Creator: Floyd, Faye
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methods and Procedures Employed in the Operation of the Centralized System of Athletics in the White Senior High Schools of Dallas, Texas, 1931-1940 (open access)

Methods and Procedures Employed in the Operation of the Centralized System of Athletics in the White Senior High Schools of Dallas, Texas, 1931-1940

The purpose of this study was to record and interpret the methods and procedures employed in the operation of the centralized system of the athletic program in the white senior high schools of Dallas, Texas, for the years 1931 through 1940.
Date: 1942
Creator: Cowley, Herman A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Philosophy in The Forsyte Saga (open access)

Philosophy in The Forsyte Saga

A study has been made of (1) the various philosophies of idealism and materialism, (2) the effects of these philosophies upon the life and thought of England in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and (3) the demonstration of these philosophies in John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga with a view to indicating the trends and tendencies in the philosophy of England which have helped to shape the personal and national life of the British people of today.
Date: 1942
Creator: Workman, Claudia Mae
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Educational Objectives of Grandview, Alvarado, and Surrounding Rural Schools (open access)

An Evaluation of the Educational Objectives of Grandview, Alvarado, and Surrounding Rural Schools

The problem constituting the basis of this study is one having to do with an investigation of educational objectives. Specifically, it relates to an examination of teachers' objectives in a strictly limited area of Texas and a comparison of these objectives with those advanced by professional educators and published in literature dealing with educational practices and principles.
Date: 1942
Creator: Martin, Lois Baker
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library