Domination and Persuasion as Means of Social Control in a Boy Scout Organization (open access)

Domination and Persuasion as Means of Social Control in a Boy Scout Organization

The problem of this study is to determine the extent to which domination and persuasion are employed as methods of social control in fifteen Boy Scout troops in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Date: 1947
Creator: Shaw, Euline
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine the Effect of Certain Environmental Conditions upon Study (open access)

To Determine the Effect of Certain Environmental Conditions upon Study

The problem under consideration is to determine the effect of certain environmental conditions upon the process of studying. This study attempts to answer the question, How much effect, positive or negative, will various environmental conditions have upon study?
Date: 1947
Creator: Daniel, Artie Arwell
System: The UNT Digital Library
Implications for the Homemaking Program Found in the Home Activities of Junior High School Girls (open access)

Implications for the Homemaking Program Found in the Home Activities of Junior High School Girls

The purposes of this study are these: (1) To determine the types of home activities carried on by junior high school girls; (2) To determine the time spent on these activities; (3) To determine the extent to which the activities are self-directed; (4) To point out some implications which these activities have for the school homemaking program.
Date: 1947
Creator: McLean, Estella Price
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interesting the Disinterested School Child through Arts and Crafts (open access)

Interesting the Disinterested School Child through Arts and Crafts

The problem is to determine why fifteen lower grade pupils were absent from school so many times during the previous year and to ascertain whether the pupils' attendance records could be improved in the present year through arts and crafts.
Date: 1947
Creator: Lindsey, Vera Grace
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Proposed Plan for Administering Special Education in the Allen Independent School (open access)

A Proposed Plan for Administering Special Education in the Allen Independent School

The purpose of this study is to set up, by reading, observing, and discussing the different phases of Special Education, a proposed plan for administering a more adequate educational program for the exceptional children of the Allen Public School.
Date: 1947
Creator: Moseley, Wendell H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Growth and Development of the Recreation Program of Fort Worth, Texas as a Related Factor to the Growth of the City from 1888 to 1947 (open access)

The Growth and Development of the Recreation Program of Fort Worth, Texas as a Related Factor to the Growth of the City from 1888 to 1947

This study was made to show the relationship of the growth and development of the city, and the park system to the recreation movement of Fort Worth, Texas from 1873-1947. This information was gathered from the following sources: annexation files of the city secretary and city engineer, annual reports of the city of Fort Worth, Texas, the charter of the city of Fort Worth, Texas, the History of Fort Worth Park system, the minutes of Public Recreation Board, and the personnel of city officials.
Date: August 1947
Creator: Vick, Harold V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disposition of Disputed Cases, Involving Non-Basic Wage, Union Security, and Non-Wage Issues of the Oil Refining Industry by the Eighth Regional War Labor Board (open access)

Disposition of Disputed Cases, Involving Non-Basic Wage, Union Security, and Non-Wage Issues of the Oil Refining Industry by the Eighth Regional War Labor Board

This investigation is a study of the issues involved in the disputed cases pertaining to the Oil Refining Industry which were certified to the Eighth Regional War Labor Board serving Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana during World War II.
Date: 1947
Creator: Grubbs, Kenneth R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Proposed Plan to Improve the Present System of Administering Special Education for Exceptional Children on a County-Wide Basis in Collin County (open access)

A Proposed Plan to Improve the Present System of Administering Special Education for Exceptional Children on a County-Wide Basis in Collin County

This problem sets forth a proposal whereby the children who are classified in one of the categories for Special Education for "exceptional children", in Collin County Texas, may receive the most benefits from a program that is administered on a county-wide basis.
Date: 1947
Creator: Haralson, G. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library