The Relative Desirability of Two Types of Junior College Operation (open access)

The Relative Desirability of Two Types of Junior College Operation

The problem of this study was to determine whether it is more desirable to operate a two-year college in the Dallas metropolitan area as a county college or to operate a two-year college under the administration of the Dallas Independent School District.
Date: January 1959
Creator: White, Talmadge Thayne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Foliar Absorption of Mineral Nutrients With Special Reference to the Use of Radioisotopes and The "Leaf Washing Technique" (open access)

Foliar Absorption of Mineral Nutrients With Special Reference to the Use of Radioisotopes and The "Leaf Washing Technique"

Foliar absorption rates for phosphorus-32 and calcium-45 in beam plants were determined. (C.H.)
Date: January 1, 1959
Creator: Jyung, W. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Christian Orthodoxy in the English Novel 1930-1950 (open access)

Christian Orthodoxy in the English Novel 1930-1950

This thesis discusses Christian orthodoxy in the English novel during the time period from 1930 to 1950.
Date: January 1959
Creator: Burleson, James B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Language Arts Program for Ninth-Grade Slow Learning Pupils (open access)

A Language Arts Program for Ninth-Grade Slow Learning Pupils

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of discerning the traits of a group of pupils who have low levels of learning and developing for them a more appropriate "differentiated program" of instruction in language arts.
Date: January 1959
Creator: Denson, Henry Harold
System: The UNT Digital Library
Color Preferences of Children in a Dallas Public School (open access)

Color Preferences of Children in a Dallas Public School

The problem of this study examines two questions which were posed. First, would color preferences of children in the N.W. Harllee School of the Dallas Independent School District be the same as those found in other studies of color preferences of elementary school children? Second, would there be differences in choices made by low academic aptitude groups and high academic aptitude groups? In an attempt to answer these questions, a series of tests was devised and administered to children grades IV through VII.
Date: January 1959
Creator: Foster, Lonnie George
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Effectiveness of Citizenship Education as it is Taught in the Public Secondary Schools of Texas (open access)

A Study of the Effectiveness of Citizenship Education as it is Taught in the Public Secondary Schools of Texas

The purpose of this study is to determine whether students in Texas high schools are receiving adequate citizenship education, to see what factors are responsible for the present situation, and finally to search for possible improvements in civic education and possible solutions for specific problems.
Date: January 1959
Creator: Gale, Patricia Harberson
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Serological Investigation of Actinomycetes as a Preliminary to Taxonomic Study (open access)

A Serological Investigation of Actinomycetes as a Preliminary to Taxonomic Study

This thesis is a serological investigation of actinomycetes as a preliminary to taxonomic study.
Date: January 1959
Creator: Hamilton, Lawrence Edwin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gamma Rays from Neutron Excitation of Cs133 (open access)

Gamma Rays from Neutron Excitation of Cs133

This thesis explores gamma rays from neutron excitation of Cs133.
Date: January 1959
Creator: Lamb, Billy Leonard
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shakespeare's Monarchical Views (open access)

Shakespeare's Monarchical Views

The purpose of this study is to treat one aspect of Shakespeare's political views, his views on monarchy as found in the two great English history tetralogies, and to compare them to the monarchical views of his age.
Date: January 1959
Creator: Lewis, Barbara Bennet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stimulus Values of the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test Designs (open access)

Stimulus Values of the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test Designs

The purpose of this study is to investigate differences in the stimulus value of the Bender Gestalt designs. It is concerned with both differences in structural values and affective values of the nine figures. The investigation is primarily concerned with the reliability of such differences, and secondarily with the general nature of the differences in stimulus value.
Date: January 1959
Creator: McDaniel, James Winnard, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Synthesis of 5-Hetero-Substituted Dihydro-4,6(1H,5H)-Pyrimidinediones (open access)

The Synthesis of 5-Hetero-Substituted Dihydro-4,6(1H,5H)-Pyrimidinediones

This thesis describes the attempt to synthesize some 5-hetero-substituted dihydro-4,6(1H,5H)-pyrimidinediones as possible anticonvulsants.
Date: January 1959
Creator: Matthews, Don Morris
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Friedel-Craft Reactions of Phenolic Ethers (open access)

A Study of the Friedel-Craft Reactions of Phenolic Ethers

The original purpose of this investigation was to prepare a series of diketones. However, since considerable difficulty was encountered in the preparation of these diketones, attention was shifted to a study of the Friedel-Craft reactions of phenolic ethers and to the reaction between phenolic ethers and dicarboxylic acids with boron trifluoride as a catalyst.
Date: January 1959
Creator: Roberson, Charles Ray
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Treatment of Nature in Thomas Hardy's Six Major Novels (open access)

The Treatment of Nature in Thomas Hardy's Six Major Novels

The purpose of this thesis is to examine Thomas Hardy's treatment of nature in his major works. His interpretation of nature was sharply divergent from the traditional viewpoint regarding the natural world, and it was the direct antithesis of those interpretations of nature made by the writers who had preceded him.
Date: January 1959
Creator: Spann, Marjorie Williams
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measures of Local Fiscal Ability to Supoort Public Schools (open access)

Measures of Local Fiscal Ability to Supoort Public Schools

The primary purposes of this study are fourfold, namely: (1) to summarize the writings of specialists in school finance and public finance which are judged to have significance concerning the nature, source, control, and measurement of local fiscal ability; (2) to develop an analytical evaluation of the "bases" of the proposed measures; (3) to develop a criterion of the relative taxpaying ability of Arkansas counties in terms of the actual valuation of real property; and (4) to determine the significance of the association among the three measures and the relative significance of the degree of relationship of each measure to the criterion.
Date: January 1959
Creator: Wetherington, Allen Burton
System: The UNT Digital Library