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The History of the Calculus (open access)

The History of the Calculus

The purpose of this essay is to trace the development of the concepts of the calculus from their first known appearance, through the formal invention of the method of the calculus in the second half of the seventeenth century, to our own day.
Date: 1945
Creator: Ashburn, Andrew
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fasting Hour Excretion Test for Riboflavin Using College Women as Subjects (open access)

Fasting Hour Excretion Test for Riboflavin Using College Women as Subjects

The purpose of this study was to determine reserves of riboflavin in urine of college women.
Date: 1945
Creator: Beard, Gertrude Ophelia
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Absolutism : Plato as an Absolutist and His Influence on Modern Education (open access)

A Study of Absolutism : Plato as an Absolutist and His Influence on Modern Education

This thesis is a study of Plato as an absolutist and his influence on modern education.
Date: 1945
Creator: Blackwell, Lizzie Lena
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appeals Made to Employees to Influence Their Decision Regarding Collective Bargaining (open access)

Appeals Made to Employees to Influence Their Decision Regarding Collective Bargaining

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the types of appeals made to employees by employers and labor organizations for the purpose of influencing the employees' decision with respect to accepting or rejecting collective bargaining, and classifying, as near as possible, the types of appeals.
Date: 1945
Creator: Boyd, Sulton J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The History of Acadia Baptist Academy (open access)

The History of Acadia Baptist Academy

The purpose of this study is to give a brief history of Acadia Baptist Academy, giving some facts essential to the development, and to evaluate the curriculum of the Academy.
Date: 1945
Creator: Boyett, Evelyn S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Changes in Selected Social Traits Exhibited by the Campers in Sunshine Camp of Austin, Texas, in the Summer of 1944 (open access)

A Study of the Changes in Selected Social Traits Exhibited by the Campers in Sunshine Camp of Austin, Texas, in the Summer of 1944

The purpose of this study was to evaluate some of the achievements of the camp in furthering the social development of the campers as a means of directing future procedures used in the camp.
Date: 1945
Creator: Bray, Margaret Urite (Marguerite)
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Function of Dramatization in the Elementary School (open access)

The Function of Dramatization in the Elementary School

The purpose of this study is to make an investigation into the studies made and judgment expressed concerning the function of dramatization in the elementary school.
Date: 1945
Creator: Chapel, Hazel Hester
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Anthropometrical Study in the Nutrition of Children, Using the Wetzel Grid (open access)

An Anthropometrical Study in the Nutrition of Children, Using the Wetzel Grid

In this study, an appraisal of the nutritional status of eighty-eight school children has been made, using the Wetzel Index with the Baldwin-Wood Index and the Pryor Index for the determinations.
Date: 1945
Creator: Drew, Bennie P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Program of Films for Teaching in the Primary Grades of the Louisiana Public Schools (open access)

A Program of Films for Teaching in the Primary Grades of the Louisiana Public Schools

The purpose of this study is to provide a compiled list of Louisiana primary motion pictures and their locations for the Louisiana primary teachers.
Date: 1945
Creator: Field, Thelma L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Henry David Thoreau as a Social Critic (open access)

Henry David Thoreau as a Social Critic

A study of Henry David Thoreau's opinions on religion, economics, politics, government, and major political issues of his time.
Date: 1945
Creator: Fussell, Myra Beth
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Relationships Between Socio-Economic Status, Popularity, Achievement, and Personality in the Fifth Grade of the Sanger Public School, Sanger, Texas (open access)

A Study of Relationships Between Socio-Economic Status, Popularity, Achievement, and Personality in the Fifth Grade of the Sanger Public School, Sanger, Texas

The purpose which guided the writer in the conducting of this study was a desire to determine the existence of any relationships which might be perceptible among such traits and considerations as socio-economic status, popularity at school, general scholastic achievement, and traits of personality as they were found in a group of fifth-grade pupils enrolled in the public school of Sanger, Texas.
Date: 1945
Creator: Gentle, Mary Cathlene
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aspects of Reform in Certain Novels of Charles Dickens (open access)

Aspects of Reform in Certain Novels of Charles Dickens

A study of aspects of reform in certain novels of Charles Dickens.
Date: 1945
Creator: Gunstead, Alice
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Content and Methods of Teaching Poetry to Children (open access)

Analysis of Content and Methods of Teaching Poetry to Children

The purpose of this study is to analyze the history and development of children's poetry, and to present helpful suggestions in subject matter and activities for teaching poetry to children.
Date: 1945
Creator: Hardeman, Eula Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
A History of Credit Unions in the United States (open access)

A History of Credit Unions in the United States

The purpose of this thesis is to present a history of the founding, operation, and growth of the credit union movement in the United States, with special emphasis placed on the benefits and services such an organization can render to the thousands and thousands of employees who are classed in the realm of small or moderate income brackets.
Date: 1945
Creator: Hester, Henry Beason
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine the Status, Methods of Conducting, Functions, and Desirability of Literary Activities in the Programs of Secondary Schools of Central West-Texas (open access)

To Determine the Status, Methods of Conducting, Functions, and Desirability of Literary Activities in the Programs of Secondary Schools of Central West-Texas

This study was made for the purpose of determining the status and methods of conducting non-athletic extra-curricular activities in the secondary schools of Central West-Texas with the hope that the findings may prove valuable to school boards and administrators in setting up standards for evaluating their activity programs.
Date: 1945
Creator: James, Thomas McCurry
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Elementary Science Programs in Leading Schools of Texas and Other Southern States as Compared with the Course of Study from the Thirty-First Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (open access)

A Study of the Elementary Science Programs in Leading Schools of Texas and Other Southern States as Compared with the Course of Study from the Thirty-First Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education

The problem, to make a study of the elementary science programs in leading schools of Texas and other Southern states as compared with the course of study from the Thirty-first Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, was chosen as a result of the realization that elementary science has not been given the place in the curriculum that it should have.
Date: 1945
Creator: Kindred, Josie V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Laws Governing the Acquisition, Construction, and Use of School Property in Texas (open access)

A Study of the Laws Governing the Acquisition, Construction, and Use of School Property in Texas

The primary purpose of this study is to gather and organize facts that will be beneficial to those who have the responsibility of directing the affairs of the community in the interest of public education. Superintendents of schools and boards of education will secure a better solution to their problems by studying the laws and the interpretations of law given by the courts. This study has been made in order that this information might be made more available to the interest of school people.
Date: 1945
Creator: Massey, Gabe Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Taxonomic Significance of the Foliar Epidermal Hairs of Several Families of Dicotyledons (open access)

The Taxonomic Significance of the Foliar Epidermal Hairs of Several Families of Dicotyledons

The present investigation deals with the study of non-glandular epidermal hairs from the leaves of two hundred representative dicotyledons of forty-eight families in the Central North Texas area. Special attention has been given to the Compositae and Leguminosae in an effort to find a possible correlation between epidermal hair morphology and the taxonomic position of the plants concerned.
Date: 1945
Creator: McCarty, Faye A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
American Ambassadorial Representation to England from John Adams to Charles Francis Adams (open access)

American Ambassadorial Representation to England from John Adams to Charles Francis Adams

This thesis outlines the history of American ambassadorial representation in England through 1868.
Date: 1945
Creator: Parker, Mary Lois
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is There an Answer to the Current Lack of a Satisfying Philosophy Among the American People? (open access)

Is There an Answer to the Current Lack of a Satisfying Philosophy Among the American People?

This study will seek to show that what appears to be the cause of a lack of a satisfying philosophy among the American people, as evidenced by restless, disintegrating behavior of individuals, is in reality the effect of such a lack.
Date: 1945
Creator: Stovall, Edith Edwards
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Handbook of Instruction for Physical Training Instructors Based upon the Selected Program in Physical Training for the 308th College Training Detachment (Aircrew) at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College (open access)

A Handbook of Instruction for Physical Training Instructors Based upon the Selected Program in Physical Training for the 308th College Training Detachment (Aircrew) at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College

The purpose in writing the handbook of instruction is two-fold: 1. To provide physical training instructors with essential and functional information concerning the aim, objectives, activities, and procedures for the administration and conduct of the selected physical training program of the 308th College Training Detachment at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College. 2. To obtain uniformity in the conduct of the physical training program by various instructors.
Date: 1945
Creator: Segrist, Herman B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of Some Factors Related to Mutual Friendship on the High School Level (open access)

Study of Some Factors Related to Mutual Friendship on the High School Level

This study has been made for the purpose of determining the similarities and dissimilarities in certain factors related to mutual friendships.
Date: 1945
Creator: Averitt, Lois Jane
System: The UNT Digital Library
Famous Ships and Their Influence Upon American History : a Study of Sailing Vessels to 1861 (open access)

Famous Ships and Their Influence Upon American History : a Study of Sailing Vessels to 1861

This thesis is a study of famous ships and how they influenced American history.
Date: 1945
Creator: Winkler, Myra Carroll
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Grievance Procedure in Labor-Management Relations as it Operates within the Eighth Regional War Labor Board (open access)

A Study of Grievance Procedure in Labor-Management Relations as it Operates within the Eighth Regional War Labor Board

This investigation is a study of grievance machinery in industrial relations, as it operates within the Eighth Regional War Labor Board, which serves the states of Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. By grievance machinery is meant the formal procedure through which the worker or his representative must proceed in order to get a grievance or complaint about working conditions, wages, or other items, heard and settled.
Date: 1945
Creator: Martin, Marie G.
System: The UNT Digital Library