Governor's Message to the 56th legislature. (open access)

Governor's Message to the 56th legislature.

A message to Texas legislature about the economics of Texas, money issues within the government of Texas, Texas legislation, and other political issues in Texas.
Date: January 21, 1959
Creator: Price, Daniel
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Diagnostic Potential of Subtest Score Variability in the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (open access)

The Diagnostic Potential of Subtest Score Variability in the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

This study was concerned with testing two hypotheses frequently made in the interpretation of performance on the Children's Scale. The first hypothesis is that maladjustment is directly related to the amount of scatter and the second stresses that the specificity of maladjustment may be determined by the pattern of successes and failures.
Date: August 1959
Creator: Kelly, Richard Clinton
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Factors Affecting the Selection of the Plate Lunch (open access)

Some Factors Affecting the Selection of the Plate Lunch

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the factors affecting the sale of the plate lunch in six of the one hundred twenty-nine Dallas Public School lunchrooms, two each of predominantly Mexican, white and Negro enrollment, when the time is extended to include the entire school year of one hundred eighty school days.
Date: August 1959
Creator: Key, Merlene Hunnicutt
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Democratic Schism in Texas, 1952-1957 : Emergence of National Liberalism in the South (open access)

Democratic Schism in Texas, 1952-1957 : Emergence of National Liberalism in the South

This study is devoted to the activities of the urban liberals and their rural allies in their attempt to wrest control of the state party from the conservative Democrats.
Date: August 1959
Creator: Knox, J. Wendell
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
In-Group and Out-Group Sociometric Choices for Two Groups of College Students Experiencing Different Educational Procedures (open access)

In-Group and Out-Group Sociometric Choices for Two Groups of College Students Experiencing Different Educational Procedures

The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of the social and interpersonal aspect of the Austin College Plan of educational development by carrying out a plan of evaluation designed by the Hogg Foundation of the University of Texas and the Psychology Department of North Texas State College.
Date: August 1959
Creator: Tate, James Oliver, 1929-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Degradation of Complex Carbon Compounds by Marine Actinomycetes (open access)

Degradation of Complex Carbon Compounds by Marine Actinomycetes

The purpose of this paper is to present a comparative study of marine bacteria, molds and actinomycetes in regard to their ability to degrade certain pure and mixed complex compounds possibly occurring in the lagoon waste traps of the Texas Gulf Coast. This comparison was made using a differential oxygen uptake as the index of specific compound utilization.
Date: August 1959
Creator: Willingham, Charles Allen
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
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
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
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
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Psychological Sex and Sociometric Nomination (open access)

Psychological Sex and Sociometric Nomination

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of the psychological sex role of a person making sociometric nominations to the psychological sex role of such persons nominated. It was hypothesized that similar psychological and biological sexed persons would choose each other as friends and that similar psychological but opposite biological sexed persons would reject each other as non-friends.
Date: June 1959
Creator: Holcomb, Ernest Eugene
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Organization and Administration of the Industrial Arts Program in the Junior High Schools in Fort Worth, Texas, with Emphasis upon the Curriculum (open access)

A Study of the Organization and Administration of the Industrial Arts Program in the Junior High Schools in Fort Worth, Texas, with Emphasis upon the Curriculum

The specific purposes of the study are: 1. To ascertain the curriculum pattern with respect to the different phases of industrial arts taught in all the junior high schools. 2. To ascertain the phases or unit and subject matter content taught in each of the junior high schools. 3. To ascertain the grade levels at which the various phases and units of learning are taught in each school. 4. To ascertain if there are variations in subject matter content taught in each of the junior high schools. 5. To make suggestions and recommendations based upon the findings of the study for improving organization and administration of the industrial arts program.
Date: May 1959
Creator: Payne, Robert Furman
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Signs of Paranoid Schizophrenic Behavior on the Bender-Gestalt Test (open access)

Signs of Paranoid Schizophrenic Behavior on the Bender-Gestalt Test

The problem of this study was to isolate a constellation of "signs" or items of behavior of individuals on the Bender-Gestalt test and to determine if these signs will discriminate significantly between one patient category, paranoid schizophrenia, and three other major diagnostic categories.
Date: June 1959
Creator: Price, Joseph Wayne
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methods Used to Classify Men Students Enrolled in the Physical Education Required Program at Selected Colleges and Universities in Texas (open access)

Methods Used to Classify Men Students Enrolled in the Physical Education Required Program at Selected Colleges and Universities in Texas

The purpose of this study is 1. to determine methods currently used by institutions surveyed by the study to classify men students enrolled in physical education required programs; 2. To evaluate methods in use by institutions surveyed by the study to classify men students enrolled in physical education required programs.
Date: May 1959
Creator: Spence, Dale William
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Rorsach as an Indicator of Intelligence in Seventh-Grade Children (open access)

The Rorsach as an Indicator of Intelligence in Seventh-Grade Children

This study was undertaken in the belief that a greater relationship would be revealed between the Rorschach and intelligence test scores if the factors in the Rorschach which have been found in the past to be related to intelligence could be compared as a whole with scores obtained on mental tests. The purpose of this study was to determine whether it could be demonstrated that a higher degree of relationship does exist between several of the Rorschach factors, considered as a whole, and intelligence as revealed by the California Test of Mental Maturity.
Date: June 1959
Creator: Wolf, Martin G.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of Health Programs in Texas High Schools of 50 to 500 Enrollment (open access)

A Survey of Health Programs in Texas High Schools of 50 to 500 Enrollment

The purposes of this study are: (1) to provide a history of school health programs; (2) to secure from authorities in the field an idea of what constitutes a good school health program; (3) to examine present programs in Texas Public High Schools of 50 to 500 enrollment in order to determine the nature of activities being carried on; (4) to show how programs are organized, administered, and financed; and (5) to point out existing deficiencies and to offer recommendations for improving present programs based upon the most successful and outstanding patterns.
Date: June 1959
Creator: Brown, Jimmy Dillon
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Utilization of Industrial Arts Personnel and Equipment for School Maintenance in Texas Secondary Schools (open access)

The Utilization of Industrial Arts Personnel and Equipment for School Maintenance in Texas Secondary Schools

This is a study of the utilization of industrial arts personnel and equipment for school maintenance in Texas secondary schools.
Date: August 1959
Creator: Clement, Billy Guy
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Juvenile Delinquency in Erath County, Texas, January 1, 1938, Through December 31, 1958 (open access)

A Study of Juvenile Delinquency in Erath County, Texas, January 1, 1938, Through December 31, 1958

The object of this study was to find out what pattern juvenile delinquency follows in small towns and rural areas.
Date: August 1959
Creator: Isbell, Phoebe B.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 11, Number 9, May 1959 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 11, Number 9, May 1959

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community. Published monthly during long academic semesters.
Date: May 1959
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 12, Number 1, September 1959 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 12, Number 1, September 1959

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community. Published monthly during long academic semesters.
Date: September 1959
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 12, Number 2, October 1959 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 12, Number 2, October 1959

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community. Published monthly during long academic semesters.
Date: October 1959
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 12, Number 3, November 1959 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 12, Number 3, November 1959

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community. Published monthly during long academic semesters. This issue includes program information for the regional meeting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Date: November 1959
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 12, Number 4, December 1959 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 12, Number 4, December 1959

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community. Published monthly during long academic semesters.
Date: December 1959
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 11, Number 5, January 1959 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 11, Number 5, January 1959

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community. Published monthly during long academic semesters.
Date: January 1959
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 11, Number 6, February 1959 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 11, Number 6, February 1959

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community. Published monthly during long academic semesters.
Date: February 1959
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 11, Number 7, March 1959 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 11, Number 7, March 1959

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community. Published monthly during long academic semesters.
Date: March 1959
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library