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
Evaluation of the Public-Relations Program of Bowie Public Schools for Two Years (open access)

Evaluation of the Public-Relations Program of Bowie Public Schools for Two Years

The purpose of this study is to make a survey over a period of two complete school terms of the public-relations program of Bowie Public Schools, Bowie, Montague County, Texas.
Date: 1945
Creator: Taliaferro, J. Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Incidence of Escherichia Coli and other Coliform Organisms on Seventy-One Samples of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Purchased from Eight Grocery Stores in Denton, Texas (open access)

The Incidence of Escherichia Coli and other Coliform Organisms on Seventy-One Samples of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Purchased from Eight Grocery Stores in Denton, Texas

This investigation has for its aim the explanation of the incidence of colon bacteria on a number of food samples purchased in grocery stores of Denton, Texas, by an analysis of correlative sanitary factors.
Date: 1945
Creator: Scoggin, Frances Grammar
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Preliminary Investigation of the Effects of Various Fertilizers on Plankton and Fish Production in Small Texas Ponds (open access)

A Preliminary Investigation of the Effects of Various Fertilizers on Plankton and Fish Production in Small Texas Ponds

This problem was undertaken to determine a suitable combination of fertilizers that would increase the food in a lake, resulting in increased yield of bass and crappie.
Date: 1945
Creator: Sivells, Howard Carroll
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Shifting in the Sources of Earnings of Banks since 1935 (open access)

The Shifting in the Sources of Earnings of Banks since 1935

This thesis is proposed and the study is made from a firm conviction that for the United States the system of private enterprise is the one that best suits our national temperament and our great abilities.
Date: 1945
Creator: Peel, Sara Eunice
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship Between Mental Ability and Reading Achievement (open access)

The Relationship Between Mental Ability and Reading Achievement

The purpose of this study is to determine, by actual classroom experiment, the relationship between mental ability and reading achievement; and to ascertain the best methods of increasing reading ability. A secondary purpose in connection with this study was the critical evaluation of a testing program.
Date: 1945
Creator: Primm, Jewel van Landingham
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
Ten Assembly Programs for Intermediate Grades Designed to Further the Understanding of Mexican Culture in our Schools (open access)

Ten Assembly Programs for Intermediate Grades Designed to Further the Understanding of Mexican Culture in our Schools

It shall be the purpose of the writer to prepare program material appropriate for school use which will interest, instruct and contribute toward mutual understanding of both the Latin-American and Anglo-American child. This program material has been incorporated into ten musical plays, the themes, dances and songs of which have been gleaned from a great amount of reading material, stories related by Mexican people, legends told by pioneer Anglo residents of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and ideas that have been presented by students. It is the purpose of the writer to organize this material into plays which may be of service to any teacher who intends to present a program, in the intermediate grades, dealing with some phase of Latin and Anglo-American relations.
Date: August 1945
Creator: Gross, Marjorie Clark
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental Investigation of the Relation Between Intelligence Quotients, English Scores, Reading Scores, and English Marks at N.T.S.T.C.; and a Suggestion for the Use of These Instruments in Predicting Academic Success in English (open access)

Experimental Investigation of the Relation Between Intelligence Quotients, English Scores, Reading Scores, and English Marks at N.T.S.T.C.; and a Suggestion for the Use of These Instruments in Predicting Academic Success in English

"The problem here is to determine the scholastic prediction in English at the college freshman level by means of the correlation coefficients of the following test scores and marks at North Texas State Teachers College..."--1.
Date: August 1945
Creator: Phillips, Annie Pearl
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Experimental Treatment of Inaccurate Singers in the Intermediate Grades (open access)

An Experimental Treatment of Inaccurate Singers in the Intermediate Grades

A study of the causes and remedial treatment of inaccurate singing through experimentation and research was chosen by the writer as a practical problem urgently in need of solution.
Date: August 1945
Creator: Allen, Sheila Emery
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Effects of the War Upon the Mathematics Curriculum and the Motivating Forces at Work as Reflected in the Dallas City Schools (open access)

Some Effects of the War Upon the Mathematics Curriculum and the Motivating Forces at Work as Reflected in the Dallas City Schools

"To discuss the effect all this war activity has had upon the Dallas Schools and to voice a protest against those who seek to discredit mathematics and at the same time to contribute a readable thesis upon the subject is largely the purpose of this study." --leaf 2
Date: August 1945
Creator: Smith, R. N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A History of the Cooke County Library, Gainesville, Texas (open access)

A History of the Cooke County Library, Gainesville, Texas

"...a brief though fairly detailed, history of the Cooke County Library and it is hoped that this material will be of interest to friends of the library and that it will serve, not only as a history of its establishment and maintenance, but that it will also be an inspiration for future achievements...The facts herein were taken from newspapers, professional journals, notes kept by the late Lillian Gunter, the records of the Cooke County Library, and by word of mouth from citizens of Gainesville, Texas who helped in the establishment of the library."--leaf 1.
Date: May 1945
Creator: Self, Hazel
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Improvement of Musically Deficient Children at the Elementary Level in the East Van Zandt School, Fort Worth, Texas (open access)

The Improvement of Musically Deficient Children at the Elementary Level in the East Van Zandt School, Fort Worth, Texas

The presence of musically deficient children in the music classes of elementary public schools is a well-known and a widespread situation. The problem of this study was to determine which of two methods of giving special attention to such pupils would be the more successful in assisting them to improve musically.
Date: August 1945
Creator: Montgomery, Willie Fayette
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Juvenile Delinquency in Stephens County, Texas (open access)

A Study of Juvenile Delinquency in Stephens County, Texas

The purpose of this study is to try to determine some of the leading causes of juvenile delinquency in Stephens County so as to recommend methods of prevention and treatment.
Date: August 1945
Creator: Tatum, Leonard Roy
System: The UNT Digital Library