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A Suggested Course in Consumer Education for Secondary Schools Based on Data Taken from Certain Textbooks and Courses of Study (open access)

A Suggested Course in Consumer Education for Secondary Schools Based on Data Taken from Certain Textbooks and Courses of Study

This study was undertaken as an investigation into the content of the high school course in consumer education that is included in certain course outlines and textbooks, and also an investigation of the general nature of the course in consumer education as it is now being taught in high school.
Date: 1940
Creator: Belew, Ruby
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of the Children's Magazines Published in America during the Nineteenth Century (open access)

A Survey of the Children's Magazines Published in America during the Nineteenth Century

It is the purpose of this work to compile and organize available material dealing with children's magazines published in the nineteenth century in America, and present it in a usable form.
Date: 1940
Creator: Wells, Epsa Louise
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of the Educational, Vocational, and Social Rehabilitation Efforts for the Blind in the United States (open access)

A Survey of the Educational, Vocational, and Social Rehabilitation Efforts for the Blind in the United States

Defines blindness and discusses the advances made in recent history to help blind people participate more actively in society. Specific emphasis on education and vocational rehabilitation.
Date: 1940
Creator: Bass, Charles A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of the Programs of Health and Physical Education for Girls in the Senior High Schools of District 4 of the Texas State Teachers Association (open access)

A Survey of the Programs of Health and Physical Education for Girls in the Senior High Schools of District 4 of the Texas State Teachers Association

The purpose of this study was to make a survey of the programs of health and physical education for girls in the senior high schools of District 4 of the Texas State Teachers Association. The writer sought to determine the status of health and physical education for girls in this district as compared to the program outlined in the "Tentative Course of Study for Health, Physical Education, and Safety," published by the State Department of Education.
Date: 1940
Creator: Smith, Lola Ethel
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine the Effect that a Course in Design has on Skill in Judging Structural and Decorative Design (open access)

To Determine the Effect that a Course in Design has on Skill in Judging Structural and Decorative Design

The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not courses in design have better equipped prospective teachers of industrial arts to recognize good design as applied to woodworking projects.
Date: 1940
Creator: Ferguson, Charles C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine the Physical Activity Interests of the Junior High School Boys of Amarillo, Texas, to be Used as a Basis for a Physical Education Program (open access)

To Determine the Physical Activity Interests of the Junior High School Boys of Amarillo, Texas, to be Used as a Basis for a Physical Education Program

The purpose of this study was to make an analysis of the physical activity interests of the junior high school boys of Amarillo, Texas, in order better to determine the content of the physical education program based on the physical activities in which boys indicated they were interested.
Date: 1940
Creator: Cearley, Jess E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Develop and to Evaluate a Functional Home Room Program for Citizenship Training (open access)

To Develop and to Evaluate a Functional Home Room Program for Citizenship Training

The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate a functional home room citizenship program; to determine the changes to be made in one school year in the civic attitudes of a given group through an especially arranged curriculum.
Date: 1940
Creator: Robinson, Edra
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Value of the Critical Angle Board in Diagnosing Handedness (open access)

The Value of the Critical Angle Board in Diagnosing Handedness

The present study addresses some of the problems in human handedness studies by noting the manual choices of one hundred twenty elementary pupils in the first through fifth grades. It discusses the value of the Van Riper critical angle board, the correlation indices of handedness based upon different types of activities, and the divergence with respect to degree and pattern of hand preference in the children.
Date: 1940
Creator: Cooper, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Vegetation and Habitat Factors of Rockwall County, Texas (open access)

The Vegetation and Habitat Factors of Rockwall County, Texas

This paper consists of a study of the soils and vegetation found in Rockwall County, Texas. This county is located in the northeastern part of the state. Rockwall County lies in the northeastern part of the Black Waxy Belt of the Coastal Plains province.
Date: 1940
Creator: Smith, W. Desby
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vitamin A Administration and Dark Adaption of Second and Third Grade Children (open access)

Vitamin A Administration and Dark Adaption of Second and Third Grade Children

This study was formulated for the following purposes: (1) To determine if a learning factor is involved when repeated tests are made with a dark adaption instrument, (2) To determine if the dark adaption of a group of second and third grade children showing poor dark adaption can be improved by the daily administration of Haliver oil capsules, (3) To obtain a dark adaption curve for two hundred twenty-three grade children of Denton, Texas.
Date: 1940
Creator: Silk, Maurice Raper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Weatherford Municipal Light and Power Plant (open access)

The Weatherford Municipal Light and Power Plant

This thesis is a study of the Weatherford Municipal Light and Power Plant. An attempt has been made to trace the history of electric service in Weatherford, Texas, and to reveal why this present, and previous, service has culminated in a municipally owned system.
Date: 1940
Creator: Shumaker, Charles S.
System: The UNT Digital Library