A Study of Juvenile Delinquency in Montague County, Texas, During 1947-1948 (open access)

A Study of Juvenile Delinquency in Montague County, Texas, During 1947-1948

The problem of this study was to analyze the following five factors related to juvenile delinquency in Montague County, Texas, during 1947 and 1948: first, causes and control of juvenile delinquency; second, personal data about thirty-three juvenile offenders; third, their offenses; fourth, disposition made of the charges by the judge of the juvenile court; and fifth, the present behavior status of the offenders.
Date: August 1949
Creator: Lauderdale, Virginia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Children's Reading Interests as Shown by the Books Checked from the Huey School Library in Wichita Falls, Texas, and the Relation of These Interests to Classroom Work (open access)

Children's Reading Interests as Shown by the Books Checked from the Huey School Library in Wichita Falls, Texas, and the Relation of These Interests to Classroom Work

This study has four main purposes: 1. To determine whether there is a preference for certain types of stories. 2. To find whether boys prefer one type story and girls another. 3. To determine whether the physical make-up or format of the book has any influence on the selection of books. 4. To find how these interests are related to classroom work.
Date: 1949
Creator: Latimer, Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Microflora Found in a Selected Group of Food Products Enclosed in a Protective Wrapper (open access)

Microflora Found in a Selected Group of Food Products Enclosed in a Protective Wrapper

The purposes of this study are, first, to determine relative numbers and predominant types of bacterial organisms in the various food products studied; second, to evaluate the efficiency of the paper coverings of these foods; and third, to determine whether these products are potential sources of food poisoning.
Date: 1949
Creator: Ogden, William H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Measurement of Existing Health Conditions in Princeton Public School in Terms of Desirable Conditions for Promoting Health Services (open access)

A Measurement of Existing Health Conditions in Princeton Public School in Terms of Desirable Conditions for Promoting Health Services

The purpose of this study is to determine the status of existing health conditions in Princeton Public School and to set up a recognized desirable health standard for promoting health services.
Date: 1949
Creator: Patterson, Angileen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship Between Intelligence as Determined by the California Test of Mental Maturity and Achievement in the Seventh Grade (open access)

Relationship Between Intelligence as Determined by the California Test of Mental Maturity and Achievement in the Seventh Grade

The problem of this study was to find ways of improving and enriching the curriculum through the use of the intelligence quotients obtained from the California Test of Mental Maturity. To reveal some of the needs of the curriculum and also to reveal the possibilities and limitations of testing for intelligence, statistical relationships between intelligence quotients and academic achievement as measured by both teacher marks and achievement tests were determined.
Date: 1949
Creator: Purvis, L. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Antibiocity of the Oleoresins of One Hundred Texas Spermatophytes upon Twenty Gram-Positive Bacterial Organisms (open access)

Antibiocity of the Oleoresins of One Hundred Texas Spermatophytes upon Twenty Gram-Positive Bacterial Organisms

This investigation is concerned with the testing, in vitro, of oleoresins from one hundred higher plants common to North and South Central Texas. The plants used were selected in order to obtain a representative collection which might be of value in future research.
Date: 1949
Creator: Richardson, Lavon P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine the Adequacy of the Gilmer-Aikin Law and the Flathman Formula in Determining the Cost of Pupil Transporation in Texas (open access)

To Determine the Adequacy of the Gilmer-Aikin Law and the Flathman Formula in Determining the Cost of Pupil Transporation in Texas

The problem of this study is to determine the adequacy of the Gilmer-Aikin Law and the Flathman Formula in determining the cost of pupil transportation in Texas.
Date: 1949
Creator: Roper, Tyra Jesse
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Isolation and Identification of Micro-Organisms from Spoons of Public Eating Establishments in Denton, Texas (open access)

The Isolation and Identification of Micro-Organisms from Spoons of Public Eating Establishments in Denton, Texas

This investigation deals with the isolation and identification of bacteria found on selected samples of spoons in various eating establishments in the vicinity of Denton, Texas.
Date: 1949
Creator: Rugeley, Sarah Rose
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of the School Plant of Arlington Heights High School of Fort Worth, Texas, as Related to Health and Safety Environment of the School Population with Recommendations for Future Improvements from 1949 (open access)

Evaluation of the School Plant of Arlington Heights High School of Fort Worth, Texas, as Related to Health and Safety Environment of the School Population with Recommendations for Future Improvements from 1949

The writer of this thesis was assigned to teach in this community and as a result became interested in the rating of the school plant, and to realize further ambition, made the following study using as an instrument of measurement the evaluative criteria set up by the Cooperative Study of Secondary School Standards, Section K.
Date: 1949
Creator: Ruggieri, Nick
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organization and Administration of a Youth Center (open access)

Organization and Administration of a Youth Center

The purpose of the study is to make an investigation of the need for youth centers, the factors which are necessary for the successful operation of a youth center, and to evaluate the youth center at Denton, Texas, in the light of the information developed in the research.
Date: 1949
Creator: Seely, Arthur J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dairy Industry and the Texas Antitrust Laws (open access)

The Dairy Industry and the Texas Antitrust Laws

The general problem to be dealt with in this thesis is that of determining whether the antitrust laws of the state of Texas fulfill their aim of maintaining competition through the prosecution of conspiracies in restraint of trade. The specific problem is the determination of the effect of the antitrust laws on the dairy industry in Texas.
Date: 1949
Creator: Self, Stanley Allen
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Possibilities of the Use of Visual Aids in Social Studies in the Intermediate Grades in the Denton Public Schools (open access)

The Possibilities of the Use of Visual Aids in Social Studies in the Intermediate Grades in the Denton Public Schools

The purpose of this study is to determine the possibilities of visual aids as an aid to the learning process in the social studies of the intermediate grades of the Denton public schools, with particular emphasis on the moving picture films and film strips available for use as visual aids in the social studies subjects.
Date: 1949
Creator: Sauls, Olga Borth
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Class A and Class AA Football Coaches of Districts One through Sixteen of the University Interscholastic League (open access)

A Comparative Study of Class A and Class AA Football Coaches of Districts One through Sixteen of the University Interscholastic League

The purpose of this study is to present comparative analyses relating to personal and professional differences and similarities among football coaches in Class A and Class AA high schools of Texas.
Date: 1949
Creator: Sheffield, William Polk
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Teacher Ratings Assigned Girls and Boys (open access)

A Comparative Study of Teacher Ratings Assigned Girls and Boys

It is the purpose of this study to determine if there is any significant difference in teacher ratings of boys and girls of equal achievement. If such differences are found to exist, an attempt will be made to explain the causes for such differences.
Date: 1949
Creator: Ussery, Sadie Maxine
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Bacterial Flora of Food Utensils in Hardin College Cafeteria and Twenty-Five Eating Establishments in Wichita Falls, Texas (open access)

A Study of the Bacterial Flora of Food Utensils in Hardin College Cafeteria and Twenty-Five Eating Establishments in Wichita Falls, Texas

The problem of this thesis consists primarily of a bacteriological survey of the eating utensils of Hardin College Cafeteria and twenty-five other eating establishments in the city of Wichita Falls, Texas. This investigation was made primarily with reference to a determination of the possible presence of typhoid and related organisms, and secondarily to an investigation of the actual presence of those bacterial organisms associated with the more common outbreaks of food poisoning.
Date: 1949
Creator: Adams, Isaac Newton
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Value of Filmstrips in the First Grade of Travis School, Mineral Wells, Texas (open access)

The Value of Filmstrips in the First Grade of Travis School, Mineral Wells, Texas

The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of filmstrips upon a group of first-grade pupils as compared to another group of first-grade pupils not using filmstrips.
Date: 1949
Creator: Baker, Alene Ellis
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Public-Relations Practices of One Hundred Texas Public-School Systems (open access)

An Analysis of the Public-Relations Practices of One Hundred Texas Public-School Systems

The purpose of this study has three aspects. These are, (1) to determine what constitutes sound public-relations practices as recommended by recognized authorities in this field; (2) to determine the extent to which certain public-relations practices are employed by one hundred Texas public school systems; and (3) to determine whether the public-relations programs of one hundred Texas public-school systems meet the requirements of a sound public-relations program.
Date: 1949
Creator: Baker, Garth Elmo
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Methods of Reporting Child Progess to Parents (open access)

A Comparative Study of Methods of Reporting Child Progess to Parents

The problem involved in this study is to determine the progress in the last decade of a representative number of elementary schools of Texas in their methods of reporting child growth to parents.
Date: 1949
Creator: Boswell, Orgle M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey to Determine the Relationshiops of Certain Factors to Success in Elementary College Accounting at North Texas State College (open access)

A Survey to Determine the Relationshiops of Certain Factors to Success in Elementary College Accounting at North Texas State College

In this study an effort is made to determine how certain factors are related to success in elementary college accounting at North Texas State College. The factors which are considered are: grades made in high school bookkeeping, size of high school attended, sex, age, military service, marital status, intelligence, college classification of the student, and high school bookkeeping credit earned by the student.
Date: 1949
Creator: Brooks, Paul A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Examine Individual Failure at the Elementary Level in a Small Texas Community, and to Determine, if Possible, the Relative Importance of Emotional Disturbance and Other Factors as Causes of Such Failures (open access)

A Study to Examine Individual Failure at the Elementary Level in a Small Texas Community, and to Determine, if Possible, the Relative Importance of Emotional Disturbance and Other Factors as Causes of Such Failures

The purpose of this study was to examine the complete number of failures for the school year, 1948-1949, in the elementary school of a small Texas town in an effort to determine the relative weight of emotional maladjustment and other factors as causes of such failures; and, if possible, to advance suggested remedies for such failures.
Date: 1949
Creator: Browning, Alta Edwards
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine the Soundness of the Gilmer-Aikin Plan of Financing the Public Schools of Montague County, Texas (open access)

A Study to Determine the Soundness of the Gilmer-Aikin Plan of Financing the Public Schools of Montague County, Texas

The problem of this thesis is to examine the Gilmer-Aikin plan as it will affect the Montague County, Texas, schools in order to ascertain whether present inequities, if any, will be corrected, and to present additional remedial proposals if needed.
Date: 1949
Creator: Browning, Leslie L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Casual-Factor-Removal as a Technique of Combating Juvenile Delinquency in the Cleburne Public Schools (open access)

Casual-Factor-Removal as a Technique of Combating Juvenile Delinquency in the Cleburne Public Schools

The purpose of this study is two-fold: (1) to determine the casual factors of delinquency which are the responsibility of the school, and (2) to discover possible procedures for combating delinquency, so far as it is immediately possible, in the Cleburne Public School System.
Date: 1949
Creator: Spikes, Pauline
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relation of Mental Hygiene to the Reading Achievement of the First-Grade Child (open access)

The Relation of Mental Hygiene to the Reading Achievement of the First-Grade Child

The purpose of the study is to determine what degree of relationship exists between factors of mental hygiene and of reading achievement of the first-grade child.
Date: 1949
Creator: Sprinkle, Mary Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine the Adequacy of the Physical Education, Health, and Recreation Facilties of the Schools of Kaufman County, Texas (open access)

To Determine the Adequacy of the Physical Education, Health, and Recreation Facilties of the Schools of Kaufman County, Texas

The purpose of this study is to determine how adequately the schools of Kaufman County are conforming to certain standards in physical education, health, and recreation.
Date: 1949
Creator: Stanford, William Y.
System: The UNT Digital Library