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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
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
An Evaluation of the Big Spring, Texas, Elementary Schools
The problem of study is a critical evaluation of the Big Spring, Texas, Elementary Schools using The Handbook for Self-appraisal and Improvement of Elementary Schools published in September, 1945, under the direction of Edgar Ellen Wilson, Director of Elementary Education in Texas. The parts in this evaluation under consideration are the children, the teacher, and the program of school life, eliminating the other headings under which a school may be placed.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Burnam, Ruth Arnold
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Russian Armed Forces
This thesis is an examination of the Russian Armed Forces from the time of Peter the Great in the eighteenth century to the Red Army of the present.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Burns, Orren
System:
The UNT Digital Library
To Revise the Program of Playground Activities for Grades One, Two, and Three for Rosemont Elementary School of Dallas, Texas, Based on the Evaluation of Twenty-Nine Playground Teachers and on the Game Choices of 750 Third-Grade Children of the Dallas City Schools
The purpose of this study was to collect and tabulate material which would be embodied in a revised course of study for the playground activities for grades one, two, and three of the elementary schools of Dallas, Texas.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Cannon, Ola Fae Johnson
System:
The UNT Digital Library
History of Public Welfare Legislation in Texas
Includes summaries of legislation from 1856 to 1949 regarding the blind, deaf and dumb, the mentally deranged, child welfare, the physically ill, and the aged. Also includes histories of schools and institutions established, including Deaf and Blind institute for Colored youths, State Lunatic Asylum, Epileptic Colony, Insane Asylum for Negroes, State Juvenile Training School, The State Orphan's home.
Date:
August 1949
Creator:
Cathey, Velma Lee
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Repetitions in the Most Popular Works of Mark Twain
This paper is a study of the repetitions in the works of Mark Twain.The author has chosen repetitions which are most nearly alike and most representative of Mark Twain. The study was limited to repetitions of his own experiences repeated in his works, to repetitions of descriptions of the beautiful and the horrible, and to repetitions which are a result of his humor and a desire to save man from himself.
Date:
August 1949
Creator:
Chambers, Nettie Jackson
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of the State-Adopted Readers for First and Second Grades for their Literary Qualities
The purpose of this study is to make a thorough investigation of the state-adopted readers for the first and second grades to determine if they have literary qualities that would encourage the reading and appreciation of good literature.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Childers, Daisy Edith
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Relationships Between Sociometric Scores and Personality Self-Ratings
There is at present no way to tell what the correlations between personality self-rating scores and sociometric scores. One might suppose, as a rule of thumb, that such a correlation would be higher than .50 in most groups. This relationship, between sociometric scores and scores on personality self-rating scales, is the subject under investigation in the present study.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Christy, William J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Waste of Human Resources in Education
The problem of this study is the non-utilization of human resources in the educational system, with concrete emphasis on the relationships between the value of human beings and the waste of human resources.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Clotiaux, LeRoy Jean
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Certain Factors Related to the Freedom of Teaching in Texas
The purpose of this study is to make an analysis of certain factors as they are related to freedom of teaching in Texas. This study will include community relations as well as the conditions within the classroom, as for example, the freedom in discussing controversial ideas.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Cokendolpher, Floyd W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Crude Fiber and Laxation of Young College Women on Self-Selected Diets
The purpose of this study is to determine the amount of crude fiber in the diet and the laxation rate of college women consuming self-selected diets.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Collier, Charlotte Collins
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Attempted Synthesis of some Heterocyclic Sulfones
This thesis describes two experiments: one related to antihistamines, and the other related to antitubercular compounds.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Compton, William David
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine some Means of Strengthening the Already Established Program of Home and Family Life Education with Adults in the Dallas Independent Schools
The purpose of this study is to determine some means of strengthening the already established program of Home and Family Life Education with adults in the Dallas Independent Schools, Dallas, Texas.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Conner, Thelma R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of the Growth and Development of Extra-Curricular Activities in Woodrow Wilson High School 1929-1949
This study of the extra-curricular activities of the Woodrow Wilson High School of Dallas, Texas, was made to determine who and why each of the activities developed, the life span of each, the percentage of the student body enrolled in the various groups, and the value of each extra-curricular activity from the viewpoint of the teachers, of the students, and of authorities in the field.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Cooper, Edith Roberts
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Development of Basic Industries and Railroads in Russia to 1932
Russia's position as one of the two greatest powers in the world of today is generally known. Industrial development, on of the factors that has played the major role in raising her to this position, is too often slighted in studies in favor of political and social matters. Her industrial development is unparalleled; it is completely single and unique. Because of all these factors the writer has endeavored to trace the development of Russia's basic industries and railroads up to 1932.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Cottrelle, Jesse Stephen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Apparent Relationship between Classroom Behavior Problems and the Emotional Stability of Twenty-Five Second Grade Children in the Sam Houston Elementary School, Denton, Texas
The problem of this study was to determine the apparent relationship between classroom behavior problems and the emotional stability of twenty-five pupils in the second grade of the Sam Houston Elementary School, Denton, Texas.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Crain, Ruth Seat
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Songs of Ravel
This study examines the history of the French solo, Ravel's influences,and the characteristics and relationships of his own music.
Date:
August 1949
Creator:
Crump, Grace Camille
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Wife and Family Finance
The problem for this study consists of determining what a wife should know about family finances in order to share the burden of family living with her husband and for protection against the probability she may be left with all the responsibilities and decisions.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Curry, Mary K.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Antibacterial Effect of the Oleoresins of One Hundred Common Texas Plants upon Twenty-Five Gram-Negative Mirco-Organisms
This investigation deals with the study of the possible antibiotic effect of oleoresins of one hundred common Texas plants upon twenty-five gram-negative bacterial organisms.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Danhof, Ivan E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Change in Group Responsibility in the Second Grade as a Result of Concerted Effort
The problem under consideration is to determine the changes in group responsibility in a second grade as a result of concerted effort. The concerted efforts made in this experiment were telling, reading, and dramatizing stories, poems, and songs of responsibility; discussing of stories, poems, songs, and filmstrips of responsibility; the assigning of definite classroom responsibility; and the assigning of definite study responsibility. This study attempts to answer the question, how much change, positive or negative, will occur in group responsibility as a result of the above-mentioned efforts?
Date:
1949
Creator:
Daniel, Wilma Thomas
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Relationship of Children's Attitudes toward Some Social Problems and Personality Adjustment
The problem chosen for investigation was to attempt to determine the relationship of children's attitude toward some social problems and their personality adjustment.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Darnall, Julia Josephine
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Investigation of Some Properties of the Gamma Function
The purpose of this paper is to prove the existence of the Gamma function and to give some other properties of the function.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Darnell, Billy R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Sound Visual Education Program for a Small High School
The problem of this investigation has but one objective. The writer will attempt to determine a sound visual education program for a small high school.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Davis, Dale Bryant
System:
The UNT Digital Library