Home Mechanics in Industrial Arts for High School Girls (open access)

Home Mechanics in Industrial Arts for High School Girls

The purpose of this study is to ascertain the extent to which industrial arts is offering home mechanics to girls and there by determine the extent of coordination of this phase of industrial arts for girls with home economics.
Date: May 1937
Creator: Rohrer, Alice Brooks
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Money Spent by Certain Boarding Houses Patronized by Men and Women of the North Texas State Teachers College (open access)

An Analysis of Money Spent by Certain Boarding Houses Patronized by Men and Women of the North Texas State Teachers College

1. A study was made of the food habits of college students. 2. Nine women's and five men's boarding houses contributed data over a period of 15 to 84 consecutive days regarding food purchases and the number served. 3. The individual houses reported from 24 to 323 students fed daily. 4. In no case was the food expenditure for fruits and vegetables less than 20 per cent, the range being 21 to 38 per cent. 5. The money spent for milk and milk products was greater for the men's houses than for the women's; five of the eight women's houses exceeded the 20 per cent mark while two of the five men's houses exceeded it. 6. The portion of the food dollar spent for meat, fish, eggs, and poultry on the whole was high, the range being 18 to 40 per cent. 7. None of the houses spent a fifth of the food expenditure for bread and cereals, the range being 4 to 14 per cent. 8. The large amount of money spent by women's houses for oleomargarine tended to increase the proportion of the food dollar spent for adjuncts. Two of the men's houses reported no money spent for …
Date: August 1939
Creator: Fenn, Edna
System: The UNT Digital Library
A study of Certain Aspects of the Development of the Home Economics Program of the Teachers College High School of the North Texas State Teachers College (open access)

A study of Certain Aspects of the Development of the Home Economics Program of the Teachers College High School of the North Texas State Teachers College

The purpose of this study is to present the development of the home economics program of the Teachers College High School from its beginning to the present time of the thesis. It aims to show the type and number of of courses offered, the number of and classification of students enrolled, and what provision was made for the supervision of instruction in these classes. The main body of the thesis is composed of five chapters, which may be outlined in the following manner. Chapter II is a historical sketch of the Teachers College High School. It tells the story of the founding of the parent institution, its development into a teacher's college, and the establishment of a demonstration school as a teacher-training laboratory for college students. Chapter III of the study traces the course offerings in the high school from 1909 to 1939. In this connection, the nature and number of the courses offered are discussed and attention is given to the development of various new phases of the work. Table I shows the development. Chapter IV deals with some aspects of the enrollment of the high school students in the home economics courses. Chapter V of the thesis deals …
Date: August 1939
Creator: Smith, Nora Olive
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Grooming Problems of the High School Girl (open access)

An Analysis of Grooming Problems of the High School Girl

The purpose of this study is to analyze the grooming problems of high school girls in Oakwood High School, and to compare the grooming problems of girls who have had a clothing course in Home Economics to those who have not.
Date: 1940
Creator: Burks, Jasmine Rudd
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dark Adaptation of Second and Third Grade Children (open access)

Dark Adaptation of Second and Third Grade Children

The purpose of the study is to determine the dark adaptation of second grade children in Denton, Texas.
Date: 1940
Creator: Rohrer, Lois Young
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Use of the Playback in Consumer Education (open access)

A Study of the Use of the Playback in Consumer Education

The purpose of this study is to consider the playback as a consumer educational material, and to test its usefulness in transmitting and securing acceptance of consumer information when presented to selected groups of individuals. Another purpose of the study is to make a contribution to the sum total of results obtained by the Institute for Consumer Education in its experimentation with the playback.
Date: 1940
Creator: Amos, Charlcie N.
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
Selection of Ready-to-Wear Dresses by Women in Denver City, Texas (open access)

Selection of Ready-to-Wear Dresses by Women in Denver City, Texas

"The purpose of the present study is to observe how the consumers select ready-to-wear dresses in a small oil town, which had a population of 3,336 in June, 1940...A brief summary of the entire study follows. (1) Of the 215 customers, 60 percent were sales customers and 60 percent stated the price they wished to pay. (2) The 135 dresses purchased were about equally distributed among $7.95, $10.95,$16.95 and $29.95 values. (3) The color desired was specified by 83 percent of the customers. Navy and tan were the two leading colors. (4) While 97 percent of the women designated the size they needed, only 83 percent purchased the size requested. Size 16 was bought by more women than any other size. (5) Customers had little knowledge regarding trade names and materials. Of the dresses sold, 64 percent were rayon. (6) About 90 percent of the women designated in some manner the type of dress they desired. Almost 50 percent of the purchasers selected tailored garments. (7) Slightly less than half of the customers check on the quality of workmanship or the material in the dress. Only 15 percent of the women asked for a guarantee of any type. (8) Ten …
Date: August 1940
Creator: Smith, Texie Addington
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Determination of the Vitamin A Content of the Dehydrated Sweet Potato Made from Stored Sweet Potatoes (open access)

The Determination of the Vitamin A Content of the Dehydrated Sweet Potato Made from Stored Sweet Potatoes

The purpose of this present study is to determine the amount of vitamin A in the dehydrated sweet potato made from the yellow Puerto Rico variety grown in Texas by using a reference oil.
Date: 1941
Creator: Dozier, Vera
System: The UNT Digital Library
Further Studies on the Dark Adaptation of Elementary School Children (open access)

Further Studies on the Dark Adaptation of Elementary School Children

The present study is part of a long time cooperative study of the Education and Home Economics Departments of North Texas State Teachers College begun in 1940. The purpose is to compare the dark adaptations of second and third grade children made in 1940 with those made in 1941, and to determine also the dark adaptation of a group of fifth and sixth grade children receiving vitamin A concentrate.
Date: 1941
Creator: Gary, Lois W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Losses of Vitamin C Content During the Cooking of Summer Squash (open access)

Losses of Vitamin C Content During the Cooking of Summer Squash

The general food supply is usually the source of vitamin C for many people, and since squash is a common food in the popular diets of Texans and is so generally grown over the state, this study has a two-fold purpose: (1) to ascertain the amount of vitamin C in the two varieties of squash most commonly used as food in Texas, and (2) to determine the effect of various methods of cooking upon the vitamin C content of these two varieties of squash.
Date: 1941
Creator: Woodruff, Reba N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Dark Adaption of Freshman High School Girls and Boys (open access)

A Study of Dark Adaption of Freshman High School Girls and Boys

The children in this study were tested in their normal environment and without any effort to change this environment. It was felt that only through such an experiment could any evidence be gained regarding the influence of climatic conditions on the dark adaption of adolescents.
Date: 1941
Creator: Williams, Ollie Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Housing Conditions of 108 Farm Families in the Wellman Consolidated Independent School District of Wellman, Texas (open access)

A Study of Housing Conditions of 108 Farm Families in the Wellman Consolidated Independent School District of Wellman, Texas

The purpose of this study was to obtain a better understanding of housing conditions of the 108 occupied rural homes in the school district known as Wellman Consolidated Independent School District, which is located in Terry County in West Texas.
Date: 1941
Creator: McWhirter, Velma
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Three Months' Study of the Dark Adaptation of a Texas Family During Activity (open access)

A Three Months' Study of the Dark Adaptation of a Texas Family During Activity

Recent studies have offered an abundance of evidence which indicates that night blindness is caused by vitamin A deficiency. Both adults and children have been used to investigate the relationship between vitamin A deficiency and night blindness.
Date: 1941
Creator: Wade, Alice Mays
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of the Bio-Photometer in Determining the Dark Adaptation of Pre-School Age Children (open access)

The Use of the Bio-Photometer in Determining the Dark Adaptation of Pre-School Age Children

Because of the paucity of evidence with regard to dark adaptation and the vitamin A status of pre-school children, this study is made. The purpose, therefore, is to add to the available data on this subject through an investigation of the bio-photometer as a means of detecting vitamin A deficiency in pre-school children.
Date: 1941
Creator: Wright, Mary Lou McCauley
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Vitamin A Content of Dehydrated Sweet Potato Made from the Freshly Harvested Puerto Rico Variety (open access)

The Vitamin A Content of Dehydrated Sweet Potato Made from the Freshly Harvested Puerto Rico Variety

The purpose of this study was to determine by biological method of assay the vitamin A content of Puerto Rico sweet potatoes which were dehydrated immediately after harvesting.
Date: 1941
Creator: James, Catherine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biological Assay of Vitamin A of Certain Texas Foods (open access)

Biological Assay of Vitamin A of Certain Texas Foods

The purpose of the present study was to compare the amounts of vitamin A in sweet potato flour with that of carrot flour and dehydrated carrots by using the biological assay method.
Date: 1942
Creator: Ballew, Jewell Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Nutritive Study of the Growth-Promoting Factors of Four Varieties of Cowpeas (open access)

A Comparative Nutritive Study of the Growth-Promoting Factors of Four Varieties of Cowpeas

The purpose of the present study is to compare the growth-promoting properties of four varieties of the green cowpea: the blackeye, the red and white crowder, the brown crowder and the cream cowpea.
Date: 1942
Creator: Wilson, Eileen P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dark Adaptation Studies with Adults and Children, Using the Biophotometer (open access)

Dark Adaptation Studies with Adults and Children, Using the Biophotometer

The present study is a part of a long-time cooperative study of the Home Economics Department of the North Texas State Teachers College, begun in 1940. The purpose is to compare the dark adaptations of second and third-grade children made in 1940 with those made of the same children in 1941 and in 1942. Also included in this study is the comparison of a group of freshmen college men made in 1940 with a group of twenty-five men made in 1942. An attempt is also made to determine whether an individual has higher dark adaptation on sunshiny days than on cloudy days.
Date: 1942
Creator: Collins, Mary Margaret
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diet in Relation to Health and Some Common Diseases (open access)

Diet in Relation to Health and Some Common Diseases

The purpose of this study is to present a concise and practical method of applying diet management in health and in some common diseases.
Date: 1942
Creator: Merrett, Mary Jo
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Rat-Growth Study of Typical Low-Cost Texas Diets (open access)

A Rat-Growth Study of Typical Low-Cost Texas Diets

The purpose of this study is to determine the individual and accumulative effect of yellow and white corn meal, cowpeas (black-eyes), fortified oleomargarine, salt pork, molasses, peanuts, cabbage, irradiated evaporated milk, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes upon the nutritional value of the resulting diets.
Date: 1942
Creator: Hunter, Margaret
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Effect of Feeding High Vitamin A Foods Upon the Dark Adaptation of College Girls (open access)

A Study of the Effect of Feeding High Vitamin A Foods Upon the Dark Adaptation of College Girls

It is the purpose of the study to determine if the addition of Vita Yam as a source of vitamin A to the daily diet improves the dark adaptation of college-age students.
Date: 1942
Creator: Lewis, Amber Loreta
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Growth-Promoting Qualities of the Peanut Protein (open access)

A Study of the Growth-Promoting Qualities of the Peanut Protein

This study is a comparison of the growth of albino rats fed on a diet containing beef protein with the growth of albino rats fed on a diet containing peanuts as the source of protein.
Date: 1942
Creator: Hull, Janie B. Kellett
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Interest of Junior and Senior High School Girls in the Various Home Activities Performed by Them (open access)

A Study of the Interest of Junior and Senior High School Girls in the Various Home Activities Performed by Them

The study herein described was made of the seventy-nine girls in the junior and senior high school (grades 8, 9, 10, 11, 12) of the Public School of Cranfills Gap, Texas. The study was made with the purpose of finding the interests of this group of girls in the activities required of them in their homes, so that the writer might use the information gained in building a more successfully functioning program of homemaking in the Cranfills Gap Public School.
Date: 1942
Creator: Hoff, Hannah Pauline
System: The UNT Digital Library