1910-1919 Theses (MU)
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This collection contains the theses submitted to the Graduate School by masters degree candidates at the University of Missouri in the years 1910-1919.
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Item An investigation of dam failures(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912) Anderson, Elmer Lee"It is the purpose of this investigation to ascertain the main facts; that is the cause of failure, type, dimensions, kind and foundation of the dam; for all the dams that have failed in the U.S.A. during the last 27 years. The reason for this investigation is to determine by tabulations the chief cause of failure and the kind of dam that seems to have the greatest tendency to fail. The interest in these various causes is, that by finding out which ones are the most prevalent, a further study and investigation can be carried on and these special causes given weight in the design and construction of dams."Item Training teachers for trade and individual subjects(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919) Wright, J. C."As an evidence of the great and constantly increasing need for industrial education it is only necessary to note the enormous industrial development of this nation. This was further emphasized during the recent war by the very 6Teat demand for skilled mechanics in all occupations. These were needed both in industry and for military service. All nations are looking forward to a period of prosperity following the period of reconstruction. The industrial prestige of the nation will depend not only upon the supply of raw materials, available capital, and facilities for transportation, but to a large extent upon the available supply of skilled labor. Great Britain, early recognizing this situation in the British Empire, passed a measure requiring all youth between fourteen and eighteen years of age to attend continuation schools for eight hours per week and for not less than 320 hours per year."--Page 1.Item Sex variability(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919) Summerfield, HazelThe question of variation has long been of interest to scientists. Since the time of Darwin we find investigators endeavoring to determine which sex is the more variable. In a well known controversy on this subject between Havelock Ellis and Karl Pearson, the conflicting opinions are clearly illustrated as shown by the following quotations: "A precise knowledge of the actual facts of the life of men and women forbids us to dogmatise rigidly concerning the respective spheres of men and women. It is a matter which experience alone can demonstrate in detail. It lays the axe at the root of many pseudo-scientific superetitions. Yet there are certain general conclusions which have again and again presented themselves, even when we have been occupied in considering very diverse aspects of the physical and psychic phenomena of human life. One of these is the greater variability of the male; this is true for almost the whole of the field we have covered, and it has social and practical consequences of the widest significance. The whole of our human civilization would have been a different thing, if in early zoological epochs the male had not acquired a greater variational tendency than the female."--Page 1.Item American relations with Mexico 1910-1917(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919) Smith, Launa Maria"It is the purpose of this thesis to give an historical account of the international relations existing between the American and Mexican nations from 1910 to 1917." --Page 1.Item The teaching of community civics(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916) Oppenheimer, Julius JohnText taken from page ii: "This thesis is the outgrowth of a feeling that our present day civics is, in a large measure, inadequate to the needs of our citizenship. During my four years' experience in teaching civics in high school I had a growing conviction that the traditional civic instruction did not meet the interests of the high school students and certainly did not help them in any positive way to fully appreciate their civic obligations and opportunities. High school students complained that civics was hard and uninteresting. I realized the problem end endeavored to remedy conditions. Better results came by making a closer study of local problems and by introducing the study of current events. The subject was still almost wholly a study of the political agencies. The interest which was taken in the study of current events and the interest which was shown in a brief course in sociology brought to me the importance of greater study of social conditions."