1890-1899 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 1890-1899.
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Item Financial history of Boone county from 1821 to 1835(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1896) Gerling, Henry Joseph; Hicks, Frederick C. (Frederick Charles), 1875-1956In a sense the financial history of Boone County may be said to begin as early as 1816, at the time of the organization of Howard County. But in as much as it possessed no financial powers prior to 1821 separate from those of the county within whose jurisdiction it lay, we may regard a consideration of that period as properly beyond the purview of the present work. We shall also confine ourselves to an investigation of the sources of revenue irrespective of its administration and expenditure. This essay would perhaps on this account be more properly entitled a history of the sources of revenue of Boone County from 1821 to 1835. But, although it has been necessary to thus limit the scope of the work, the title originally adopted will apply.Item A thesis on the genitive case in Hartmann von Aue's Armer Heinrich(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1899) Herrnleben, Henry; Hoffman, B. F.The Genitive Case in Mid. High German, as in the other related languages, has been partially traced to adjective origin, denoting by its form the various relations which are now more generally expressed by the derivative adjective. In many instances of course it corresponds to the use of the Genitive in Modern German. Concerning these varied and seemingly complicated uses of the Genitive in Mid. High German, no code of rules can be given that would cover all the examples found. The only way to render an intelligent classification from which the different uses may be studies from their natural and logical function in the sentence in which they occur, is to examine a pure fragment of the language where each individual occurrence of the Genitive may be spoken of separately. For this purpose I selected Hartmann von Aue's "Armer Heinrich," a Mid. High German poem written in the 13th century. It is a truly scholarly production, and its language can safely be considered the best German of the author's time.Item Infinitive in the Nibelungenlied(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1899) Herrnleben, Henry; Hoffman, B. F.The Nibelungenlied, or the Great Middle High German Epic, was written in the form we now have it in the first half of the 13th century, and contains over 8,000 lines written in form-line strophes in Hexameter. Its original home was in northern Europe in the land south and west of the North Sea. Its home is rich in myth and legendary look. Whether the myths and legends so nicely woven into this work are all of Germaine origin is of course not definitely known, still history allows us to make that claim. Neither is it known whether it comes to us as the achievements of one mind or of many but, as that may be, suffice it to say that able critics have placed it among the best of its kind in existence, Homer's "Iliad" not excepted. It has been selected as the subject of this paper because of its high rank in Medieval Literature as well as for its dignity of expression and its purity of language.Item The legal phase of monopolies(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1898) Wilson, W. F. (William Frank), 1875-; Hicks, Frederick C. (Frederick Charles), 1875-1956In the treatment of monopolies it is, perhaps, very properly conceded that some attention be paid to the Labor Question. Such a conclusion is based upon a twofold consideration: 1st because modern economists have placed labor as a commodity alongside of the other products of the industry. 2nd because the common law, together with the early statutes, give us a clear idea of the conception of the law in regard to monopolies as shown by the Law of Conspiracies in Restraint of trade. As regards the merits of the first of these reasons, an acceptance of the well-recognized view of the economists will be sufficient. The second consideration brings us not only to an appreciation of the then existing conditions of society, but may furnish us with some information from which there may be deduced legal principles, that will serve as a precedence to guide us in our study of the present difficulties. Industrial undertakings were as yet in their infancy and society needed very little protection against the manufacturer. As far as he was concerned we find the prototype of the measures that have lately been agitated and advised in the few meager statutes against engrossing forestalling etc., together with the crude conception of contracts in Restraint of Trade. Labor as a commodity was well developed and it was as a protection against the artisan that a consideration of public good led to the laws of Conspiracies in Restraint of Trade. Just so to-day, public welfare demands a powerful instrument to ward off the encroachments of the capitalist and to regulate his influence upon society. Based upon a common consideration of public good, this similarity of' purpose will likely lead us to some principle mutually applicable.Item On the consideration of some special points of the calculus(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1899) Switzler, Royall HillThe subject of this paper is the study of the four problems of: (1) integration of a series term by term; (2) differentiation of a series term by term; (3) reverse of the order of integration in a double integral; (4) differentiation under the sign of interpretation.