Search
Now showing items 1-20 of 631
Maplewood Barn Theatre book
(1974-04)
The concept of Arts in the Parks is not new in the United States. The provision of natural and manmade theatres and amphitheatres in major American
cities has been actively in process from the late Nineteenth Century. ...
On some classes of non-analytic functions of a complex variable
(University of Missouri, 1909)
The fact, namely, that the analytic functions are a very limited and special class, with the additional fact that there seems to be no reason a priori why many of the theorems concerning analytic functions cannot be extended ...
The extraction and recovery of radium from low grade American pitchblende ores
(University of Missouri, 1918)
The pitchblende deposits of the United States are widely distributed, altho the most extensive deopsits are found in Colorado. In the past many of them yielded ore carrying high percentages of uranium oxie (U[subscript ...
Early history of money and banking in Missouri
(University of Missouri, 1906)
Since money is an instrument of commerce it follows that a history of money that did not take into account the extent and character of exchanges would be lacking in a most essential respect. In a highly developed state of ...
English secondary schools in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries
(University of Missouri, 1907)
English secondary education was not a product of the Reformation period, but existed and flourished in earlier times. Apparently reading and writing were everywhere common among the people, for we find that the principal ...
Outdoor relief by the counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri, 1909)
In the following pages the results of a somewhat isolated study of outdoor relief are presented. The general value of the study probably lies in the novel view it affords of a public relief system in the earlier stages of ...
The English sonnet from Wyatt to Milton
(University of Missouri, 1904)
In 1557 there was published in London a little volume hardly known to students of English Literature by the name it then bore, but familiarly known from the name of the publisher as Tottel's Miscellany. This book was a new ...
The essay in Greek literature
(University of Missouri, 1906)
That the essay is a form of literature created by Montaigne, that it was unknown before him, and is distinctively modern, is a theory generally prevalent among the literary public of our time. But it is altogether contrary ...
The use of simul, simulac (atque) and synonyms, cum primum, ut primum and ubi primum, from the Ciceronian period on
(University of Missouri, 1905)
A language when compared to a people shows many points of similarity. Though both are continuous themselves, each is made up of individual units that have their birth, growth and death, but in the case of words, as not in ...
Effect of temperature, density, and strength of electric current on the spectra of gases
(University of Missouri, 1901)
Light may be defined as that vibration of the ether which, acting on the organ of sight, produces in us the sensation of vision. But when, on reflection, we realize that the sense of sight is the most useful of all man's ...
Euripides' idea of God and his attitude toward contemporary religion
(University of Missouri, 1901)
What were the ideas which Euripides entertained in regard to the divine government of the universe and an over ruling deity and what attitude did he sustain toward the gods of Greece as commonly accepted in his time? This ...
La contamination de mots français passés en anglais
(University of Missouri, 1907)
Having noticed in various readings and French translations into English, there are many words in English, originating from French, whose meaning is very different in both languages. The author asks the cause of this and ...
Conditions modifying the effect of deleterious agents upon the fungi
(University of Missouri, 1905)
Nageli, Dandeno and True and Oglevee have drawn the conclusion that the presence of insoluble substances in toxic solutions reduces the toxicity of such solutions. Since in the work already done along this line, phanerogams ...
Comparison of the Iphigenias, Euripides, Racine and Goethe
(University of Missouri, 1900)
The legend of Iphigenias is one of the most touching of its kind and its theme has been a favorite with dramatists at various times. The story of the young girl, so gentle and forbearing, so modest and submissive to her ...
The effect of liming an acid soil on the growth of certain legumes
(University of Missouri, 1914)
The experimental work for this thesis was planned to secure information as to the effect of limestone applied to an acid soil (1) on the growth of legumes, (2) on the activities of tuberclue bacteria, and (3) on the amount ...
The withdrawal of pupils from school
(University of Missouri, 1906)
This subject has, perhaps, received more attention and less careful study than any other educational problem. The numerous compulsory school attendance laws, both in Europe and America, testify to the consideration this ...
Tendencies to emphasize practical problems in the teaching of physics in secondary schools
(University of Missouri, 1910)
Perhaps no subject in the secondary school curriculum has greater possibilities than the subject of physics. Most of the sciences are more or less dependent upon it. Not a single one can stand alone. Indeed, approximately ...
The variable RS Cassicpeiae (108.1904)
(University of Missouri, 1907)
The variability of this star was discovered by Madame Ceraski from plates made by Blakjo at Moscow, and was announced in A. N. No. 3953. The photographs indicated a variation from the ninth to the eleventh magnitude ...
Acquisition of the Hawaiian Islands : a step in the territorial and commercial expansion of the United States
(University of Missouri, 1912)
During the Middle Ages, the rulers of the countries of Europe were little interested in colonial or commercial expansion. The questions which interested them were those relating to the increase of the royal power or the ...
The absolute measurement of electrical capacities
(University of Missouri, 1913)
Of the various methods in use at the present time for the absolute measurement of electrical capacities in electromagnetic units, none give the satisfaction desired. Only two of these methods are in common use and they ...