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The Norman-English baronage as a factor in English political and governmental development, 1066-1205
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)
The purpose of this thesis is to study the history of the English baronage as a factor in early English History - special emphasis being given to their political and governmental development from the Norman Conquest to the ...
A study of the physical and chemical properties of the soil as influenced by cowpea culture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
In the past twenty-five years much experimental work has been done with cowpeas, in relation to cultural methods, fertilization, and variety tests, but practically nothing has been written with regard to the direct effect ...
General consideration of the calcium and phosphorus in the ration of growing cattle
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The object of this experiment was to compare two rations, one of high calcium and phosphorus content and the other of low calcium and phosphorus content, in their effects upon growing calves.
A study in seventh grade subject-matter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
Two years ago the writer came into the University Elementary School to devote about half time to teaching the seventh grade and the other half to graduate work in the University. As the writer worked along he found that ...
Investigation of the rest period of seeds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
In all plants, including fungi and algae, as well as higher forms, this periodicity of growth, due to season, nutrition, environment, etc., is seen. Practically all temperate zone plants exhibit a yearly periodicity. The ...
Study of difficult churning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
There is at the present time a lack of definite knowledge as to why cream, at certain times, fails to give up its fat in the form of butter. This trouble occurs most commonly where only one or two cows are kept, the usual ...
The methods of missionaries in civilizing savage and barbarous peoples viewed from the standpoint of sociology and pedagogy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1907)
This thesis assumes that missionaries are a civilizing force. Their work is frequently initial and fundamental in civilizing savage and barbarous peoples. But what is meant by civilization? The significance usually attached ...
Musicology and Its Application to American Music
(1963-05)
This paper attempts to give a clear definition of and a brief history of musicology and a background of Puritan, African American, and Native American music and some of the influences of each on American music. The music ...
Study of the factors influencing the composition of beef fat
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
protein or carbohydrate or a mixture of these. Each investigator has questioned the theories of the others until at the present time one is able to find a great deal of material in support of any one view. During the progress of the nutrition...
The separation of vanadium from crude sodium uranate and conversion of latter into uranium oxide
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The experiments here described have resulted in at least four methods that have proven successful for removal of vanadium from the crude urinate, which is obtained on a large scale in the plant of the National Radium Institute.
Village life in Japan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)
in the study of social conditions in Japan; and likewise how few really valuable things have been written along the lines which are here undertaken. I have consulted practically everything available in English bearing in any way upon the different phases...
Recent Jewish immigration to the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
on the subject and was available here, both the good and the bad, the scientific and the purely sentimental, and to separate the wheat from the chaff of this material in order to arrive at a rational conclusion regarding this vast subject. The writer was guided...
The Celtic legends and their use in the modern Celtic plays and poetry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
The recovery and opening of the Irish legends is undoubtedly the most important phase of the Irish literary movement. The legends contain the very essence of the Irish genius. These stories of "old, unhappy, far-off things" ...
The principles underlying the selection of a course of study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The problem of this study is to find the principles that should underlie the selection of the school curriculum. It is not a scientific investigation of the social and psychological facts upon which the course of study ...
A study of the extent to which growth retarded during the early life of the beef animal can be later regained
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
This thesis describes a study carried out by the author to better understand growth retardation in calves by experimenting with feed rations.
Pedagogy Related to the Boy's Changing Voice
(1960-06)
It was the original purpose of this paper to show how the sound and common sense practices of education could be adapted to maintaining the boy's singing voice and interest in music through the period of adolescence. ...
The structural quality of tone-color in Paradise lost
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
This paper attempts to show to what extent the various manifestations of tone-color in Paradise Lost have compensated for the absence of rhyme. A chapter is devoted to the assimilative office of tone-color in the poem, ...
Sir Thomas Browne's Religio medici and two seventeenth century critics
(University of Missouri Press, 1973)
Browne has become so traditionally a part of the history and texture of classic English prose style that we sometimes unconsciously undervalue his ideas and their power to arouse dispute in his time. The primary purpose ...
On Calderon
(University of Missouri Press, 1978)
This study will deal specifically with seven of Calderon's plays: two autos, Los encantos de la Culpa and El gran teatro del mundo; the "metaphysical" play La vida es sueno; the historico-religious play El principe constante; ...
Report of the proceedings of the Fifth Wheat Loan Library Workshop, Delhi, March 5-9, 1962
(United States Information Service, 1963)
This is a report of the fifth and final Wheat Loan Library Workshop held in Delhi from March 5 to 9, 1962.