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Effective cooperation between rural school patrons and the schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
In 1909, ten states had commissions searching out the causes of the wretched condition of schools in the country and villages. While the city schools have improved their courses of study, erected fine buildings, and are ...
Factors favoring or opposing injuries from transplanting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
"The purpose of this investigation was to determine the factors favoring or opposing the injuries following the transplanting of vegetables. The factors dealt with in this study were as follows: (a) The relation of moisture ...
Critism of the methods of Christian missions in China from a sociological point of view
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
Text from page 1: "Christian Missions have been a powerful agency toward the social transformation of mission lands. While it has been as a rule the avowed purpose of missionaries to work for individuals, they have from ...
An investigation of the mid-Missouri regional planning commissioners perception and acceptance of regional planning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
toward the RPC. (4) Two distinctive groups of commissioners emerged. Those commissioners who were locally oriented, having little communications or contract with the people outside their immediate locality, viewed the RPC as primarily a planning agency...
The publishing empire of Bernarr Macfadden
(University of Missouri., 1958)
"Bernarr Macfadden has often been written up in magazines and newspapers, and he has been the subject of a handful of biographies. This is not hard to understand when one learns something about the man. Macfadden was a ...
Studies on ecology and lipolytic activity of Corynebacterium bovis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1970)
decreased hydrolytic activity towards -naphthyl myristate. The optimum pH for the hydrolysis of -naphthyl laurate and -naphthyl myristate ranged from 7.7 to 8.6. Triglyceride hydrolysis by washed cells was detected by incubating the cells with the substrate...
The Old English Herbal in Cotton Ms. Vitellius C. iii : studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
Even for experts in the field, early English medicine seems to present difficulties. For the uninitiated, it is a trackless jungle...the field of medical and other scientific vernacular manuscripts is still a Yukon territory ...
The place names of four river counties in eastern Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1943)
, is the famed Tavern Rock mentioned by the earliest white travellers down the rivers. In Lincoln County the Sink Hole remains as a reminder of the illustrious Black Hawk..."--Pages 3-4....
Development of manual arts instruction in cities of the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
Text from page 1: "The aim of this study is to trace the development of manual arts instruction from the time when it was first suggested as a possible solution for the problem of a more practical training in school for ...
A method of sociological investigation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
"It is the purpose of the author of this thesis to present, from his limited experience as a social surveyor and from a rather extended study of social surveys, the meaning and value of the survey method to the science of ...
An investigation of the dipping and fumigation of nusery stock
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 3: While engaged in the work, many problems, confronting the nurserymen, concerning the eradication of San Jose scale from nursery stock, have been brought to his attention. As a result, a number of experiments ...
Place names of five west central counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1937)
Counties: Platte, Clay, Ray, Jackson, and Lafayette
Edwin Sutherland and the origins of differential association theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1984)
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine thoroughly the origin of Edwin H. Sutherland’s theory of differential association and to show hew it evolved with Sutherland’s development as a criminologist. Comparing criminology to American sociology...
Place names of five central southern counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1939)
Counties: Dallas, Dent, Laclede, Shannon, Texas.
Training teachers for trade and individual subjects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
"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 ...
The control of San Jose scale and the profitable rejuvenation of neglected orchards by spraying
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 1: The San Jose scale is the most serious insect pest of the Missouri orchards. It is capable of killing young fruit trees in two or three years and old trees become unprofitable and succumb to the attack ...
The foundations and normative parameters of a political philosophy of education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
This dissertation establishes the foundations for a fully developed political philosophy of education, as that enterprise has been traditionally conceived and as it has been exemplified in the "great works" which demarcate ...
John Horne Burns : Toward a Critical Biography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1985)
The dissertation traces John Horne Burns's life and career as a novelist and English teacher, from his origins in Andover through his literary success with The Gallery (1947), Lucifer with a Book (1949), and A Cry of ...
Place names of six east central counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1933)
Counties: Audrain, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike, Ralls, and Randolph....
into the field, where I interviewed old residents and other well-informed citizens of the county, verifying old material and collecting new."--Pages 4-5, 7-8....
into the field, where I interviewed old residents and other well-informed citizens of the county, verifying old material and collecting new."--Pages 4-5, 7-8....
Politics and ideology in the Kingdom of Callaway
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1963)
"This is a study of politics in the town of Fulton, the county of Callaway, in the state of Missouri. It is a study which, from one standpoint, is limited in its scope and focus. No attempt is made to describe and to ...