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On the behaviour of fuse wires
(University of Missouri, 1907)
The last few decades have witnessed the introduction of electricity as a factor of everyday life in its use as a source of light, power and heat. The dangers of fire breaking out, or the damaging of machines or other ...
Relation of lime and magnesium to plant growth in Missouri soils
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
with success; sometimes with medium results and sometimes with apparent failure. SIR JOHN BENNET LAWS and SIR JOSEPH HENRY GILBERT were the first to make accurate observations upon the practice of liming. They found that the white or "fat lime" would produce...
The withdrawal of pupils from school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
passed compulsory attendance laws. Such laws, however, are based on the assumption that fault is entirely with the parents or the pupils, and that they must be forced to take advantage of opportunities which they do not themselves appreciate...
Outdoor relief by the counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 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 ...
Cattle production : the cost in Missouri of producing a steer ready for the feed lot
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
If one desires to know the cost of making a locomotive he would not think of going to anyone other than a locomotive manufacturer. If one wishes to know the cost of constructing a building he goes to a contractor. Desiring ...
The crown gall disease of the apple : a discussion of the malady in general as applied to Missouri : experiments with the disease
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1903)
was also uncertain. The thing of most immediate interest was to learn whether certain remedies which it was practically certain would kill any germ of fungi or bacteria, could be used without killing the trees, and if so what strength and in what...
Control of the humus supply of certain important Missouri soils
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1908)
The soils of Missouri, with very few exceptions, are deficient in humus, and the continuous cropping (to corn especially) which is practiced in many parts of the state is rapidly depleting what humus there is in the soil. In many parts of the state...
The pronoun of address in Schiller's dramas
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1907)
This thesis represents practical knowledge gained by a critical study of the pronoun of address, as Schiller used it in his dramas. As far as the writer knows no one has ever written anything concerning Schiller's use of the pronoun of address...
The effect of different nutritive planes upon the economy of gain and the rate of growth of young cattle
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)
This investigation was undertaken in order that something might be learned concerning: (a) the cost of maintenance of live weight in ungrown cattle; (b) the effect of a maintenance ration upon the condition of ungrown ...
English secondary schools in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 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 ...
Some factors influencing the germination of corn : a thesis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1908)
One line of agricultural investigation that has been much neglected is that of determining what factors may influence the germination of corn. There has been in fact no direct work done along this line that is available ...
The forms and extent of Milton's influence upon Thomson, Gray and Collins
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1908)
"general lines"; to point out the indebtedness of Collins and Gray to Milton's versification, and to posit some evidence in the matter of Thomson's debt to Milton in form, is the province of this paper....
The function of literature in secondary education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)
No subject in the curriculum of the secondary school receives more attention than does literature. This was true in the days when it was to be found only in a foreign tongue and before complexity of interests had given a ...
The origin and history of the doctrine of popular sovereignty
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1905)
In this study of the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty the principal attention has been devoted to its origin and its growth as a political policy until Stephen A. Douglas became its champion and secured its adoption by ...
Negro criminality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
It is not the purpose of this study to solve the "Negro Problem" or to offer a program of amelioration, but rather to seek and make clear the causes and predisposing conditions of Negro criminality.
Society in England during the fourteenth century
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1907)
In the early fourteenth century the classes of society in England were in a state of transition. Forces had been at work for some time, but there had been no clear manifestations of the changes in social conditions until ...