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Municipal government in St. Joseph, Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1904)
. Of course, along with the increase in population the scope of the municipal activities of St. Joseph has been greatly widened. The municipal activities of St. Joseph has been considered and will be taken up in a subsequent paper for it is these which...
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 ...
The beginnings of naturalism in the English novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
"By the words "scientific observation" a picture of the laboratory is called up. However, life cannot be reduced to the small limits of a scientist's workshop; thus the naturalistic writer uses the statistical and case ...
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 under careful supervision...
The Jews in England during the 13th century
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1907)
There has been much difference of opinion as to when the Jews first appeared in England. Most historians say they were brought over from the Continent by William the Conqueror upon pecuniary consideration. But there are ...
The psychology of individual differences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
Text from page 1: "Although the subject of individual differences is comparatively new from the standpoint of experimental treatment, it is a theme which has been pondered over many times in practical life, from the very beginning of time. Whenever...
Alliteration in Horace
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
Questions that this paper will attempt to answer are: Does Horace show a preference for alliteration of any particular letter or letters? If so, is this due to the fact that a proportionately large number of the words of ...
The practical teachings of Cicero as set forth in the Orator
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 1: The purpose of this paper is two-fold,--(1) to gather from Cicero's Orator those principles which deal with Rhetoric and (2) to discuss these from the practical point of view....
Studies on contagious abortion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
Text from Introduction: "This thesis includes a review of the more important literature relating to contagious abortion or infectious abortion that was available, and particularly that dealing with experimental researches ...
Horace and his Greek originals in book I of the Odes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
, which he has translated, whose spirit he has caught, or whose thought he has imitated. Hence the classification of these collected examples is made, in respect to the degree of indebtedness, into the following divisions: 1) Lines which are unconscious...
The spirit of home in the literature of the Lower South
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 3: In 1867 Harte began writing stories of the West that were focused upon locality, employing in them a technique similar to that of Poe. He has been heralded as the first contributor to the literature of ...
Concretes and abstracts in the Old English epic Beowulf
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
That poem may surely be said to be abstract in character in which the motive is more real than the deed, in which the thoughts of a man's heart are given more dramatic prominence than the facts of his appearance, in which ...
The growing power of the governor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 29: "The tendency toward a decline in the power and position of the legislature and a corresponding enhancement of that of the executive is one which has been widely observed and commented upon. Probably so ...
Place names of six south central counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1938)
Counties: Osage, Gasconade, Miller, Maries, Phelps, and Pulaski
The evolution of the French novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
considerations that I have begun my account of the French novel with the chansons de geate, --the first French narratives of which we have knowledge that can be classified as novels. Of course, the selection of the date represented by the cansons de geste is in a...