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The treatment of irrational numbers in the secondary schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1908)
The subject matter of this paper was suggested by the belief that a treatment of irrational numbers, from the stand point of the "cut" number, has certain points of superiority over the common treatment from the standpoint ...
Definition of improper groups by means of axioms : a dissertation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
Essentially, a group is an associative field, in which the inverse combinations are uniquely possible. This is a concise statement of the classical definition of a group. The conditions which it connotes will be used here ...
Ben Jonson's relation to Donne
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
Edmund Gosse in his Life and Letters of John Donne has speculated at some length about the personal relationship between Jonson and Donne. Upon the evidence before him, however, Gosse hesitates to assume that this relationship ...
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 ...
Heredity and education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1907)
It is evident that there are two important factors in producing a man and making him what he is, one the endowment given him at birth, the other, the environment into which he comes. No one doubts that the natural endowment ...
The attitude of the ancient Greek writers toward oracles
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1908)
The object of this dissertation is to show to what extent the educated people of ancient Greece believed in the reality, power, and authority of the oracles. There is no doubt that the common people believed implicitly. ...
The old French diphthong ẹi : its development dialectally and in the literary language down to modern times
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)
The withdrawal of pupils from school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 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 ...
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 ...
The forms and extent of Milton's influence upon Thomson, Gray and Collins
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1908)
The attempt to trace in some detail and to indicate to some extent the influence of Milton upon the conceptions and language of Thomson, Gray, and, Collins; to show that their obligation to him is something more specific ...
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.
La contamination de mots français passés en anglais
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 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 ...
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 ...
Some English words of interest, derived from the French, based on Aiol and La Chanson de Roland
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1904)
The greater number of English words derived from French probably came into the language either in the period of intercourse between the two countries preceding the Norman conquest, or subsequent to the conquest and as a ...