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Natural interests of adolescents
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
The purpose of this investigation was to discover as far as possible, in the limited time available, the capacities of the adolescent mind with special reference to the lines of work represented in the typical high school ...
Corn preparation for fattening lambs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
The question of the advisability of grinding grain for farm animals is one which is causing a great deal of discussion at the present time. Theoretically it would be expected that any preparation of a feed, for any class ...
The best winter ration for the dairy heifer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The increasing demand for dairy cows, and cows of greater efficiency has led to a more systematized rearing of the dairy heifer. The need of a winter ration, considering the economic price and amount of food consumed, is ...
Anatomy of Ascidia viridis u. sp.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1902)
All the observations for this description were made from specimens preserved either in formalin or picro-formalin. The formalin specimens, which were left in the test, were found to be in the best condition. Those preserved ...
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 ...
Conditions modifying the effect of deleterious agents upon the fungi
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1905)
Nageli, Dandeno and True and Oglevee have drawn the conclusion that the presence of insoluble substances in toxic solutions reduces the toxicity of such solutions. Since in the work already done along this line, phanerogams ...
Comparison of the Iphigenias, Euripides, Racine and Goethe
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1900)
The legend of Iphigenias is one of the most touching of its kind and its theme has been a favorite with dramatists at various times. The story of the young girl, so gentle and forbearing, so modest and submissive to her ...
Early history of money and banking in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
Since money is an instrument of commerce it follows that a history of money that did not take into account the extent and character of exchanges would be lacking in a most essential respect. In a highly developed state of ...
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 ...
The dramatic structure of Shakespeare's plays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1904)
A drama is a presentation of an action. Action is the connection and interweaving of details, by a controlling idea, into a work of art, possessing unity; it is the train of incident, conceived as a whole. Events in ...
The development of the administration of public health and safety, Kansas City, Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1907)
As indicated by the title, this is a study of the development of administration in the field of Public Health and Safety in Kansas City. Mr. Fairlie in his Municipal Administration includes within this field Economic ...
A study of the Ebbinghaus conjectural method
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
While the need for persistent drill is clearly recognized in the elementary and secondary schools, when the student enters college it is supposed that he is prepared to at once assume responsibility for his studies, a ...
Study of the coloring matter in milk serum
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
During the course of an investigation of the natural pigments of milk carried on in the Research Laboratories of the Dairy Department, at the University of Missouri, it became evident that more than one pigment existed in ...
Village life in Japan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)
The content and environment of Japanese life are so totally different from those of American life that it may not be amiss if we consider first some of the difficulties to be met with in any sound and unbiased discussion ...
The killing of plant tissue by low temperature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
The term freezing to death is applied to a very specific set of phenomena in plants. With all plant tissues, when a certain temperature is reached very shortly after thawing, it will be found that the tissue has taken on ...
The effect of oil on permeability of Portland cement mortar
(University of Missouri, 1915)
In the past few years, since the use of concrete has come into such general use, the great question which has come about is to the possibilities of making it watertight. Several different materials have been proven to be ...
The significance of the neurocytological changes following section of axones
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
There has been a considerable amount of work done on the effect of an interruption of the continuity of nerve axones. But most of the work was done from an anatomical or from a pathological instead of from a physiological ...
The preparation and behavior of certain halogen and nitro derivatives of benzene
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
During the course of this research four new derivatives of 2,6-dibromo-4-nitroaniline were prepared. The action of sodium, sodium ethylate, and nitric acid with both the monoitro compounds was studied, as well as the action ...
A study of types of farming in the U.S. by the farm management survey method
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
The following study was made to get an insight into the conditions and farm practices of six different types of farming in the United States from the standpoint of farm management. Previous work along this line indicates ...
A study of the treatment of the intestinal parasites of swine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
Parasitic infestation of the intestines is one of the most serious and wide spread diseases of swine. With the exception of cholera there is probably no other one disease causing greater loss to hog owners. Parasitism, ...