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Influence of Catullus on Latin poetry of the Augustan age
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
To what extent Catullus was a factor in the poetry of the Augustan age, or more accurately, what he contributed to it in form and substance is the object of this inquiry. A sympathetic reading of his poems alone assures ...
Mythology of Propertius
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
It is seldom that the mythology of the ancient Greeks and Romans is distinguished from their religion. This arises largely from the fact that the same supernatural beings figure in each. But mythology and religion represent ...
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 ...
A study in sentence structure
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The present study is a report of the results of the attempted correction of eighteen types of grammatical errors through the "incidental method" of teaching composition. This method as opposed to the "Formal Method" is ...
Women in war work, 1914-1918
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
Contrary to the popular belief that women in factories are doing men's work, are the facts which are brought to light as the conditions of work when the factory system was established in the United States of America. It ...
Place names in the southwest counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1930)
Counties: Barton, Cedar, Dade, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton, and Polk...
"This thesis is a record of a careful research into the origin of the place-names in eight of the counties in the southwest part of Missouri. These counties are Barton, Cedar, Dade, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton, and Polk. These counties lie...
"This thesis is a record of a careful research into the origin of the place-names in eight of the counties in the southwest part of Missouri. These counties are Barton, Cedar, Dade, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton, and Polk. These counties lie...
James Lemen, senior and junior, and the early slavery controversy in Illinois
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1935)
of the Chicago Historical Society, Illinois State Historical Library, State Historical Society or Missouri, Extension Division of the Illinois State Library, Mercantile Library of St. Louis, and to the Shurtleff College Library for valuable aid in research...
The Celtic legends and their use in the modern Celtic plays and poetry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
The recovery and opening of the Irish legends is undoubtedly the most important phase of the Irish literary movement. The legends contain the very essence of the Irish genius. These stories of "old, unhappy, far-off things" ...
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 ...
Political development in the mini-state Caribbean : a focus on Barbados
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
"Seconds after midnight, November 30, 1966, a new trident-bedecked, gold and blue banner caught the prevailing Caribbean breeze signaling the birth of another new nation. The fact that this former British outpost, Barbados, ...
Antony's oriental policy until the defeat of the Parthian expedition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
Text from page 1: "For a comprehensive study of Antony's relations to the Orient, it is necessary to take up in some detail the proconsulship of Gabinius in Syria, for it was as commander of the cavalry that Antony first ...
The work of the Board of public welfare of Kansas City, Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The Board of Public Welfare idea is a universal one, by which we mean that such an institution is applicable to other communities. Its spirit, aim, and principles have been tested, and found not wanting; they meet the ...
The origin, growth, and characteristics of English medieval libraries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
A narrative of libraries falls, as normally, into the four periods usually known as Oriental, Classical, Medieval, and Modern, as does a narrative of political events. There are certain distinguishing characteristics ...
Place names in the central counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1928)
This study is an attempt to determine, while the sources are yet available, the origin of the. names of the towns, streams, country schools, and townships of the following central counties of Missouri: Boone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper, Howard, Moniteau...
The Kansas City Post : its founding, growth and decline
(University of Missouri., 1958)
"It is the purpose of this study to trace the history of The Post, chronicling its contributions to Kansas City journalism, its innovations, additions, editorial position, campaigns and staff. This study is concerned ...
Sports column writing : a comparison of ten 1957 and five 1927 columnists
(University of Missouri., 1958)
"It is the purpose of this study to: (1) Compare the sports column style of the 'Golden Era of Sports'(1927) with our modern (1957) columnists and (2) To analyze the content of the modern sports columns as exemplified in ...
Place names in the north central counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1928)
Counties: Adair, Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Mercer, Putnam, Schuyler, and Sullivan...
This thesis is an attempt to study and determine the origin of the names of the counties, towns, streams, townships, and country schools of the North Central Counties of Missouri. These counties include Adair, Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, Lirin...
This thesis is an attempt to study and determine the origin of the names of the counties, towns, streams, townships, and country schools of the North Central Counties of Missouri. These counties include Adair, Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, Lirin...
American relations with Mexico 1910-1917
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
"It is the purpose of this thesis to give an historical account of the international relations existing between the American and Mexican nations from 1910 to 1917." --Page 1.
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 ...
Comic pattern in the novels of Smollett
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
This dissertation focuses upon the disparity between the bodies of Smollett's novels and their endings. The former is set in a society which historians identify as the "real world" of eighteenth-century London, a world ...