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  • Absorption of gases by charcoal in vacua 

    Blom, Edward Charles (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    Work of Dewar and Others. -- That charcoal is a good obsorbent of gases has long been know. The subject was first investigate by Saussure, and a detailed examination of this property of charcoal was made by Hunter (Phil. ...
  • Art as an interpretation of history during the Hellenistic Age 

    Pritchard, Bertha (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    In this work, I have not been concerned so much with the trivial events and facts of art in history, as I have desired to interpret in a broader sense the political and social condition of the age through the medium of its ...
  • Browning and the Florentine Renaissance 

    Major, Mabel Irmyn (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    There seem to me to be three distinct causes why Florence rather than any of the other city states was the center of the Italian Renaissance. The first of these is that she preserved her popular government long enough to ...
  • The care of the dependent classes in Columbia, Missouri 

    Abram, Robert Cranston (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    It would seem at first thought that Columbia would have no serious charity problem, that it is so advantageously situated that poverty and dependency would be reduced to a minimum. The city has a population of 13,122, most ...
  • Catullus as a nature poet 

    Carter, Bessie Myrtle (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    Text from Introduction: The method of procedure in this study of Catullus has been to examine each of the worlds above mentioned with a view to discovering their impression upon the poet. It was found that he views nature ...
  • The children in Shakespeare's plays 

    Moore, Ethel (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    Text from page 1: In the study of Shakespeare's plays, the major characters have been considered almost exclusively; the minor characters have been largely neglected or ignored. Highly important among these minor characters ...
  • The Chinese mind : a study in race psychology 

    Creighton, J. W. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    "If the Chinese men and women of like passions and abilities as ourselves, we are free to develop Chinese education on lines similar to those in the West, always being able to use the results of western progress in the ...
  • The Coccidae of scale insects of Missouri 

    Hollinger, Albert Harold (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    Text from pages 1-2: Missouri stands almost surrounded by her sister states without having given her contributions to coccidology along with the others. Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio has each added much to our ...
  • Comparative rankings of normal school graduates and full course university students in the School of Education 

    Wiley, James Alvin (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    There has been much difference of opinion as to which group of students ranks higher in university scholarship---those who enter the School of Education as normal school graduates or those who spend full four years on the ...
  • The control of San Jose scale and the profitable rejuvenation of neglected orchards by spraying 

    Talbert, Thomas Jesse (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    Text from page 1: The San Jose scale is the most serious insect pest of the Missouri orchards. It is capable of killing young fruit trees in two or three years and old trees become unprofitable and succumb to the attack ...
  • The cost of milk production 

    Keeney, Mark Hawkins (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    This condition of milk prices has lead to considerable unrest in the dairy industry. State and federal experts have studied the problem, and extension and country agricultural workers, city chambers of commerce, special ...
  • Determinations of various forms of nitrogen in bovine flesh, including the products of hydrolysis of some of the proteins 

    Thrun, Walter Eugene, 1892- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    When Hausmann introduced his method for nitrogen distribution into protein analysis, he opened the way for great progress in that line of investigation. Winterstein later showed that phoaphotungstic acid would also precipitate ...
  • The development of religious education in the Baptist Sunday schools of the United States 

    Dailey, Roy Samuel (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    The purpose of this study is to find out how the Sunday school in the Baptist churches in the United States has developed in religious education. The main features with regard to which the study is made are 1) the purpose ...
  • The distribution of farm labor 

    Sheppard, Donald David (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    It is important that a farmer know the labor requirements in the productions of the various crops and in the production of the various classes of livestock, and that he know what influence a combination of crops and stock ...
  • The earlier political career of Thomas Hart Benton 1820-1833 

    Heinberg, Henry Edgar (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    Text from page 3: The purpose of this study is to consider the part that was taken by Benton in the political affairs of Missouri during the earlier years of his service in the Senate, to determine what were the influences ...
  • The eclipsing binary TV cassiopeiae 

    Cummings, Edith Eleanor (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    "The present discussion is based on 51 plates taken by Dr.Baker and the writer with the 5-inch camera during the period from July 1914 to October 1915. These plates where exposed about 1.5 mm. outside of focus, and were ...
  • The fat and lipase content of the blood following fat feeding and during increased muscular work 

    Robnett, Dudley Anderson (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    Summary: 1. The fat content of the blood inoreases after a meal rich in cotton seed oil fat. 2. Cotton seed oil fat is more slowly digested than cream fat. 3. The lipase content of the blood increases after a meal of cotton ...
  • First year reading 

    Thompson, Frank F. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    This thesis will concern itself with first year reading, and it will have the following aims: 1. To examine the subject matter of first year reading in order to see what values the literature presuppose the child capable ...
  • A geologic section along the north side of the Missouri River from Providence, Missouri to North Jefferson, Missouri 

    Griley, Horace Longin (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
    The purpose of the field work was, primarily, to collect sufficient data from measurements made at numerous points along the northside of the Missouri River to draw acourately, in a structure section, the contacts of the ...
  • The growing power of the governor 

    Holloway, Daniel Heber (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 ...