Browsing 1910-1919 Theses (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Miller, Walter, 1864-1949"
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Horace as a nature poet
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)In order to be called a true poet of nature, one must possess a deep appreciation and love for the natural world, and the ability to express this feeling in beautiful and appropriate verse. The men who have attained fame ... -
Horace's conception of friendship
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)Friendship is the most elevating of human affections, and yet it is a relation that cannot be explained or defined. It begins and ends in feeling, and feeling is a matter of purely personal organization. It is this subjective ... -
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 ... -
Investigation of the stretch moduli
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)Text from page 15: Professor E. R. Hedrick, after plotting numerous curves from data obtained by the Watertown Arsenal, on testing strength of materials, found that in a great many determinations of the relation of the ... -
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 ... -
Religion of Tibullus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)Tibullus is generally considered a poet sincere and devout in his religion; for he is constantly invoking the presence of the divinities, vowing sacrifice to them, and dwelling upon their beneficence to mankind. It is the ... -
Some biological and chemical effects of sulfur upon plant growth and upon the soil
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)Abstract taken from the concluding paragraph of the Introduction to this thesis: ... The discovery of the fertilizing value of sulfur by accident in the application of sulfur to plants as a fungicide, has led several ... -
Women in the laundry industry in Columbia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)"In making this survey of the women in the laundry industry in Columbia, I have attempted to cover, as far as is possible, every condition and fact connected with their home and working life. To do this, I have interviewed ...