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The Trumpet in Chamber Music During the 20th Century

Description: The purpose of this thesis is to trace the history of the trumpet in chamber music through the first half of the 20th century. It aims to discuss the technical advances in the instrument and demonstrate the importance of the trumpet in this medium. Chamber music is defined, in this thesis, as all serious instrumental music for two or more instruments played with one instrument to a part. The selections have been chosen on the basis of recognized merit of the composer, the variety of instrument… more
Date: August 1958
Creator: Bauschka, Conrad Romuald
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Random Variables of One Dimension

Description: This thesis examines random variables of one dimension.
Date: August 1958
Creator: Casler, Burtis Griffin
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Maria Edgeworth as a Precursor of Realism

Description: The purpose of this thesis is to study the novels of Maria Edgeworth in an attempt to discover whether or not her novels have merit beyond their representation of the manners and morals of her historical period. This involves first an examination of her novels in the light of such criticism as has given rise to the question of their importance.
Date: August 1958
Creator: Farr, Carie Jane
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The Anglo-Huguenot Alliance, 1562-1593

Description: This thesis discusses the Anglo-Huguenot alliance during the period from 1562 to 1593.
Date: August 1958
Creator: Reynolds, Donald Eugene
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An Analysis of the Background Variables of Negro High School Youth in the Texas Cooperative Youth Study

Description: The purpose of the Texas Cooperative Youth Study was to gather basic data on the problems and interests of youth from youth themselves, their teachers, and their parents in the stages of early, middle, and late adolescence. The study was made to determine interests, attitudes, and concerns of youth in relation to home and family life; to determine whether homemaking education in the school takes into account these concerns and attitudes; and to find out whether interest in homemaking educatio… more
Date: August 1958
Creator: Scott, Lottie Ed
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A Study of Selected Factors Related to Permanency in Science Teaching

Description: The purpose of this study is to gather information related to some factors which are considered to be characteristic of science teaching; to attempt to identify some elements of permanency in science teaching; and to analyze some relationships between the results of the above two criteria with the view of establishing some factors which may be useful as predictors of permanency, or indicative of patterns of permanency, in science teaching.
Date: August 1958
Creator: Lovelace, Allen J.
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Stieljes Integral and Related Topics

Description: The principal purpose of this paper is to develop the properties of Riemann-Stieljes Integrals. Consequently, a knowledge of the terminology and theory of point sets and functions of real variables shall be assumed.
Date: August 1958
Creator: Willis, Charles L.
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On Continuity of Functions Defined on Unrestricted Point Sets

Description: This thesis is concerned with an investigation of the generalizations of continuous real functions of a real variable. In particular, the relationship between uniform continuity and ordinary continuity is concerned. The concept of uniform continuity was first introduced by Heine about 1900.
Date: August 1958
Creator: Wilson, Ural
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Gamma Ray Response of a CsI(T1) Crystal to 14 Mev Neutrons

Description: The purpose of this paper is to study the possible excited states in the nucleus of Cs133. At North Texas State College a 100-Kev Cockcroft-Walton accelerator has been constructed for use as a neutron source for exciting various nuclei and for studying the gamma spectra obtained to determine their energy levels.
Date: August 1958
Creator: Young, Jack Carter
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Pessimism in Three Major English Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Description: This thesis examines the evidences of pessimism in the poetry of each poet, substantiated when possible by parallel prose writings and other critical and biographical material; and finally, it reaches tentative conclusions about the direction of the change in pessimistic outlook of three poets.
Date: August 1958
Creator: Simms, Bobbie Gwen
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The Relationship of Leadership Experiences in High School to Leadership Participation in Community Activities

Description: The problem of this study was stated in the form of a question: What is the relationship of leadership roles occupied in high school to leadership roles occupied during the first ten post graduate years and what are the possible implications for the improvement of education for leadership? The accepted hypothesis was that the occupying of leadership roles in high school does lay the foundation for occupying community leadership roles.
Date: August 1958
Creator: Marks, Melvin Glenn
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A Study of Certain Variabiles and their Implication in the Vocational Rehabilitation Training of Veteran Trainees

Description: When one group of disabled individuals finishes their vocational rehabilitation training programs and another group, almost as large in number, fails to complete their courses one wonders whether there are significant differences in the two groups. The problem in this study is to determine if the two groups differ significantly in certain identifiable characteristics. The identifiable characteristics are some important objective variables that are utilized in the vocational rehabilitation train… more
Date: August 1958
Creator: Mathews, Quinten Snow
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An Evaluative Study of Physical Education Activity Programs for Boys in Selected Junior High Schools of Texas

Description: The problem undertaken in this study was to evaluate the activity phase of boys' physical education programs in selected junior high schools of Texas. As a result of visitation and observation in a number of public junior high schools in the capacity of supervising teacher for physical education majors, it appears that many physical education programs were little more than loosely supervised play periods. Apparently there was room for improvement of these programs but a method for making judgme… more
Date: August 1958
Creator: Muse, James Milton
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Characteristics of Groups Taught Under Two Social Climates

Description: The problem of this study is to determine the effects of two different social climates, as created by different teaching methods, upon the characteristics of college class groups. The social climates utilized in the present investigation were: (a) a democratic social climate, and (b) an autocratic social climate. The actual meaning of the adjectives used to label these social climates is necessarily somewhat different from the meanings attributed to them in political or economic discussions.
Date: August 1958
Creator: Browning, Grady Joe
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A Study of Differences in Some Recreational Interests of Boys and Girls

Description: "The problem of this thesis is to study the recreational interests of children in grades four through seven and to compare the interests of boys with those of girls in order to ascertain whether the interests of the two sexes begin to differ appreciably during these grades, and, if so, to determine the grade level where differences occur."--1-2.
Date: August 1958
Creator: Hiett, Elmer D. (Elmer Donald)
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