Browsing Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (1940-2009) by Issue Date
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Pirates of Hawaii
(1942)Until recent years, all who guided children's reading relied upon the "classics," which have received general acceptance as worthy literature; or else they relied upon the books which they had found satisfactory during ... -
The trend toward the development of state systems of junior colleges as evidenced by legislative enactments, court and other official decisions, in the Southwestern states and Iowa
(1947)In the Southwest, Texas and California are among the leaders in the junior college movement in the United States. It is the purpose in this study to show that an analysis of the trends evidenced by these states and those ... -
A study of leisure time and recreational interests of 982 fifteen and sixteen year old Reagan (Houston, Texas) Senior High School students
(1948)There were two main purposes for this study: (1) to discover as accurately as possible how fifteen and sixteen year old boys and girls of the Reagan (Houston, Texas) Senior High School make use of their leisure time; and ... -
A proposed course of study for legal stenographers
(1948)The purpose of this study was: to prepare a one- semester course of study on the college level, which could be used In the training of students for employment as legal secretaries. The Investigation was made (1) by mailing ... -
An evaluation of high school grade indices and academic aptitude test scores as predictive measures of scholastic success of Negro college students
(1949)The purpose of this study was (1) to evaluate the high school academic record as a method of predicting academic success or failure of Negro freshman students in the first semester of college work at the Texas State ... -
A commercial occupational survey of one hundred selected business firms of Houston, Texas, as a basis for recommending changes in the high school commercial curriculum
(1949)Problem. The purpose of this study was to Investigate the employment needs for office workers and the job require ments of one hundred selected business firms of Houston, Texas, In order: (1) to determine the adequacy of ... -
An evaluation of the California Test of Personality
(1950)The need for diagnosis of personality maladjustment appears obvious when i tis realized that personality problems are probably the most common causes of discharge from employment, and are probably the most common causes ... -
A study of organic brain damaged patients in a United States Army General Hospital
(1950)This study consisted of an analysis of the test scores made by fifty verified organic patients on the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale. The group tested were routine brain damaged patients found in the wards of Brooke ... -
Some aspects of the personality of Lafcadio Hearn
(1951)With the objective of interpreting some of the outstanding aspects of the personality of the author Lafcadio Hearn, the present research has weighed that author's correspondence and thematic writing, as well as the reports ... -
An investigation of the relationship between frustration-aggression patterns and intelligence as shown by two racial groups
(1951)Frustration and intelligence variables are important concepts in clinical and academic psychology. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between intelligence and frustration-aggression patterns in a ... -
A historical and implicative study of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
(1951)A Historical and Implicative Study of Lucretius' de Rerum Natura. Titus Lucretius Carus, whose private life has been lost to unrecorded history, but whose single gift to posterity, a philosophic poem, has preserved the ... -
A methodological exploration. The use of inverted cluster analysis on MMPI profiles
(1951)The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory has been widely used to evaluate the problems of neuropsychiatric patients. The authors and othrs have stressed the importance of a pattern or profile interpretation of the ... -
Application of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in differentiating criminals and their non-criminal brothers
(1951)The purpose of this study was to investigate the capacity of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory to differentiate significantly between criminals and their non-criminal brothers. Brothers were selected since ... -
An evaluation of educational television in the Houston area
(1952)Because of the newness of television, educators who desire to work with it have found that they are dealing with a great many intangibles. So far, there has been no direct application of television to education. The ... -
A history of Southern Baptists in Houston (1836-1900)
(1952)The Scope and Purpose of this Thesis. This treatise seeks to catalogue the historical events and growth of Southern Baptists in Houston from 1836 through 1900. It is the first time that such a project has been attempted. ...