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Radio And A Public Address System For The High School, Kenneth H. Westlake

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

All the findings and knowledge of electricity and magnetism are not new; even the Greeks as far back as 600 B. C. knew something about these forces. As time went on the facts increased.

After the experiments of Faraday, Maxwell, Hertz and such men as these, electricity and magnetism became a vital part of human life and endeavor. Within the last twenty-five years the advances in electricity have been very rapid. The action of the electric current is a vital part of many developments and is helping to make human life more enjoyable and interesting.

Almost all schools today are …

December 1930, William Preston Davies

W. P. Davies' Newspaper Column ('That Reminds Me')

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The Importance Of Play, Laura V. Douglas

Education Student Dissertations

While reading the "Principles of Educational Sociology" by Walter Robinson Smith, the writer was deeply impressed by the statement that "Next to the family group and home life, the play group and play life exert the most vital influence upon the unfolding personality of the child." The writer wondered if it was the absence of play life, as American born children of fair social background experience it, that would in some measure explain the dullness of the Italian-American child of Sicilian and Neapolitan origin, who, as the writer knew him, was so lovable, so anxious and eager to please and …

Procedure In A Study Of Speech Disorders, Herbert Edgar Rahe

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The chief purpose of this thesis is not to present a body of scientific observations in support of one particular theory of treatment. Nor is this the place to record the testing out of all of the possible theories presented.

Nevertheless, the results of some practical experience are recorded to show the necessity of understanding the psychogenetic approach to this neglected phase of our education, as well as understanding the organic approach, My chief aim is first to be of aid to teachers in the grammar schools who are confronted most with this problem; and, secondly, to stimulate further research …

A Psychological And Educational Study Of The Language Factors Of The American Research Council. Psychological Examinations Administered To Freshmen At The College Of The Pacific In The Years 1925, 1926, And 1928, Chester Livingston Hoar

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to determine, as far as possible, the extant to which the language-factor tests included in present psychological examinations administered to freshmen at the Collage of the Pacific are reliable as factors contributing to an estimate of the capacities of the individuals examined.

This necessitates a study of both the gross and language-factor tests scores

In making the study, the results of examinations given in three years,—1925, 1926, and 1928, —were utilized. The total number of cases included in these years was 560, a sufficient number to warrant the placing of considerable reliance upon the …

Report Of The Survey Of The Schools Of Tampa, Florida. Made By The Institute Of Educational Research Division Of Field Studies Teacher's College, Columbia University, George D. Strayer

City and Regional Planning -- Florida

This Survey, conducted in 1926 details the condition of Tampa's public schools and recommendations for their improvement in administration, the number of schools, grade classification, curriculum, and teacher's salaries.

Projects In Printing, Edward G. Anderson

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Education and Professional Studies

The value of printing as offered in the curriculum of the graded school has been demonstrated in the training department of the Washington State Normal School at Ellensburg. Students in the seventh and eighth grade classes founded the publication The School News in 1918-1919.

Treaty Of Fort Laramie, 1868 (Kappler), Charles J. Kappler, Nathaniel G. Taylor, William T. Sherman, William S. Harney, John B. Sanborn, Samuel F. Tappen, Christopher C. Augur, Alfred H. Terry, John B. Henderson, Andrew Johnson

US Government Documents related to Indigenous Nations

This 1904 reprint of the Sioux Treaty of 1868, also known as the Treaty of Fort Laramie, 1868, was transcribed and published in vol. II of Charles Kappler’s Indian Affairs. Laws and Treaties. This treaty, between the United States government and the Sioux and Arapaho Nations, established the Great Sioux Reservation, promised the Sioux would own the Black Hills in perpetuity, and set aside the country north of the North Platte River and east of the summits of the Big Horn Mountains as unceded Indian territory. Furthermore, the U.S. government pledged to close the Bozeman Trail forts and provide …

Agreement At Fort Berthold, 1866 And Addenda., Charles J. Kappler, Newton Edmunds, Samuel R. Curtis, Orrin Guernsey, Henry W. Reed

US Government Documents related to Indigenous Nations

This 1904 reprint of the unratified treaty with the Arikara, Mandan, and Hidatsa, was reprinted as the Agreement at Fort Berthold, 1866, in vol. II of Charles Kappler’s Indian Affairs. Laws and Treaties. Originally signed on July 27, 1866, at Fort Berthold, Dakota Territory, this treaty and its Addenda were a set of agreements between the US government and representatives of the Arikara, Mandan, and Hidatsa Nations. In this document, the Arikara, Mandan, and Hidatsa agreed to cede a portion of their land on the east bank of the Missouri River and granted a right-of-way for roads through their …

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1899 -- Vol. 22, No. 02, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

This item is part of the Phi Sigma collection at the College Archives & Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. Contact archives@colum.edu for more information and to view the collection.

Treaty Of Fort Laramie 1868, Nathaniel G. Taylor, William T. Sherman, William S. Harney, John B. Sanborn, Samuel F. Tappan, Christopher C. Augur, Alfred H. Terry, John B. Henderson, Andrew Johnson

US Government Documents related to Indigenous Nations

This treaty, signed on April 29, 1868, between the United States government and the Sioux and Arapaho Nations, established the Great Sioux Reservation, promised the Sioux would own the Black Hills in perpetuity, and set aside the country north of the North Platte River and east of the summits of the Big Horn Mountains as unceded Indian territory. Furthermore, the U.S. government pledged to close the Bozeman Trail forts and provide food, clothing, and annuities to the tribes, given that they agreed to relinquish all rights to live outside the reservation.

An Address On Education, As Connected With The Permanence Of Our Republican Institutions, Lucian Minor

Faculty Publications

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