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A study of intelligibility and quality ratings of speech handicapped children
(Northern Illinois University, 1954)For this study, recordings of the speech of children attending the 1953 Summer Speech Rehabilitation Center at Northern Illinois State Teachers College were made before and after a six-weeks training session. These recording© ... -
Progressivism and the campaign and election of 1924
(Northern Illinois University, 1954)It is the generally accepted function of an introduction to sketch in the background material pertinent to the main topic at hand and thus quickly dispense with it. Such will not be the function of this introduction. Instead ... -
The husband and wife relationships in the Canterbury tales
(Northern Illinois State Teachers College, 1954)In 1870 James Russell Lowell wrote, "It is good to retreat now &nd then beyond earshot of tbe introspective confidences of modern literature and lose ourselves in the gracious worldlines of Chaucer."1 If such a retreat ... -
The chemistry of carbon-carbon double bonds
(Northern Illinois State Teachers College, 1955)Before we can discuss the chemistry of carbon- carbon double bonds, we must be acquainted with what we mean by a double bond. The outer, or valence, shell of electrons surrounding an atomic nucleus is subdivided into areas ... -
A comparative study of four utopias of the renaissance period : More's Utopia, Rabelais' The Abbey of Theleme, Campanella's The city of the sun, and Bacon's New Atlantis
(Northern Illinois University, 1955)Lovers of literature will agree that the study of utopias is most interesting. I have always been intrigued by More’s Utopia and have glibly made use of the phrase "a utopian state of affairs” as meaning something that ... -
The rise of English nationalism as reflected in the non-dramatic literature of the Renaissance
(Northern Illinois State College, 1956)The Renaissance was an abundantly productive period of English history. Thera are multitudinous volumes of literature still preserved from this era. Perhaps one could almost say, "Seek and ye shall find," for this was a ... -
Experimental determination of Planck's quantum of action employing commercial photo-tubes
(Northern Illinois State College, 1956)The purpose of this researeh has been the investigation of experimntal procedures and apparatus for the determination of Planck's quantum of action. Primary attention wee centered on the photoelectric experiments of the ... -
General considerations about polyploidy and differences between monoploids and diploids of maize
(Northern Illinois University, 1956)The concept of polyploidy has bean known for the past one hundred years, but scientists did not realize its full importance until the nineteen-thirties. Nowadays, polyploids can be artificially produced by the application ... -
A consideration of the influences of democracy upon Japanese elementary and secondary education with special emphasis upon the reorganization accomplished during the reconstruction period following the end of the second world war
(Northern Illinois State College, 1956)In a consideration of the influences which democratic forces have had upon the public education of Japan, mention must first be made of the history of the Japanese nation to give adequate background for the purpose of ... -
Status-personality in labor-management negotiations : a conceptual study
(Northern Illinois University, 1956)Collective bargaining is a process of interpersonal relations involving group dynamics, the interaction of persons holding culturally defined positions of labor and management. The isolation of many variables would be ... -
A philosophic consideration and justification of the unique functions of the democratic educational leader
(Northern Illinois University, 1956)The purpose of this paper is twofold. It is an attempt to present the unique characteristics of leadership found in the democratic educational leader within a democratic society. It is further a search for research evidence ... -
Arthropodous ectoparasites of rodents
(Northern Illinois State College, 1956)During the author's tour of duty with the United States Army, he was engaged in a rodent control program at Fort Lewis, Washington. Although not a part of the objective of that program, it was noted that rodents were ... -
The present status of attitude measurement
(Northern Illinois State College, 1956)Introduction: During recent years, there have been scores of experimenters who have been concerned with the measurement of attitudes. The purpose of this paper is to define and examine the problems which these people have ... -
Selected personality factors which influence success in retail selling
(Northern Illinois State College, 1956)Marketing, which is often called distribution, makes goods and services more valuable by getting them where they are wanted, when they are wanted, and transferred to those people who want them.1 It has been estimated that ... -
President Lincoln's relationship with General George McClellan
(Northern Illinois University, 1956)George Brinton McClellan graduated from West Point in 1846 and served with credit on General Scott's staff during the Mexican War. After serving with General Scott, General McClellan was assigned as an instructor in practical ... -
A partial check list of cultivated trees and shrubs of the Northern Illinois State College Campus
(Northern Illinois State College, 1956)The attractiveness of any group of buildings, whether they be residential, commercial, or educational, is greatly enhanced by the landscape plantings that surround them. The somewhat depressing effect of a recently developed ... -
Music and history in the Gothic and Renaissance
(Northern Illinois University, 1956)The study of music is generally pursued from one particular point of view; a certain instrument is learned, the technique of composition is studied, or the history of music is surveyed more or less carefully. Specialized ... -
A history of the adoption of the fourteenth amendment with particular reference to its purposes and effects
(Northern Illinois University, 1956)In 1954, the United States Supreme Court delivered the opinion In the case of Brown v. Board of Education. The Court held that the plaintiffs, by reason of the segregation complained of, were deprived of the equal protection ... -
A study of Confederate prisons : causes, nature and extent of privations suffered by Union soldiers
(Northern Illinois State College, 1957)In this mass of material the man with a preconceived notion can find facts to his liking--In no part of history of the Civil War is a wholesome skepticism more desirable, and nowhere is more applicable a fundamental tenet ... -
Horace Walpole's correspondence and memoirs
(Northern Illinois University, 1957)It would be presumptuous to suggest that this paper has any importance as a piece of scholarly research. It uncovers no new facts, nor does it illuminate familiar information with brilliant critical insight. The thesis of ...
