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The embittered misalliance : a study of the relationship between Alexander Pope and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
(Northern Illinois University, 1953)In the London coffee houses on May 21, 1730, gathered the rakes and courtiers, statesmen and politicians, chandlers and hack writers, templars and post boys, who, for a small fee, mingled with one another, reading and ... -
A criticism of the treatment by modern physics textbooks of mass-energy equivalence in special relativity : by Robert C. Krabel
(Northern Illinois University, 1953)Some discussion of relativity appears in all modern physics textbooks. At the minimum, some texts give only a fair formulas. At the most, ether texts devote a whole unit or chapter to special relativity. In those modern ... -
Native drama of England with related developments in the theatres of Germany and Italy
(Northern Illinois University, 1953)No one can say for certain just where and when the native drama of England began. We have no record of theatrical activities during the Dark Ages, but it is not likely that the dramatic instinct was completely stifled even then. -
Sea birds of Midway
(Northern Illinois University, 1953)The author was stationed on Midway Island for eighteen months during World War II and became interested in the bird life found on the island. The span of duty was from April 29, 1944 to September 19, 1945. In this paper ... -
Classification of some protozoa found in Wilkinson's swampages
(Northern Illinois University, 1953)The Department of Biological Sciences at Northern Illinois State Teachers College has made extensive use of Wilkinson's Swamp for instructional purposes. However, to date, little has been done in an attempt to identify ... -
Elgin's junior high school social studies program : a transition toward a core
(Northern Illinois University, 1954)Learned men have said that the solution to all problems is understanding. Today many people are viewing the future with alarm. In our own country for instance we feel the black clouds of war hanging over our heads. We are ... -
Principles of attitudes and social changes found in the American labor movement
(Northern Illinois University, 1954)It is the purpose of this paper to examine the rise of labor In the United States in an attempt to show that the various underscored principles, herein contained, my be regarded as examples of basic principles of social ... -
Unanticipated discoveries in the development of physics
(Northern Illinois State Teachers College, 1954)"Physics is, by common consent, the fundamental science." This statement may be justified primarily in the fact that the younger sciences are considered scientific only to the extent that their concepts are logically ... -
The value of directed reading for personal-social adjustment on the ninth grade level
(Northern Illinois State Teachers College, 1954)The purpose of this study is to investigate the value of directed reading for personal-social growth on the ninth grade level through scientific measurements. A study was made of similar research findings relevant to the ... -
The importance of speech readiness in the speech development of a child
(Northern Illinois State Teachers College, 1954)This paper is a discussion of the importance of the child's developing the ability to talk at the time that he is most ready for speech. Should he fail to begin speaking during this speech readiness period, techniques which ... -
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 ... -
Experimentally observed characteristics of a P-N-P junction transistor with published information
(Northern Illinois University, 1954)In 1948 the first transistor was developed as nothing more than just a laboratory curiousity. Today it has been developed into a small economical valve for electrons. The transistor is a small crystal, about the size of a ... -
How coal strip-mined areas can be reclaimed
(Northern Illinois University, 1954)It was in the summer of 1953 in Dr. Robert Bullington’s advanced eoology class that I first became interested in the reclamation of spoil banks. We had just spent an afternoon field trip tramping all over the recently ... -
The influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter on Henry James' The Turn of the Screw
(Northern Illinois University, 1954)Although the differences between Scarlet Letter and The Turn of the Screw are so strong that they make the two works quite dissimilar, there are many comparisons to be drawn between then that lead to the conclusion that ... -
Certain sociological principles as illustrated in the Russian Revolution
(Northern Illinois University, 1954)The sine qua non of a comprehension of a social movement is a comprehension of forces underlying its essence. This is an endeavor to indicate social forces, the resultant of which culminated in Bolshevik control of the ... -
A study of matrimonial institutions in England during the middle ages : background to an understanding of Chaucerian marriage references
(Northern Illinois University, 1954)Chaucer's Canterbury Tales present to the modern reader a bewildering complexity of medieval life without explanation. He wrote for an audience which was certain to understand each detail. They and he shared a common ... -
Foundations of National Socialist Government
(Northern Illinois University, 1954)In January, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. From that day until May, 1945, the Rational Socialist German Workers' Party, of which Hitler was the Leader, held political power in Germany. This regime ... -
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 ...
