Angela Heywood, a nineteenth century Free Lover, radical, labor reformer, anarchist, and ardent supporter of sexual freedom, has been relegated to the shadow of her husband by most historians. Heywood publicly discussed issues such as birth...
Women on the missions in Kansas during 1824-1870 were daring and courageous. Many of them had to travel thousands of miles to arrive at the Kansas mission where they were unsure of how the Indians would receive them and what their new life might...
"Most readings of Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo come from a perspective that
Reed establishes a series of binaries to be dissected. Many of these critics use Jacques
Derrida’s theory of deconstruction because they assert that Reed is simply...
This study was designed to ascertain and record the childhood, educational, and professional experiences of Edgar Francis McNeil. Mr. McNeil always portrayed a sincere interest in each athlete he coached during his thirty seven year career. As a...
The purpose of this study was to compare the rhetoric of two Negro women orators- Sojourner Truth and Frances E. W. Harper as shown by a critical analysis of selected speeches from 1851 to 1875. For this study, two working hypotheses were required....
Recent research dealing with learning disabled children and locus of control have primarily been base don Rotter’s theory of locus of control, in which two basic loci exist: internal or external. Most results have concurred that learning...
The purpose of this study was to compare the attitudes of junior college transfer students toward their junior college and senior college experiences. More specifically, this study was designed to gat her research from transfer students on the...
Epidermal patterns of the widest portion of the leaf blade of seven grass tribes were studied. These included 22 genera and 30 species which were collected in northwest Kansas during 1963. Epidermal patterns were studied mainly by the peel...
The average daily metabolic rate (ADMR) was determined for Peromyscus maniculatus by an open circuit oxygen consumption method and a field method based on food consumption. The ADMR determined by the field method, 0.015 kcal/gm/hr, was not...
The present investigation was designed to study the relationship between the ability to forget unwanted information and age. Hypotheses were evaluated through the use of the Directed Forgetting Paradigm (Bjork, 1972) in which the position of a cue...
The ethical relationship between humans and other animals is most appropriately considered from the perspective of an organic metaphysics, such as that of A. N. Whitehead. Considerations that are critically examined include: (1) the utilitarian...
To maintain a school system that offers a curriculum and extracurricular program that best fits the needs of its students, the Board of Education, U.S.D., 431, Hoisington, Kansas recommended that, in 1974, studies be conducted to determine the...
Fort Hays Kansas St ate College has sponsored t en Summer Mathematics Institutes, including the one held in 1969. These institutes have had financial support from the National Science Foundation and have all been directed by Professor Wilmont...
The author in this thesis prepared a formula investment plan for investing a low-priced stock and ran the study through two separate time periods to determine the feasibility of such a plan as an effective investment tool. Following the completion...
The purpose of this report was to present information in regard to school buildings insurance in Kansas. This study was planned to acquaint administrators, school board members, teachers, and interested parties with possible school buildings...
The Ptychodontidae historically have been classified within the Hybondontoidea, a group of chondrichthyans at an intermediate stage of evolution. A s both the most primitive and most advanced forms of Ptychodus possess skeletal and histological...
The problem of this thesis was a historical study of Teacher Education at Fort Hays Kansas State College, 1902-1964. The historical method of research was used, employing the following materials and methods as tools for research: a review of the...
Hadley Memorial Hospital is a voluntary non-profit corporation operating under the discipline of the Methodist Church. Organized in 1922 as the Hays Methodist Episcopal Hospital, it changed its name to Hays Protestant Hospital prior to opening for...
The purpose of this thesis is to add Sherman County to the list of completed county histories, thus presenting future historians with more evidence with which to prepare a history of the state of Kansas. Since little had previously been written...
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This study is an analysis of current practices of School Psychologists in the area of early childhood/preschool assessment. Surveys were sent by mail to school psychologists who were members of former members of the Kansas Association of...
The purpose of this study was to develop a satisfactory method of mapping plant communities, and to provide data on the vegetation of the communities. The study area was located near Hays, Kansas. Data were collected by using the point transect...
Morphological characteristics including leaf size, shape, color, type of margins, type and degree of pubescence, and stomatal density, and anatomical characteristics including arrangement of tissues, relative size and shape of cells, and types of...
A geomorphic and hydro-geologic investigation of the Saline River Valley in Ellis County, Kansas shows that the bedrock morphology of the paleovalley is very irregular and the morphometry and stratigraphy of the included valley-fill material is...
The preparation of olefins has been practiced for many years, but no regiospecific and stereospecific methods, using vic-diols as starting materials, were investigated until recent years. In this work, the preparation of cyclic sulfites of...
One of the most crucial problems which hinders educational advancement in Thailand is the lack of qualified textbooks. The Ministry of Education of Tha1land has been striving to solve the problem by taking charge of printing the textbooks and...
In 1992, an unusual piece of vesicular material with a recoverable mass of 3 kg was unearthed from a field near the lawn of Granada. Colorado. The material was analyzed using petrological and geochemical methods, which included: bulk and trace...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the characteristics of effective university professors as determined by student ratings. The following independent variables we r e investigated: gender, classification, GPA, major, and student...
The purpose of this study was to research the comparative contributions of arithmetic review and consumer mathematics as contents of a general mathematics course for schools that could offer only one general mathematics course at the ninth grade...
The purpose of this research was: (1) to examine more fully the literature on individualized reading in order to gain a concrete understanding of the issues and problems involved; and (2) to learn some steps which are necessary for developing an...
The first purpose of this basic rhetorically-focused writing module is to aid in classroom instruction. There are no texts for seventh, eighth or ninth grades presently available to carry the student step by step through the writing process....
Seed bank composition and floristic species diversity were examined in the spring seep zone of the marsh ridge community at Haberer’s Salf Marsh in central Kansas. One hundred cores were collected in the spring seep zone on each of the four...
The purpose of this study was to compare the actual duties of selected Western Kansas secondary school administrators with the duties that were advocated by selected authorities in education. This study was limited to secondary-school...
The research investigated how various forms of organizational structures and institutional characteristics affect the efficiency of administering Federal aid programs. Four hypotheses and 12 pos t hoc hypotheses were tested. The measures of...
The purpose of this investigation was to study state- supervised school lunch programs in city schools of Kansas to disclose some of the more common administrative practices and to determine the degree of satisfaction with these same programs as...
The purpose of this study was to determine whether evidence from test results would support the statements that (1) a similar pattern of test results should emerge from a comparison of the results of the scores obtained on the 12 minute run -walk...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate teacher selection for Kansas public high schools. The seven independent variables were: school district size, age of individuals who selected teachers, number of years in teacher selection,...
A pilot study was conducted near Lamar in the sandhills in southeastern Colorado during the summer of 1958. The purpose of the investigation was to determine the species of plants and animals present in the area and the relative abundance of each...
Henry Inman, soldier, newspaperman, social historian, author of articles, short stories and books on frontier life, was a man of eccentric habits and various talents. A man of impulsive action and limited imagination, be completed and published...
The purpose of this study was (1) to determine the procedures employed in identifying intellectually gifted children attending the elementary Catholic schools of the Diocese of Wichita, Kansas; (2) to determine the type or types of programs...
The problem and purpose of this study was to examine the marketing management training programs of eight oil companies and find if these programs contained the types of training thought to be most needed in the area of marketing and sales...
Finding out the post secondary educational pursuits of the 1961 and 1962 Mitchell County high school graduates as well as their opinions concerning the nine areas of study of their high schools was the purpose of this study. A total of 265...
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the concepts of superintendents in selected public school districts in Nebraska regarding their priorities of competencies in educational administration which they believe superintendents should...
The intent of this study was to determine whether right of reply could be used to restore an injured reputation without the lengthy and costly process of litigation. Right of reply was defined as an opportunity to respond to a defamatory report or...
There are many variables involved in the attitudes of adolescents. This thesis focuses on adolescents aged 14 to 19. Whether the adolescent had a conservative or liberal attitude was measured by a questionnaire called the Sexual Attitude Scale. ...
The purpose of this study was (1) to determine the feasibility of organizing and adopting shared time programs to secure additional instruction and services for individual students of public and nonpublic schools; (2) to determine the procedures...
The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA, 1997) states that students with disabilities should be served in the least restrictive environmental possible. This legislation has caused an increased interest in obtaining more information on how to...
The purpose of this study was to compare the importance of selected morale building factors as indicated by ninety teachers. The teachers were attending Fort Hays Kansas State College during the summer of 1968 and were divided into the following...
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate and compare perceptions of behaviors desirable to elementary science teachers. A related purpose to this study was to investigate the relationship between these perceived behaviors and the...
During the summer of 1958, a search was conducted for specimens of algae which could be used in a growth study. Many specimens were collected from ponds and streams in western Kansas and were cultured under conditions of intense sunlight and high...
The purpose of the research was to investigate the decision process at the executive or school superintendent level in education. The total sample size was 150 superintendents randomly selected from a list supplied by the State Department of...
The scientific study of divorce is still in its initial stages. Sociologists have studied the problem and have made great progress in understanding it. Fiction writers, in presenting the problem through the more easily accessible method of the...
It was the intent of the writer to present the pro and con attitudes on the controversial question: "Why should we have fair trade legislation in the United States?" In order to present these attitudes, it was necessary to study the fair trade laws...
The conglomerate merger is one of the most important methods of business combination in use today. A conglomerate merger provides an avenue for today's business and industrial leaders to develop dynamic and operational business empires just as the...
The purpose of this study is to present the formation and organizational aspects of a new insurance company in Kansas. It is during these initial years that a new company experiences considerable difficulty. Problems such as personnel selection,...
It was the purpose of this study to determine the preferences of mothers as to course content in all course areas: to determine the preferences of daughters as to course content in four course areas: to compare the preferences of mothers and...
Statement of the problem: The problem was to determine whether the unit shop or the exploratory shop in the eight grade had been the more influential on decisions of boys to enroll in ninth and tenth grade industrial arts courses.
Methods and...
I. Purpose of Study: The purpose of this study was to evaluate, on the basis of student opinion: 1. The outstanding characteristics of the effective science teacher. 2. Student preference as to instructional procedures. 3. The attitudes of students...
This study was initiated to study the philosophy, organization, and staffing of some selected middle schools in the states of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Colorado, from lists of exemplary middle schools supplied by the respective State...
The primary intention of this study was to investigate and determine the concepts of the presidents of the boards in one hundred selected school districts in Nebraska regarding their priorities of competencies that they seek in their evaluation and...
The Problem: The major purpose of this study was to analyze the status of extension of lines of credit by Kansas banks. The examination involved a study of the extent to which banks granted lines of credit, how loan policies and practices...
A compound has been isolated from the acid catalyzed ring closure of 2, 2’-dihydroxychalcone. From the physical properties and the infrared and ultraviolet visible spectra, this green compound is assumed to be the cis form of 2,...
This study consisted of an analysis of the responsibilities of the public school business manager in selected school districts in central Kansas. Twelve school business managers were interviewed in the spring of 1975 and were asked to respond to...
The Claisen-Scn.idt condensation has been evaluated for the synthesis of 21-hydroxychalcones. Previous methods, utilizing this condensation for synthesis, have been found to have any undesirable features. To eliminate these features and thus to...
This study was an attempt to determine soil and vegetative differences in pastures on upland and slope sites caused by different utilization rates in the past year. Soil and vegetative differences were determined with reference to the following...
The purpose of this study was to compare the relative importance that teachers and administrators place on selected statements relating to teaching. An inventory was developed containing forty-one statements relating to selected abstracts of...
In this study, the problem was to predict enrollments at Fort Hays Kansas State College from 1963 to 1970, inclusive, so as to aid in preparing for future enrollments and to provide useful information for succeeding studies of this nature. The main...
The problem presented in this paper is the development and formulation of an investment formula plan for common stocks in the low price ranges which will eliminate human judgments in the buying and selling of stocks, and which will enable the...
The accounting profession is undergoing a change in services offered to clients. Accountants are gradually re-entering the field of management services and are drawing criticism for their actions. Critics doubt the competence of the accountants in...
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between reading disability and certain demographic characteristics of the elementary school referral population of the Fort Hays Reading Service Center.
The primary question...
This thesis contains the results of three surveys which were made to try to determine the most important courses in the major field of economics, general business, and accounting. These surveys were conducted from college catalogues, industry, and...
This survey attempted to measure evaluative, cognitive, and predicted behavioral components of the attitudes of Fort Hays Kansas State College students towards the High Plains Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center, the Psychological Service...
This study was designed to survey Kansas authors, either by birth or residence who have had recent books published for children or adolescents. A summary of each author's work was included with a biographical sketch. In the biographical sketch of...
Shorebirds were studied in Ellis County, Kansas from 22 March to 15 November, 1968. Objectives of the study were to: 1) determine the relative frequency and migration peaks and periods of charadriiform birds and, 2) investigate factors relating to...
The purpose of this study was to determine the adequacy of phonics in our reading programs by analyzing and comparing the phonics programs of eleven of the most widely used basal readers.
King, Sora, and Virginia Rails were studied at 10 different marshes in Kansas in 1975. Populations of these three species were studied by using tape-recorded calls during the period 27 March through 10 June. Dates of first calling and peak calling...
The Problem: This study was concerned with the identification of the services provided by elementary school counselors in Kansas during the 1966-67 school year.
Procedure: Books, Periodicals, and other publications were reviewed to provide...
This survey of theme and creative writing in secondary schools was written to aid composition teachers. It consists of a compilation of errors made most often by high school students and offers methods to remedy the errors. Seven errors found to...
The problem in this investigation is to discover teacher reaction to various in- service educati0n practices and techniques utilized by administrators and teachers in the development of in-service education programs in the elementary schools of...
The purpose of the present study was to replicate and expand on a study conducted by Feltz (1980). A path analytic procedure was utilized to evaluate the effectiveness of three theoretical models (an anxiety-based, Bandura, and Feltz) in...
The present study was conducted in order to evaluate abbreviated forms of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence for a kindergarten population. Full scale WPPSIs were administered to 24 kindergarten students and the protocol were...
The purpose of this investigation was to identify academic variables, both before and during the nursing program, that predicted the practical nursing student’s success in educational and licensure processes.
The predictor variables were (a)...
Researchers are only recently beginning to look at the effects of acculturation on the individual. Most or the research in this area has largely focused on the effects of acculturation on a group of people. We are seeing a dramatic increase in the...
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Most studies on manipulating recovery variables during interval exercise have focused primarily on aerobic training and performances. It was the purpose of this study to investigate the effects of active versus passive recovery on physical...
Activity of small mammals in relation to time of day, various weather conditions, and moonlight was studied during July, August, September, and October, 1964, in a relict area located 1.5 miles southwest of Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. The activity...
Built in 1904, this was the first building on campus. It was known as the Administration Building or the Academic Building; named Picken Hall on May 28, 1909 in honor of the first administrator of the campus, Principal William S. Picken. This...
Picken Hall; Western Branch of the Kansas State Normal School
An age and growth study was made of 685 white bass, Morone chrysops (Rafinesque), collected from Cedar Bluff Reservoir during 1968 through 1970. The body scale relationship was linear with an intercept of 45.8753 in total length. The length-weight...
Although the concept of alienation is not new in American literature, it is a theme which has appeared with growing frequency and intensity in the past two decades. Among the many contemporary writers to deal with the problem of alienation, J.D....
This study was a factor analytic exploration of responses of psychiatric inpatients to five samples of items taken from a 177-Item Fear Survey Schedule developed by compiling items from all existing fear inventories. The 177-Item FSS was...
The purpose of this investigation was to study and determine types of objectives selected by teachers of beginning speech courses in Western Kansas high schools and to compare these selections with those of certain college speech instructors.
/ An...
PURPOSE: The major purposes of this study were to (1) study the reliability of the McDonald Soccer Skill Test, (2) set up norms at Brooks Junior High School for the McDonald Soccer Skill Test, and (3) set up a grading scale that would be used after...
The purposes of this thesis are to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the severance tax, to study the methods of administering the severance tax and to examine the severance tax history of Kansas.
The arguments favoring a severance tax are...
The purpose in writing this thesis was to study the trends in the Colorado ski industry. The thesis explores the participant characteristics, size of the industry, projected growth and Colorado business firms affected by the ski industry. The...
Big bluestem (Andropogon gerardi), side-oats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula) and blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) represent a tall, mid and short grass type of vegetation respectively, and can typically be found growing in the mixed prairie. It was...
This thesis represents an annotated plant list for a 30,000 acre tract of land locate din the northern part of Osage county, Oklahoma, and the very southern extremities of Cowley and Chautauqua counties, Kansas. This area lies in the True Prairie...
Most people would agree that building good character is essential to the development of American’s youth. However, building character has become a difficult task to perform because children today are growing up in a world where they must...
PURPOSE: It was the purpose of this study to perform an item analysis on a women's physical education test concerning speed-a-way. The analysis will determine the difficulty and discrimination of each individual item in the test. From this analysis...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Chicago Archdiocesan Reading Program from an academic, social and psychological viewpoint over a three-year period, 1962- 1964. The investigation was limited to the seventh and...
