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Mental and Emotional Effects of the Depression
(Creighton University, 1935)
The problem of this thesis is to study the mental and emotional effects of the present economic depression as observed in four hundred federal relief cases selected from the case record files of the Douglas County (Omaha) ...
Contributions to the Chemistry of Vitamin A: A Critical Study of the Antimony Trichloride Reaction
(Creighton University, 1933)
The chemical study of vitamin A dates "back to the work of Hopkins. As early as 1906, he had determined and reported that, "no animal can live upon a mixture of pure protein, fat, and carbohydrate and even when the necessary ...
The Value of Classical Allusions in Six of Milton’s Minor Poems (L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Cornus, Lycldas, Samson Agonistes, and Arcades)
(Creighton University, 1933)
Classical allusions form so integral a part of Milton's poetry that one can scarcely conceive of the poems without them. Deprived of these allusions, the poetry would lose a large part of its charm; certainly it would lose ...
A Survey of Kansas Poetry
(Creighton University, 1937)
This work endeavors to present precisely what the title of the thesis suggests — A Survey of Kansas Poetry. In choosing the subject for this thesis, the writer was largely influenced by the fact that her early life was ...
Father Anastasius Czech and the Poles of Nebraska
(Creighton University, 1931)
To write the history of the Polish settlements of Nebraska with a view to showing how a group of Europeans with all their foreign characteristics, through honest effort moved by the spirit of heroic courage to brave the ...
Catholic Poles in Omaha
(Creighton University, 1935)
The history of Polish immigration may be divided into three periods: that before 1850, that from 1850 to 1880, and that since 1880. The first is marked by no considerable influx, but by scattered individuals rescued from ...
The Slaveholders, the Mexican Liberals, and the Texan Revolution
(Creighton University, 1939)
The revolt of Texas from Mexico and its subsequent annexation to the United States produced a conflict of opinion. Anti-slaveryites of all degrees united against acceptance of the new republic either in the family of nations ...
The Significance of Moral Values in the Poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson
(Creighton University, 1939)
The purpose of this thesis is to show that the validity and excellence of Edwin Arlington Robinson's poetry is due chiefly to three characteristics: First, the poet's apparent realization of the beauty of right moral ...
Plato's Influence Upon Justin Martyr as Shown in the Dialog with Trypho
(Creighton University, 1935)
Statement of the Thesis|1. Conversion of Justin marked a new era in gospel history because the intellectual enemies of the faith were met.|2. Justin's knowledge of Plato helped him to encounter the philosophers of the ...
Satire in Chaucer
(Creighton University, 1936)
Was Chaucer a satirist? Or did he merely lapse into the satiric occasionally and almost unconsciously? Had he moments when his "high seriousness" was whipped into the indignation of a true satirist by the existing evils ...