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The Satire of Jane Austen
(Creighton University, 1931)
Among the novelists of the closing decades of the eighteenth century and opening nineteenth is one who holds high rank among the writers of comedy. Jane Austen sweetened the world's fiction by her contributions, while her ...
The Participation of the United States in the Algeciras Conference of 1906
(Creighton University, 1938)
This thesis is not intended to constitute a treatise of the Algeciras Conference, but to relate only that part taken by the United States in the conference. However, in presenting this material it has been thought necessary ...
Female Types in Literary History
(Creighton University, 1939)
Constancy has never been considered one of the attributes of woman, which makes it entirely proper that heroines should have altered their characters in fiction almost as often as they have changed their styles in dress; ...
The Creighton Student-Worker: A Study of Fifty Students Who are Working their Way Through the Creighton College of Arts and Sciences
(Creighton University, 1939)
A number of popular fallacies have clustered about the problem of student employment. Many offer criticisms that the students who work are deprived of time for diversion, that they are forced to neglect their lessons, and ...
Conformal Representation
(Creighton University, 1932)
The cartographer, faced with the problem of mapping one surface on another surface or on a plane, may select one of two alternative methods if he wishes his representation to be mathematically accurate. He may represent ...
A New Type of Spanish Manual, for Use in Secondary Schools, Featuring Original Material in the Form of Letters, Sales Talks, Advertisements and Specifications
(Creighton University, 1931)
It is only in recent times that Spanish has taken its place properly alongside of French and German. In the year 1766 Paul Fook gave at Harvard the first lesson in Spanish ever given in the United States. However, the real ...
Francesca Da Rimini on the Stage or a Study of the Paolo and Francesca Theme as Treated by George Henry Baker, Stephen Phillips, and Gabriele d'Annunzio.
(Creighton University, 1932)
It is the purpose of this thesis to look into the history and tradition of the Francesca tragedy, and to note the effect of each on Baker, Phillips, and d‘Annunzio; to discuss the approach of the authors to their theme and ...
The Social Views of Ruskin
(Creighton University, 1931)
To the more thoughtful Buskin is, assuredly, a problem in the literary history of the I9th century in England. Scoffed at and rejected by the reading public, clamored for and listened to breathlessly by people of intellectual ...
Effect of Phenol on the System Quinoline Water
(Creighton University, 1932)
For ten years after the brilliant deduction of the phase rule in 1874 by Willard Gibbs at Yale the work lay buried in the archives of the Connecticut Academy of Science, undisturbed and uninterpreted. It was not until 1884 ...
A Course in Mental Hygiene for Nurses
(Creighton University, 1935)
Mental Hygiene or Preventive Psychology is that science that aims not only to prevent nervous and mental disorders, to conserve and enrich mental life, hut also to promote to the optimum the health, happiness, efficiency ...