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Greek Influence is Shelley
(Creighton University, 1933)
Shelley is deeply Indebted to Greece for his theory of art and philosophy of life. | As light, speeding from a distant planet, was once intercepted by a sufficiently delicate instrument and made to illuminate one of earth's ...
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 ...
The English Gawain
(Creighton University, 1938)
"The history of a people can be read truly only in the light of its ideals." This statement from Constance Rummons’ Ethnic Ideals of the British Isles holds the key to our interest in the people of a past age. Our concern ...
A Study of the Christ Child Society in Omaha
(Creighton University, 1938)
The decade of the 1930’s marks the rise of the professional social worker. During this time, social work, given genuine status by the depression and the entrance of the Federal Government into the business of relief, has ...
The Partial Pressure of Hydrogen Chloride Above its Solutions in Non-Aqueous Solvents. I. Benzene Solutions
(Creighton University, 1938)
According to the Bronsted concept of acids and bases, an acid dissociates only upon cooperation on the part of the solvent. The solvent in terms of this concept is a base, and the products of the acid-base reaction are ...
The Greek Pastures: A Modern Mystery
(Creighton University, 1936)
One of the more interesting dramatic phenomena of the past decade is Marc Connelly’s play, The Green Pastures. The play is unique both in subject and in method. It has for its subject a Southern Negro’s imaginative picture ...
The Tracing of Higher Plane Curves
(Creighton University, 1933)
When one has studied analytic geometry, calculus and kindred branches of mathematics which depend to a certain extent upon the construction of loci he is confronted with the difficulty of determining a fairly accurate ...
The Oil and Land Controversy Between the United States and Mexico
(Creighton University, 1934)
The land problem lies deeply rooted in Mexico's past. Centuries before the Spanish Conquest, the nomads arriving from the North found the arable land already occupied. This led to open warfare for the possession of the ...
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) ...
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 ...