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The Quebec Act
(Creighton University, 1930)
The purpose of this thesis on the Quebec Act is to show that Religious Intolerance played an important role not only in the opposition manifested toward the act in England and America hut also in the events that brought ...
The Life and Editorials of C.P. Mooney
(Creighton University, 1932)
In choosing a subject for original investigation, the writer being a native Memphian, who grew from childhood during the years of C.P.J. Mooney's editorship of the Commercial Appeal, and who felt the steady growth of the ...
The Conflict Between Thomas Becket and Henry II
(Creighton University, 1930)
One of the most conspicuous and familiar objects in the neighborhood of London is the high hill and pointed spire of Harrow. Guided by this landmark, two horsemen in the year 1143 or thereabouts made their way from London ...
Matthew Arnold’s "Magic Qualities in Celtic Literature" Applied to Poetry of Mr. Padraic Colum
(Creighton University, 1937)
A promising development,in recent literature is a movement known as the Irish Literary Revival. Begun in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, this movement progressed rapidly and has already made notable contributions ...
Movements of the United States Toward World Disarmament
(Creighton University, 1934)
The World War in its causes and in its effects has placed upon nations the necessity of analyzing the problems of war itself. The effort to eliminate the evils of war from international dealings has become a movement not ...
St. Augustine's Idea of Monasticism as Set Forth in his Correspondence
(Creighton University, 1931)
The purpose of this dissertation is to discover, from Augustine's own words, as expressed in his letters, as much as may he learned from direct statements about his views on the subjects of monasticism and the monastic ...
Partial Pressure of Hydrogen Chloride Above its Solutions in Non-aqueous Solvents. II Nitrobenzene Solutions
(Creighton University, 1938)
It has been pointed out by Rodebush and Ewart and in the first paper of this series that the vapor pressure of a volatile acid solute like hydrogen chloride provides a measure of the basicity of the solvent. The importance ...
Martin Luther's Doctrine of Justification and Salvation
(Creighton University, 1930)
Man is born of woman. It is she who watches over and cares for him during his tender years. It is she who first teaches him to commend himself to his Maker. In fact, it is she who is the dominating influence of his early ...
Realism in the Medieval Mystery Plays
(Creighton University, 1933)
An intensive study and analysis of some of the medieval mystery plays—remnants of the York, Townley, Coventry, and Chester Cycles—will inevitably show that realism was very prevalent in the literature of the fourteenth ...
Theodoret and the Greek Pagan Writers
(Creighton University, 1932-08-01)
The object of this thesis, entitled "Theodoret and the Greek Pagan Writers," has been to determine how much Theodoret, a Christian writer of the fourth and fifth centuries, knew about the Greek pagan writers in so far as ...