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Shakespeare's Concept of Heaven
(Creighton University, 1949)
Shakespeare had his favorite words. One of them was "heaven." This is evidenced in Bartlett’s Concordance to Shakespeare, which lists three hundred nine quotations containing "heaven." It is enlightening to read these ...
Children's Fears
(Creighton University, 1948)
Only a foolish man is not afraid. The wise man realizes that the emotion of fear serves a very important part in the pattern of his life. It will always be present, thus, it is to his advantage to learn to adjust to it. ...
A Dramatic Analysis of Shakespeare’s Fourth Acts
(Creighton University, 1949)
The Renaissance with its enthusiasm for all things classical made a profound Impression on the literature of England. This is especially true in regard to drama. Plautus, Terence, and Seneca came to be studied in the English ...
Methods of Teaching Shakespeare in High School
(Creighton University, 1946)
Today some schools do not include in their curricula the plays of Shakespeare; but we who know the wholeheartedness and wholesomeness of Shakespeare to satisfy man in all walks of life cannot but deplore this omission. Are ...
Postwar Secondary Business Education
(Creighton University, 1947)
If business education is to maintain a position of dignity and permanency in the field of secondary education, if it is to perform its essential role in the readjustment period following World War II, and fulfill its promise ...
The European Influence Upon a Typical American: Mark Twain
(Creighton University, 1947)
As a reader fingers the pages of a hook, his mind searches for the definite purpose for which the work was written. One may not always realize that behind this purpose lies a field of influence which prompted the author ...
The Diplomatic Career of Silas Deane
(Creighton University, 1946)
In March 1776, prior to the Declaration of Independence, the Secret Committee of Correspondence sent Silas Deane to France as commercial agent to secure aid for the Colonies. After July 4, 1776, he was appointed to serve ...
John Ruskin as Slade Professor of Art at Oxford University
(Creighton University, 1946)
Problem: During his Professorship, Ruskin at Oxford inaugurated his program of socialized Art, which he later developed broadly, and for which he is known in history. |From birth to manhood, John Ruskin possessed an animating ...
Froude and Wilson on Carlyle — A Contrast
(Creighton University, 1945)
"Man is perennially interesting to man; nay, if we look strictly to it, there is nothing else interesting." The evident truth of this statement is proved by the ineffable delight which is afforded to man in the reading of ...
The Anglo-American: Isthmian Diplomacy 1840-1850
(Creighton University, 1947)
Time shapes the destinies of men while the destinies of nations rise and fall in the tides of diplomacy. Oftentimes to avoid shipwreck in tempestuous undulations, the ship of state drops anchor in less resistant waters, ...