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Philip Freneau: His Relation to the Romantic Movement
(Creighton University, 1941)
The slow working of time has reversed many a verdict once rendered against a reputation, literary or otherwise, relegating to a minor place or even to oblivion many a personage famous in his own day, raising many another ...
The English Elements in the Italian Plays of Shakespeare
(Creighton University, 1949)
This thesis is the result of a special interest aroused in the reading of the continental plays of Shakespeare during the course of a study of all his plays. The impression received from the mere reading was that the ...
Oscar Wilde's Contribution to the Comedy of Manners
(Creighton University, 1940)
The present study attempts to trace the growth and the development of the comedy of manners through its various phases, up to about 1900. It will especially endeavor to bring together findings concerning the contributions ...
Greek Elements in John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea
(Creighton University, 1941)
John Millington Synge’s Riders to the Sea is a tragedy -- the tragedy of a whole people earning their living upon the surging breakers, battling against the monstrous waves in their small curaghs, with dark fate ever ...
The Partial Pressure of Hydrogen Chloride Above its Solutions in Non-Aqueous Solvents, in Monohalobenzene Solutions
(Creighton University, 1940)
Some of the roost important reactions of chemistry involve substances, not in the pure state, but in solution. Consequently, generalizations, whereby the behavior of substances in solution may be predicted, are of the ...
The Partial Pressure of Hydrogen Chloride Above its Solutions in BB Dichloroethyl Ether and Anisole and the Calculation of the Heat and Entropy of Solution
(Creighton University, 1941)
Early attempts to explain phenomena associated with some solutions, such as electrical conductance, were handicaped by the overemphasis of the Arrhenius theory as well as by a lack of data concerning non-aqueous solutions. ...
Andrew Johnson: His Relationships with Abraham Lincoln
(Creighton University, 1949)
If "environment wields the mightiest mallet that hammers out the status of our souls," there must be in the being of every man a tiny mallet which shapes his individuality. Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln sprang from ...
A Legislative History of the Forfeiture of Railroad Land Grants, 1867-1894
(Creighton University, 1948)
The first important grant to aid in the construction of railroads was a grant to Illinois, Mississippi and Alabama In aid of the Illinois Central and Mobile and Ohio railroads. This grant was of especial importance not ...
An Evaluation of Prognostic Devices for College English, Mathematics, and General Scholastic Achievement
(Creighton University, 1947)
Since 1939 The Creighton University has been administering a series of examinations to applicants for admission to the University. The main purpose for administering these examinations is to procure information to supplement ...
Frontier Humor In Huckleberry Finn
(Creighton University, 1947)
An investigation to determine how the influence of a frontier community upon the boy Samuel Clemens accounts for the universally acceptable elements of humor in the semi-autobiographical novel, Huckleberry Finn.