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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. ...
The Classic Ideals in Gorboduc: A Study in the Aristotelian Principles that Seneca Gave to the First English Tragedy
(Creighton University, 1949)
"One cannot understand Elizabethan drama without grasping the spirit of the Renaissance." Such a statement gives at least some authority to the manner of' presentation that has been adopted with this study of' the first ...
The Development and Curricular Organization of Nebraska Schools Conducted by the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, Atchison, Kansas
(Creighton University, 1949)
Montecassino lifting itself from the ruins and rubble of World War II is symbolic of the Benedictine spirit that has come down through fourteen centuries and that shall continue to function in the great work of the Church ...
Saint Ambrose and the Temporal Powers as Shown in His Letters
(Creighton University, 1947)
From the beginnings of Christianity there have been disputes between temporal and spiritual powers. This thesis attempts to give a brief outline in Chapter Two of the position of the Church from her origin until the fourth ...
Nebraska During the Civil War (1861 - 1867)
(Creighton University, 1948)
The purpose of this investigation is to show how the Nebraska Territory and its people between 1861 and 1867 were affected by the civil War and the political and economic issues of the period. Attitudes and reactions on ...
Curriculum of Cathedral High School Evaluated by Follow-Up Study of Graduates 1939-1948
(Creighton University, 1949)
One or the major problems of the schools of our country is the revision of the curriculum. The educational institutions must keep abreast with the changing social order; they must provide adequate training for effective ...
What the Elementary School can do for the Problem Child
(Creighton University, 1946)
Until recently, when a child was referred to as a Problem Child, immediately the thought came to mind, a discipline case; an incorrigible; a perverse or maladjusted child. However, educators of today use interchangeably ...