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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. ...
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 ...
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.
A Study of the Accuracy of Colorimetric Determinations of Ascorbic Acid with that of Titration with 2 ,6 - Dichlorophenol-Indolphenol
(Creighton University, 1947)
In the last few years, the knowledge of vitamin C has been greatly increased by research. This research has been done not only in synthesizing vitamin C, and in its chemical properties, but in determining the content of ...
Upon Clamorous Wings: A Study of the Symbolism in the Lyrical and Dramatical Poetry of William Butler Yeats
(Creighton University, 1942)
"Mr. Yeats' poetry," Chesterton once said, "is not only good, but obviously good. It is his point of view that might be dubious or disappointing." Then he proceeded to explain how a writer’s point of view which is in no ...
A Literary and Critical Study of the Natalicia Composed by Saint Paulinus of Lola
(Creighton University, 1944)
In this treatise we shall endeavor to set forth the contribution made by Saint Paulinus of Nola to early Christian poetry. The principal sources at our disposal for a literary study of this author’s works are as follows: ...