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Archival Master’s Theses from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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1940
Inheritance and Linkage Relations of Factors for Plant Height and Spike Density in a Cross between Hordeum deficiens nudideficiens and Club Mariout, Orrin J. Webster
The Life of the Pioneer Woman on the Kansas-Nebraska Frontier, Valeda Katharine Wood
1939
An Analysis of Mathematics Offerings in Selected Junior Colleges of the North Central Territory, Lorella Ahern
A Critical Evaluation of Current Criticisms of Professional Education, Fred Edmin Alder
The Effect of Benzedrine Sulfate on Syllogistic Reasoning, T. Gaylord Andrews
The Influence of the Panama Canal on Currents of Commerce, Phyllis Jean Armstrong
A Follow-Up Study of the Alumni of Nelson, Nebraska High School of the Years 1931-37, Earl A. Arnold
The Nebraska Public High School Principal, George W. Baldwin
Gothic Machinery in Representative Works by Poe and Hawthorne, Margaret Baldwin
Studies of the Meyer Reaction and the Hydrogenation of Para Hydroxyphenylarsonic Acid, Emmett Raymond Barnum
The Significance of Size and Shape In Commercial Grades of Hybrid Seed Corn, Irwin Darrell Bauder
A Five-Year School Interpretation Program in a Small Nebraska Community, Orrin A. Bell
A Study of the Differences in Degree of Sensitivity to Personal Appearance among Selected Groups of Women, Lillian Elizabeth Brehm
Inheritance of Winterhardiness, Growth Habit, and Earliness in Crosses between Early Blackhull, Minhardi, and Hope Wheats, Ronald W. Carpenter
Reaction Time as a Criterion of Attention Value of Color in Advertising, Edwin Ewart
A Study of Methods of Making Neufchatel and Cream Cheese to Increase the Keeping Quality, Frederick Porter Howard
Forestation in Nebraska, Clarence Arthur Johnson
Reciprocity in the Payment of Tuition by Missouri and Iowa, Fred Lincoln Johnson
Modern Treatments of Medieval Narrative Favorites, Laura Myers Johnson
The Administrative Handbook, P. T. Johnson
1938
A Projected Building Program for the Friend Public Schools, Hiram Earl Alexander
Scouting in Nebraska Secondary Schools, Leon W. Ashton
Arsenicals of Peonol, Clarence Kenneth Banks
The Effects of Nebraska Agriculture of the Tariff on Ten Selected Farm Products, Robert Lee Berger
The Effect of Manure, Commercial Fertilizers, and Lime on Some of the Physical Properties of Marshall Clay Loam, Heavy Subsoil Phase., B. Rodney Bertramson
Varietal Photoperiodism in Sorghum, Robert Leavitt Cushing
A History of the Czechs in Knox County, Nebraska, Joseph John Van Hoff
Comparison of Field and Controlled Freezing Data as a Measure of the Cold Resistance of Winter Wheats, Roland C. Weibel
Studies on Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy I. Dietary Factors, II. Fibrosis and Lipomatosis of Tissues, Violet Myrtle Wilder
1937
A Combination Music-Auditorium-Gymnasium-Room, Clayton Henry Adee
The Inheritance of Milk and Butterfat Production in University of Nebraska Holstein-Friesian Cattle, Graydon William Brandt
Bindweed Eradication Practices and Cost, Jerome Valentine Srb
Segregation of Some Quantitative Characters in a Baart X Shot (Triticum sphaerococcum) Wheat Cross, Gilbert Theodore Webster
Syntheses in the Thiophene Series, Alfred William Weitkamp
1936
Measuring the Aptitude of Keyboard Operators, Dorothy May Abbott
A Study of Nebraska School Lands, Thomas Henry Adams
Basic Materials for Promoting an Understanding of the Purposes of Christian Education, Leslie Vincent Barnes
A Study of the Production of Native Grass Seed in Certain Subirrigated Meadows of Holt County, Nebraska, Elver M. Hodges
A Compilation and Evaluation of Course of Study Materials for Ninth Grade General Science, Warren Anthony McMullen
1935
A Study of the Statements of Psychological Nature Found in Ten Text Books in Public Speaking, LeRoy Allison
The Immigrant as Revealed in the Works of O. E. Rølvaag, Clara Amalia Johnson
Course Offerings in the Nebraska High Schools 1899-1935, Grace Martin Johnson
1934
Trends of Vocational Education in the Philippine Islands as Revealed by Reports of the Director of Education, Rosario Tolentino Agliam
English Clerical Types in George Eliot’s Novels, Nelle Osborn Akert
Automatic Stokers and Natural Gas in School Heating, Myron Anderson
The Design and Social Problems Involved in the Building of Small Prairie Churches, Gordon Beach Wyland
1933
Trends in the Teaching of History as Revealed by Some Major Committees, Louise Adams
A Survey of Objectives, Methods, and Subject Material for Teaching Chemistry, As Revealed in the Journal of Chemical Education from 1924 to 1932, Francis Theodore Alabaster
Johnson’s Ideal of Poetry, Principally in The Lives, Marjorie Albert
Motivation of the Teaching of High School Mathematics, Ellen V. Anderson
Bliss Carman as a Poet, Edith Fern Andrews
Evidences of the Evolution of a Philosophy of Educational Supervision, Rex D. Bailey
A Study of the Types of Small Houses Suitable for Nebraska, Klyte Burt
The Influence of the Methyl Group in the Synthesis of δ-Ketonic Acids as Shown in the Condensation of 4-Methyl-ω-Benzalacetophenone with Various Phenyl Acetate Derivatives, W. Sherman Gillam
The Effect of the Digestive Tract of Farm Animals and the Fermentation of Manures upon the Viability of Certain Weed Seeds, George William Harmon
The Relation of the Reports of Stated Committees to the Curriculum Lag in English in the Secondary Schools, Verne D. Jones
The Organization of the Agricultural Evening School, V. J. Morford
A List of Native and Naturalized Nebraska Grasses with Keys for Their Identification, Laurence C. Newell
1932
Character Forming Elements in Silas Marner, Florence Evelyn Ayton
The Relation of Outside Scientific Reading to the Progress of Pupils in General Science, Elven K. Bauman
Row Spacing Influence upon Plant Characters of Corn, Boyd Faulkner
A Study of Bunt Resistance and Its Inheritance in Winter Wheat, N. E. Jodon
Economies Resulting from the Organization of Cooperative School Areas, Gerald A. Jones
1931
Activities of Honor Students, Bertha Luella Adamson
School Reports to Parents from the Parents’ Point of View, Percy A. Adams
A Comparison of the Efficiency of School Systems In Relation to the Tenure of the Superintendents, Frederic Stanton Archerd
Teacher Intervisitation as a Method of Supervision in the Smaller School System, Emory A. Austin
Soil Management Studies in Furnas County, Nebraska, Lindsey A. Brown
1930
Pupils’ Interests in Science as Manifested by the Questions They Ask, Ineze M. Kidder Boschult
The Variability of Certain Plant Characters in Corn as Affected by Diplodia Zeae and Seed Treatment, Joseph Oliver Culbertson
The Effect of Pollen Source on the Yield of Corn, Warren H. Leonard
A Soil Improvement Program for Cass County, Nebraska, Leroy Francis Snipes
1929
A Study of Perennial Weeds in York County, Nebraska, Ross Lyle Clark
A Study of the Oxidation of d-Glucose with Air in a Saturated Solution of Barium Hydroxide, Clyde Wilson Eddy
Some Economic Phases of Abortion in Dairy Cattle, Franklin Morgan
1928
An Evaluation of the Novels of Edward Morgan Forster, Helen Fern Baker
Pupil Participation in Grading Spelling Papers, Lucy Merril Bayles
The Value of the Photograph in the Selection of Teachers, Walter B. Johns
The Nitrate Factor in Wheat Production, Emrys Gordon Jones
The Relation of Nutritional Conditions of Wheat to the Occurrence of Yellow Berry, and to the Protein Content of the Grain, Albert Larsen
An Anthology of American Verse Edited with Reference to Geography, Biography, Explanatory Notes, and Bibliography of Verse, Rebecca Fay Southwell
A Study of Freshman Student Achievement in the School of Fine Arts in the University of Nebraska, Elizabeth Margaret Tierney
1927
Uniformity of Procedure in Child Accounting, Joshua Hamilton Adee
Professional Training, Educational Experience and Salary of Nebraska County Superintendents, J.T. Anderson
The Pictorial Elements in the Faerie Queene, Hazel A. Bowers
1926
The Influence of Railway Advertising upon the Settlement of Nebraska, Helen Marie Anderson
The Status of the Science Teacher in Nebraska High Schools, Cecil W. Shankel
The Inheritance of Awns in Certain Winter Wheat Crosses and Their Relation to Certain Factors Determining Yield, G. F. Sprague
The Restoration of Organic Matter in Soil, Marcus D. Weldon
1925
A Study of d-Gulonic and d-Idonic Lactones, Joel LeMoyne Burkitt
1924
The Genetic Inheritance of Some Vegative Characters in Pure Lines of Corn, Harvey James Cottle
1923
Factors that Affect the Quality and Curing of Alfalfa Hay, Arthur Anderson
The Immediate Effect of Foreign Pollen upon the Kernel Development of Commercial Varieties of Corn, Glen Charles Cook
1917
Recreation for All in the High School thru Better Organization and Supervision, Irvin Oda Ash
1904
A Study of the Negro in Lincoln, Mary E. Davies and Genevieve Marsh