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Story of Freer, Texas: the historical background for the educational system
No full textIt has been the purpose of the author in the preparation of this thesis to create within the minds of the children a love for their community and to stimulate a desire to study carefully and thoughtfully its history. The history of Freer, with its sacrifices and remarkable achievements, offers splendid opportunity for the teaching of natural history and geography. Children very soon receive the lesson that brave hearts, through self-denial and diligence, overcome discouragements and conquer the adversities of nature
A program of health education for Southgate Elementary School, Corpus Christi
No full textA. The problem
Southgate Elementary School is located in the center of a district in which the population is composed predominantly of Spanish-culture people of low economic condition. For four years the school was Spanish-culture entirely. In 1938 it was open to Anglo-culture pupils but this culture comprises only about five per cent of the school population in 1940
The life and works of Dr. Lowell Mason, the father of public school music
No full textLowell Mason is now recognized as the founder of certain methods of instruction in the field of music education which subsequently became the basis for the present day school music curriculum. His efforts to introduce music instruction to the schools of Boston occupied all of his thoughts and energy for a period over thirteen years. His interest in bringing about a general upward trend in the musical culture of the entire nation was a life-long one, and for over sixty years he campaigned for this musical improvement
Studies in Opuntia
No full textWhen the Europeans migrated to America, they found cacti of the genus Opuntia growing from Massachusetts to British Columbia south to the Strait of Magellan (1). From the rocky hilltops across level grasslands and down to the edge of salt water bays and inlets it grew, profusely in rich soil and sparsely in poor soil. Regarded by some as a curiosity, by others as a host for cochineal bug hence as a source of cochineal dye, and by still other as forage and food as the natives were using it, it was carried to all parts of the world. In countries bordering the Mediterranean, it was introduced as the Berbery fig. In Texas and Mexico it is called nopal, or nopalito, and the fruit is referred to tuna
The Federal school-lunch program in Cameron County, Texas
No full textThe study of the school-lunch program being provided by Federal funds in the schools of Cameron County was first suggested to the author as a result of observation of many children in his own school who came all day without lunch. This condition led to the investigation of the operation of such program, which culminated in its being installed in that school in the beginning of the school year 1940-1941
Ellen Glasgow and social democracy
No full textThe South has always always been a happy ground for writers. It was the only part of the country to create an aristocratic leisure class and a culture; likewise it was the only part of the country to have a catastrophe such as Civil War. Therefore, Southern writers have sought to recover and record the pre-war civilization; to write of particular view of war between the states; and to portray the slow decline of its civilization in the lethargic generations since the war. These same writers have shown also the incursion of the factory systems with its social and economic problems. The contrast between the glamourous past and the ugly present has long been a theme subject for southern writers. Because of these ideas, Southern Literature has been called romantic and not realistic; and sentimental rather than naturalistic. Many older writers were faithful to the early traditions like Stark Young in So Red The Rose which is a story of aristocratic plantation life in the Old South
The history of Jim Wells County
No full textThe Geography of Jim Wells County Location and Boundaries. Jim Wells County is situated in the Gulf Coastal region of Texas, approximately thirty-six miles from Corpus Christi Bay, at its nearest point. It is bordered on the east by Nueces and Kleberg counties, on the North by Live Oak County and the Nueces River, on the west by Duval County, and on the South by Brooks County. The county is about sixty miles long and about twenty miles wide
The Danes in Wharton County
No full textAfter teaching Danish children for four years the writer observes that they are more punctual in attendance then other nationalities of the same county. Some other nationalities seem to consider that their children's help in the agricultural fields is more important than is their regular attendance. There may be such differences among other Wharton County population in their attitude towards schooling. If so, these differences need further study, and such research might follow pattern employed in this paper
A history of the production of fruits and vegetables for United States troops in New Caledonia, World War II
No full textIt has been stated by eminent military authority that "An army fights on its stomach". During World War II there were many thousands of United States Army troops stationed on New Caledonia and adjacent islands. The greatest distance separating these islands from sources of fresh fruits, which were necessary in the diet as well as for morale of the troops, presented the Army Quartermaster with a serious problem. However the Foreign Economic Administration came forward with an answer by setting up facilities for the production and distribution of these necessary fruits and vegetables in cooperation with the farmers of New Caledonia
Methods of correcting phosphorus deficiencies in range cattle in South Texas
No full textThrough the generations and centuries, man has wrought a wonderful accomplishment in the process of domesticating animals. During the course of bending the animals to perform more efficiently in order that they might fit into man's pattern of economy and luxury, the animals often were misplaced in their environment thus presented complex problems. Some of these problems were not easily solved; others were solved readily and with little effort