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Serge Jaroff and His Don Cossack Choir: Two Rare Scores at the University of North Texas Music Library

Description: This narrative gives details on Serge Jaroff's Don Cossack Choir, which first began in a Turkish concentration camp in 1921. The author highlights the how the choir's music has personally affected her, while also giving details about the history of the choir and how the group went on to tour around the world. This document also gives the information that the University of North Texas Music Library maintains two rare Jaroff scores.
Date: 2015
Creator: Arnold, Donna M.
Partner: UNT Music Library
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The Diagnostic Possibilities of the California Test of Mental Maturity as Found in a Study of Academically Successful and Unsuccessful Students of Cleburne High School

Description: This problem is two-fold: first, to determine the relationships between the traditional school marks and the test scores made by the Cleburne High School students on the California Test of Mental Maturity as a means of estimating the academic achievement students probably will attain in particular school subjects; second, to determine whether or not such relationships are of sufficient significance that their use will reduce student failures in Cleburne High School.
Date: 1948
Creator: Arnold, E. Rex
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Study of Color Preferences of the Children in the Demonstration School of the North Texas State Teachers College

Description: This study was made in the Demonstration School of the North Texas State Teacher's College, using the children of Grades I to V inclusive as subjects of the investigation. The problem was taken to try to discover if children of a certain age group have definite color preferences and other related questions such as if these preferences remain constant, if they are influenced by other factors such as intelligence, sex, or grade, and if there is consistency noticeable in the preferences of a group… more
Date: August 1937
Creator: Bookman, Anne
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Accessibility and Authenticity in Julia Smith's Cynthia Parker

Description: In 1939, composer Julia Smith's first opera Cynthia Parker dramatized the story of a Texas legend. Smith manipulated music, text, and visual images to make the opera accessible for the audience in accordance with compositional and institutional practices in American opera of the 1930s. Transparent musical themes and common Native Americans stereotypes are used to define characters. Folk music is presented as diegetic, creating a sense of authenticity that places the audience into the opera's We… more
Date: December 2007
Creator: Buehner, Katie R.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Weeding Out the Undesirables: the Red Scare in Texas Higher Education, 1936-1958

Description: When the national Democratic Party began to transform to progressive era politics because of the New Deal, conservative reactionaries turned against the social welfare programs and used red scare tactics to discredit liberal and progressive New Deal Democrat professors in higher education. This process continued during the Second World War, when the conservatives in Texas lumped fascism and communism in order to anchor support and fire and threaten professors and administrators for advocating o… more
Date: August 2014
Creator: Bynum, Katherine E.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Oral History Interview with Gerard Roland Vela, July 21, 2004

Description: Interview with Dr. Gerard Roland Vela, UNT Professor Emeritus of Microbiology. The interview includes Vela's personal experiences about childhood and education, serving in World War II-era U.S. Navy, having a fellowship at Harvard University, and joining the North Texas faculty in 1965. Additionally, Vela discusses his family history, his love of chemistry, genetics, and microbiology, the growing pains involved with transitioning North Texas into a research university, the construction of a res… more
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Date: July 21, 2004
Creator: Calderon, Roberto R. & Vela, Gerard Roland
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[University Day: Name Change]

Description: Video footage of the celebration of the name change of the North Texas State University to the University of North Texas. Speeches are given by then President, Dr. Alfred F. Hurley, Mayor Ray Stephens, a representative from Ernst and Whinney, and Dr. James L. Rogers.
Date: May 6, 1988
Duration: 21 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Center for Media Production
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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A Study of Relationships Between Sociometric Scores and Personality Self-Ratings

Description: There is at present no way to tell what the correlations between personality self-rating scores and sociometric scores. One might suppose, as a rule of thumb, that such a correlation would be higher than .50 in most groups. This relationship, between sociometric scores and scores on personality self-rating scales, is the subject under investigation in the present study.
Date: 1949
Creator: Christy, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Art as a Tool in a Fifth-Grade Guidance Program

Description: The purpose of this thesis was to determine a way by which the school could best serve all the children in the capacity of guidance. A program was needed which would enrich the lives of children of widely varying social and financial levels, chronological ages, mental ages, personalities, talents, and other inherent traits or tendencies.
Date: 1946
Creator: Collins, Winny
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Comparison of Student and Teacher Objectives at Brantley-Draughon College, Fort Worth, Texas

Description: This study involves three things: first, a comparison of the general objectives of students and teachers; second, a comparison of jobs wanted by students with jobs for which the teachers think they are training their students; and third, a comparison of student and teacher objectives in the individual subjects.
Date: 1947
Creator: Cox, Kenneth
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Women in the Foreign Service: A Case Study of Margaret Parx Hays, 1942-1964

Description: This project seeks to include the historical significance of women in the Foreign Service and subsequently the United States Department of State between 1942 and 1964. Using the life and experience of Margaret Parx Hays, one of fewer than three hundred female foreign service officers before 1960, this study explores the importance of examining women at the "ground level." This narrative examines the life of Hays at several different duty stations and her experience navigating a male-dominant wo… more
Date: December 2019
Creator: Craig, Maddison L.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Oral History Interview with C. M. ("Hank") Hudspeth, May 3, 1993

Description: Interview with Hank Hudspeth, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences as a cryptographer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Hudspeth discusses his assignment to COMSOPAC at Noumea in New Caledonia, the intricacies of sending and receiving various classifications of coded messages, and the ambush of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's plane in 1943.
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Date: May 3, 1993
Creator: Daniels, John & Hudspeth, C. M.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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A Study to Determine the Need for and Interest in a Vocational Industrial Education Program in the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw School District

Description: This study was made to gather information and data to aid the administration of the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw School District in making a decision as to whether a vocational industrial education program was needed and if so what courses should be included.
Date: January 1967
Creator: Dennis, Thomas E.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Oral History Interview with Sarah Law Kennerly, February 1, 1992

Description: Interview with Sarah Law Kennerly, a librarian who worked at the University of North Texas when it was known at North Texas State College and North Texas State University. Kennerly discusses her background and education, development of library services at UNT, library-related courses, and changes that occurred over time.
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Date: February 1, 1992
Creator: Dickey, Richard & Kennerly, Sarah Law
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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A Chemical, Physical, and Biological Investigation of the Total Suspended and Dissolved Substances in Lake Dallas with Emphasis on Sanitation

Description: The purpose of this investigation is to determine the suspended organic matter and the total phosphorus in the waters of Lake Dallas and to evaluate these findings. Since organic matter floating in lakes is largely composed of minute plants, animals, and detritus derived from animals and plants, the fertilizing effect of phosphorus must be considered as an integral part of this problem.
Date: 1942
Creator: Eads, Ewin A.
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Students passing through Bruce Hall entrance]

Description: Photograph of students coming in and out of Bruce Hall's main entrance. They are both wearing backpacks, one is on their phone and the other is carrying a jacket. Above the entrance is a stone emblem that includes the initials "N.T.S.T.C.", which stands for the old name of the university 'North Texas State Teacher's College'.
Date: September 12, 2007
Creator: Elam, Mary
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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A Comparative Study of the Needs and Interests of the Students as Related to the Industrial Arts Curriculum of Highland Park Junior High School and Boude Storey Junior High School, Dallas, Texas

Description: The study sought answers to the following questions and aspects of the problem: 1. What are the interests of the students attending Highland Park and Boude Storey Junior High Schools who take industrial arts? 2. Do the present industrial arts programs of both schools encourage the development of hobbies for leisure-time activities? 3. Do the present programs provide a foundation for further vocational preparation? 4. Do the projects included in the present industrial arts curriculum encourage t… more
Date: 1952
Creator: Ellis, James C.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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