This thesis has analyzed the more important works of Erich Kastner in order to prove that his literary effort is not designed merely to entertain, but rather that his foremost concern was that of a moralist and critic.The analysis has been divided into Kastner's works for children, his adult novel Fabian, die Geschichte eines "Noralisten, and his volumes of poetry, preceded by a brief biography of K.stner's life: his youth, his education, his years as a journalist and his later life. These different periods of Kastner's life have been examined in the light of formative factors which influenced his works.

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Thesis, 1983. / Bibliogr. p. 432-439.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 319-325).

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The purposes of the study were: (1) to investigate the characteristics of counseling services in small colleges; (2) to determine if counseling services at church-related colleges differed from those at other small colleges; (3) to determine whether formal counseling services were deemed necessary for small colleges to meet the needs usually met by counseling services at larger universities, as perceived by faculty members and students. The Counseling Services Survey (CSS) instrument was adapted from standard instruments and sent to the chief student personnel administrator at each college holding membership in The Council for the Advancement of Small Colleges. Eighty-seven CSS instruments were returned, nineteen from Roman Catholic Colleges, forty-four from Protestant colleges, and twenty-four from independent colleges. CSS responses were compared to answer research questions regarding the existence, specific services, and operation of counseling services in these colleges. The Perceptions of Counseling Services (PCS) form was designed as an instrument for finding the perceptions by students, faculty, counselors, and administrator, regarding the availability, quality, and source of counseling for seven general problem areas. Thirty-seven CSS respondents administered the PCS in their colleges, twenty-nine of which had formal counseling services, and eight of which did not have formal counseling services. Results from the CSS study indicated that, with several minor variations on specific services, the existence of a formal counseling service along with its services and operation were not a function of institutional affiliation. Results from the PCS study showed that students and faculty members at colleges with formal counseling services generally perceived help for various problems to be available and to be of high quality more frequently than did respondents from colleges without formal counseling services. Also, counselors and administrators more frequently perceived most types of counseling help to be available and to be of high quality than did students and faculty members. / Ed D.

Already popular with the general reading public, nonfiction can have a viable place in the English curriculum. However, in order to increase teacher as well as student enthusiasm for exploring this genre, nonfiction selections chosen for study in the English class must take into consideration student reading interests. Unfortunately research offers little guidance in delineating adolescent preferences in relation to nonfiction, although a considerable number of studies assess adolescent responses to fiction. Subsequently, whether the nonfiction chosen for study in the English program is compatible with adolescent reading interests is a question generally unanswered. In an attempt to provide a basis for answering the question concerning how the nonfiction reading required of adolescents compares with their reading preferences, this study suggests a criteria checklist for assessing the content components of nonfiction selections. Derived primarily from reading interest research related to fiction, categories on the checklist are limited to those logically applicable to the content characteristics of nonfiction. Further, based on the assumption that most of the nonfiction read by adolescents in the English class is anthologized, this study analyzes the content components of twelve leading anthologies recommended for the eighth grade in terms of their correspondence to the suggested criteria. Since research indicates that reading interests of students typically span two grades in either direction, the choice of the eighth grade as the focal point of this study allows generation of implications relevant to the total junior high school experience. Results contingent upon the assessment of the one hundred seven nonfiction selections in terms of reading interests are displayed in content analysis tables. Findings indicate that twenty of the thirty-two criteria upon which each selection was evaluated show compatibility with less than one-half of the nonfiction excerpts examined. Other data reveal little variety in the type of nonfiction sub-genres anthologized, with autobiography appearing most frequently, and in the sources--book, magazine, newspaper--from which the selections are extrapolated, with the book represented most often. A number of implications are engendered by this study. Primarily the implications concern reading interest research related to nonfiction, criteria for assessing nonfiction in terms of reading preferences, reading interests of junior high school pupils, types of nonfiction recommended for junior high school students and the place of nonfiction in the English curriculum. / Ed. D.

This study was designed to analyze the administrative relationship between the presidents and chief business officials in the twenty-three community colleges. The purposes of the study were two-fold. The first purpose was to determine actions and activities of the chief business officials which purportedly increased the effectiveness of the presidents; and actions and activities of the chief business officials which purportedly decreased the effectiveness of the presidents. The second purpose was to compare the presidents' rankings with the chief business officials' rankings of those operational areas and actions of the chief business officials which were most important to their administrative relationship. A questionnaire was mailed to twenty-three presidents and twenty-three chief business officials in the survey. Upon the return of the questionnaires from ninety-one per cent of the sample, the data were recorded and analyzed. The findings from the study provided evidence that the Virginia community college chief business officials were performing more actions beneficial to their administrative relationship with the presidents than actions of a detrimental nature. It was also evident that the Virginia community college presidents and chief business officials differed in their rankings of the general operational areas most important and least important in their administrative relationship. The operational area most important in the administrative relationship between the Virginia community college presidents and chief business officials, as reported by the presidents, was that of business department administration. The operational area least important was that of board relations. The chief business officials reported that the operational area most important was that of communications. · The chief business officials reported the operational area of public relations as the least important area. The Virginia community college presidents and chief business officials, in ranking the actions within the general operational areas, were more in agreement than disagreement as to the actions of the chief business officials which were most important and least important to their administrative relationship. The findings supported the conclusion that the variables size of community college and age, academic training, length of time in present position, and years of administrative experience of the presidents, in most instances, did not have a significant effect on the presidents' rankings of the operational areas in the administrative relationship between the Virginia community college presidents and chief business officials. / Ed. D.

Given a G-invariant family of distributions and under suitable hypotheses concerning G, we characterize the form of G-equivariant estimators. In fact, corresponding to each G-equivariant estimator is an appropriate G-invariant function and conversely. In the course of characterizing the G-equivariant estimators, we obtain two maximal invariant functions. Some properties of these functions are obtained and in particular we calculate their densities with respect to an appropriate Haar measure. Finally, we consider an invariant estimator problem, the problem of estimating the orbit of a parameter. It is seen that this invariant problem may be referred back to an equivariant one. A loss function for the invariant problem is defined in such a way that the minimumr risk invariant estimator corresponds to the minimumr risk equivariant estimator within a subclass of all equivariant estimators. / Ph. D.