While still attempting to decide on a topic for a thesis study, the author was asked, "How far from the up- ports of a continuous-bean reinforced-concrete bridge should the reinforcing for negative moment extend into the spany." It was a simple question, and the reason for it being asked was that a particular structure, the one shown in the frontispiece, had developed transverse cracks in the surface of the deck structure a distance of three and a half feet from the center of both interior supports. (See the plan view in figure 6, Appendix.) The cracks were by no means wide. but rather of the type that one sees so often in reinforced- concrete structures, and would in themselves give no cause for alarm regarding the security of the bridge. The fact that they were somewhat asymmetrically located in the structure, however, would lead one to wonder whether or not there might be some slight structural defect in the bridge. To answer the question, the writer decided that an analysis of the structure in the region of the cracking we necessary. After procuring eet of the plans from which the bridge was built and obtaining the necessary data concerning the specifications under which it was designed,the investigation was begun.

One of the first important efforts at foreign missionary work by American churches was the conversion of the Hawaiian Islands, or Sandwich islands as they were commonly called in the early days of their discovery, the first missionaries to the islands had heard reports from traders and whalers and accounts from native youths as to conditions in the islands, and from these facts they had imagined what would await them upon their arrival. When they arrived at the islands, they found great changes had taken place, such great changes that to the missionaries they could only be explained as "miraculous" and the "work of God." These changes had been brought about almost entirely from contact with foreigners who had visited the islands since their discovery.

This thesis is an attempt to make use of as much technical knowledge as seems pertinent to a musician attempting to reproduce music with the utmost of realism and faithfulness to the original sound. The experiments and research that have gone into this thesis cover the years between 1940 and 1955, a period involving a world war and its many technical advancements, including the now commercially practical wire and tape recorders and the first laboratory development of a completely electronic recorder which has no moving parts and uses a film recording that can be reproduced as easily as a large photograph. In confronting such rapid technological development, the writer is convinced that the only lasting benefits this thesis might possess are toward furthering the education and conception of the musician and the technician in some of the physical, technical, musical, and psychological, problems which must be faced before reproduced music can be truly satisfying to the critical listener. The fact is that electronic technicians and engineers know too little about music and the musician knows too little about the science of electronics. It is this writer's opinion that each must study the other's field. The individuals who can achieve a fusion of the science of music reproduction and the art of music will approach the problems of dealing with musical sound with technical facility and musical sensitivity. [It is hoped that through this thesis the reader will be stimulated to pursue the subject still further.] The possibilities in the future are fascinating to consider, and there seem to be unlimited opportunities open to the enterprising individual in radio, television, the film industries, and the home.

The purpose of the study, based mainly on modern research, is to investigate the elements composing the transmission of Hellenic knowledge to the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates through Syriac and Arabic. The emphasis of the study is placed upon the period of the mid-800’s when the potently intellectual and cultural achievements of the most famous Abbasid capital, Baghdad, reached an unprecedented level of activity. One scholarly accomplishment built under the patronage of the Caliph al-Ma’mun was the Bayt al-Hikmat (House of Knowledge) where Syriac and Arabic translations from Greek texts were encouraged. The record of greatest output of accurate translations at the Bayt al-Hikmat was held by Hunayn ibn Ishaq and his school which flourished during the reign of al-Mutawakkil. Both earlier and later translating bodies will be discussed, but the concentration of the thesis lies upon Hunayn ibn Ishaq and his school of Baghdadi translators.

Some knowledge of the California School Law is presumed to be a part of the professional training of every teacher. A specific course in State School Administration and School Law in a prerequisite to the securing of an Administration Credential. The courses offered and the resultant use of the Education Code are not enough to make members of the teaching profession conversant with the many and varied aspects of legal restrictions and permissions concerning the California School System. The ordinary layman who has not had even the basis training in legal knowledge is even more inept at finding the law. Those who use the Code, therefore, find it necessary to search the Index of the Education Code in hope of finding the answer to the question confront- ing them. Few people who use the Education Code are so well versed in the law that they can find the information they seek without the help of and regular use of an Index. The Index, then, becomes a necessary tool for teachers and others in the field of Education.

Every lover of scripture takes a Bible for himself within our larger one. He may read the 60 books from a sense of duty or profit, but there are portions that he loves, which he reads time and again. Those are the Bible within the Bible that he has made for himself. Any Bible used long and effectively by one person has this story to tell. Torn edges, pencillngs, thumbmarks plentiful here, and large sections of clean pages there show what the owner may never have dreamed, that he has his personal edition of our common Bible. This is inevitable. And it is our highest tribute to the book of books.

China was already old in its own eyes by the year 221 B.C. To picture that age in its proper perspective, it will be necessary, for a while, to look backwards toward an even more distant time, adjusting sight onto a day when China was young, and with what memories still extant, try to reconstruct, uncovering and making clear, that complex which caused a dawn, one magnificent moment, to explode, brilliantly and deadly, into the day of the Legalist, fortunately brief, where a God reigned on high in the guise of cruel Law--and the People suffered...

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A musical score prepared in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degree.

A musical score prepared in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degree. The work was begun in September of 1951, and was completed in April of 1962. It is cast in three movements: fast, fugal style; slow, a variation-rondo; fast, sonata form. A closely knit structure is achieved through melodic and rhythmic relationships throughout. Thus, the second theme of the last movement is derived from the opening theme of the first movement; subsidiary material from movement one appears again as developmental material in movement two; the first phrase of the opening these in movement one is employed developmentally in the third movement.