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Call number: LD2668 .T4 1957 M15 / Master of Science

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007. / Abstract and vita. Includes final project proposal. Description based on Print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 166-171, 39-42).

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1961 M4

Master of Arts / Department of History / Sue Zschoche / In the United States, legal authorities well into the 20th century wanted to maintain the integrity of the marriage union; therefore, early divorce laws made it difficult to get divorced. When two individuals, a man and a woman, signed a marriage contract, their identities as two individuals became secondary to their identities as husband and wife. The “unit” established by the marriage was now a matter of public interest and of greater social importance than either individual. Legally, legislatures writing the laws and the courts enforcing them therefore did their best to maintain this unit. When one member of the unit petitioned for divorce, in effect they were claiming the actions of the other member of the unit had violated the legal and sacred bonds of that unit. In the late 19th century, western states, including Kansas began to make more liberal provisions for divorce. This study will examine those liberal divorce laws in Kansas with a particular focus on women who, like the Populist orator Mary Elizabeth Lease, used the law to protect their individual property interests in a marriage. Though such women were by no means the majority of women who sought divorce, their cases highlight a growing controversy in late nineteenth century Kansas over the state’s provisions for divorce. The openness of the state’s divorce laws allowed individuals, including female individuals, to use the law for their own purposes. Faced with the staggering increase in the Kansas divorce rate by the end of the century, some judges complained that the law did not adequately protect the state’s interest in preserving marital unions. To date, the historiography on divorce has focused on nation-wide trends. By focusing on Kansas law and the experience of women in the north central part of the state, this study seeks to open up an analysis, not just of the law, but of how individuals used the law. Chapter One includes a discussion on the evolution of divorce law in the United States. Chapter Two focuses on Kansas law and examines the uses that two particular women made of that law to act on their own behalf. Chapter Three examines the growing controversy in the late nineteenth century Kansas regarding the rising divorce rate and uses a controversial Clay County case to highlight some of the judicial concerns about the “abuses” of the law.

Biological monitoring and land use data analysis were performed for a small (79,800 acre) watershed in west-central Indiana. A model was developed between Hilsenhoff biotic index and percentage of water (volume) draining through forestland at each sample site (R2.92, P < .002). This water volume model was found to explain more of the variation in biological integrity than USEPA and Ohio EPA habitat assessment methods, as well as, a land use model based upon percentage watershed surface area. Based on this water volume model, maps were created depicting regions within the watershed that had the greatest potential to damage water quality. Land acquisition/conversion projects based upon these maps should improve biological integrity/water quality more efficiently (requiring less land acquisition/conversion, and therefore lowering project costs, while increasing water quality benefits). / Department of Biology

This study documents the occurrence of dinoflagellate, chlorophyte, and acritarch cysts from the Upper Cretaceous upper Cusseta, Ripley, and lower Providence Formations in the USGS Fort Gaines core, drilled in Clay County, Georgia. A total of 75 taxa were identified, consisting of 36 genera, 61 species, and 5 subspecies of dinoflagellates, 3 genera and 4 species of chlorophytes, 3 genera and 4 species of acritarchs, and 1 problematical protozoan. 15 of these taxa are unpublished. The study's cyst assemblage was statistically analyzed to ascertain paleoecologic patterns. The results from cluster analysis and detrended correspondence analysis indicate the presence of four cyst associations. The <i>Deflandrea pannucea</i> association is interpreted as indicative of low salinity related to nearby river discharge. The <i>Deflandrea</i> sp. A association is confined to the inner shelf. The <i>Exochosphaeridium bifidum</i> and <i>Glaphyrocysta reticulosa</i> associations alternate under normal marine conditions. The associations correlate well with observed lithologies and lithologic change. Comparison of this study's assemblage with other Late Cretaceous assemblages provides limited information, since many biostratigraphically-important species are not present in this study. However, comparisons with Wilson's (1974), Benson's (1976), and Firth's (1984) zonations suggest a Lower Maastrichtian age for all strata in this study. / M.S.

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007. / Abstract and vita. Includes final project proposal. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 166-171, 39-42).

"This study shows three things: (1) a precedent for the expenditure of public funds to teach electricity in our public high schools has already been established by the school system in the larger school systems of Texas, (2) the rural families living on electrified farms in the North Texas area want instruction of this type given to the boys and girls in their communities, and (3) both the rural people and the professional people of the North Texas area believe that instruction dealing with the use of electricity and electrical equipment had spread until by 1935 more than twenty-one million homes, about eighty percent of the total in America at that time, were electrified, only eleven American farms out of every 100 had central-station electricity. More than five million American farms lacked electric service. "--leaf 50.